Hey OL Techs and support folks! I’m wondering, what are the features you think are most overlooked or under-utilized? Things the userbase might have missed as Designer evolved from search-and-replace to CSS selectors to Handlebars? Should more of us be using snippets? I think I’ve only used Snippets once, to make an external HTML “contact info” page shared across multiple templates. What are other use cases?
I use snippets a lot for our outgoing emails. I use an external one for email footer which is standard accross our emails.
I use internal ones for uses across multiples section. Prevent from repeating the same all over.
Handlebars should be the norm as of now as it removes a lot of “server side” scripts.
I like the idea of batching output files. But the order of which you setup the output creation is very strange. For example, You select print, what that does is create the output file, batch the output file then impose the file(s). I wish there was a way to set the order of production options.
An example of the order would be:
- Add additional content
- Sepatation - split into batches
- Impose those batches
- etc
But now its not how you would think it does. It will add the additional content, then impose then do the final batch splitting. Which is not the ideal way. Maybe make it a table which you can move up and down the order of operation.
I think this would be nice to be looked into.
I’m currently auditing all my client’s templates for common elements, which I plan to convert to external HTML snippets. Then I’ll develop a web interface for editing those, so that the legal department can alter the text/contents themselves (currently they have to submit textual changes in a Jira ticket, and I have to edit every affected template). Moving to externally-maintained external snippets will add a lot of efficiency.