In-Process Links

In-process links are content that is approved and finalized; they cannot be directly modified in the DMS. In-process links can be reused between documents and submissions/regions as well as automatically reconciled between document versions.

These links can be:

— Created in a final, non-editable PDF

— Retargeted in a final or draft document

Ennov InSight enables you to insert, modify, and delete in-process links and bookmarks in documents that are assigned to assembly leafs from Ennov InSight . Ennov InSight uses a database-centric approach to manage both life cycle links and links found in documents assigned to an assembly.

Ennov InSight also enables you to link to a leaf, document, or a bookmark of a document from the previous sequence.

Link to a document in a previous sequence is not updated if there is a newer copy of target document in current assembly. If target is not valid, links become broken and do not appear in the output. It reflects in Link Inspector, thereby allowing to select an appropriate target.

When creating an in-process link it is possible to restrict the presence of the in-process link to an application. Not imposing any restriction makes the in-process links appear for all copies of source document in the system.

Ennov InSight Publisher 7.3 In-Process Links

After a document is assigned to a leaf in an assembly, the linking information is extracted, stored, and manipulated in a secure database. Ennov InSight publishes a temporary rendition (called an in-process rendition) of each document in PDF format. You can use this viewable copy of the rendition prior to publication to create new links or modify links created during the authoring stage and target them to other locations in the current submission.

When editing links in an in-process document rendition, only changes to links are stored in Ennov InSight . While Acrobat enables you to change other items (text, bookmarks, etc.), they are not saved.

Note: In-process linking with Linking plug-in (PDF) in Ennov InSight is enabled by using the supported versions of Acrobat. Be sure to select the system viewer option (Acrobat) when opening a document for in-process linking, not the Web browser's viewing option. See the Linking plug-in (PDF) 1.8 System Support Document (SSD) for details.

Create In-Process Links

To use in-process linking, your assembly must be a standalone assembly, a sequence assembly, or a working assembly that has not been locked and lifecyled.

To create an in-process link, a PDF rendition must exist, and the document must be prepared for linking.

— You can request that a particular document in the assembly tree be rendered and then be prepared for linking. — You can select a folder or the assembly root and indicate that all documents be prepared for linking. — You can specify the link applicability for new links to Global or Application.

A temporary PDF rendition is created when a document is prepared, and you can use Linking plug-in (PDF) to create links. The rendition is only available in the assembly for creating and modifying links prior to publishing. Also, you can only create links in in-process renditions. Any text modifications made in an in-process rendition will not be saved.

The standard Ennov InSight tool for creating and modifying links in PDF documents is Linking plug-in (PDF). When creating or modifying in-process links using Linking plug-in (PDF), if you want to create an internal link to a different page of the current document, you must choose the current document in the assembly tree as your destination with a different page number. Linking plug-in (PDF) defaults to the current document to make this easier.

Comment Links

A comment link is a placeholder for a link to a document that does not yet exist in an assembly.

The comment reminds publishers that a link must be created once the document exists. You can create comment links using Linking plug-in (PDF).