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I've built a presentation for a client for use by his 50 independent dealers when they're in front of customers.

The dealers can each fill in their phone, address, web & email details from a utility screen.

The details are stored as variables, and written to disk files - single text files in Windows temp, and are displayed as various points during the presentation.

All works fine.

Now the client wants a version that each dealer can post to his customers as a stand alone presentation.

So I figure I'll remove the utility screen, and have the text read straight from a .txt file in the publication directory, which the dealer could fill in before burning to CD and posting.

But that means I'll have 6 separate text files (phone, web, fax, address etc etc )

I know this will work, but is there a more elegant way of doing it? But one that's still foolproof to the dealer trying to type in his details?

Thanks, Linda

Hi Linda,

Probably multiple, simple ways to do this.

Most 'user friendly' approach I can think of is to create a separate Opus pub... that acts as a FORM. Fill out these fields.

That pub can then write all information to one text file... and you always know the layout or schema of that file. Read first line is name of dealership. second line is phone or whatever, etc. Simply have them move or copy that file to the appropriate Opus folder that your presentation pub uses. (or maybe the utility pub does that "save file" process too).

Cheers.