Usage History

Purpose of the plugin

The Usage History is a tool which can display all the information about the respective linked assets on a page for InDesign documents.

Access the plugin via

Tools → Usage History

Possible usage of the plugin

The Usage History can be used in:

  • AdvancedSearch page plugin

  • AssetView function plugin

  • FormBasedSearch page plugin

  • FSNavigation page plugin

  • ImageEditor function plugin

Preconditions

To be able to use the Usage History, a view with InDesign documents should be available.

Supported plugins

The Usage History supports the following plugins:

  • Asset View content plugin

  • Product View function plugin

  • ShellScript Execution function plugin

  • Detail content plugin

  • Table content plugin

General configuration

The configuration of Usage History includes the following parts:

Tab name Description Note

Views and Functions

On this page the user can define which functions should be shown on the UI client.

See more details 'Views and Functions'

Javascript

On this page the user can enter a use case-specific JS script into the configuration to do project-specific automation.

See more details 'Javascript'

Usages

On this page the user can see the relations of the Usage History tool to other plugins.

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Localizations

On this page the user can localize his/her own Usage History tool to see wished terms in the UI of Usage History.

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History

On this page the user can overview all modifications made in Usage History tool and have an initial state available as a file to understand who, when and what changed within the configuration.

See more details 'History tab of the plugin instances'

Roles and Access

On this page the user can restrict the access to the plugin for certain roles.

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Figure 1. The configuration structure of the Usage History tool

Appearance in the frontend

All details of the Usage History in the frontend can be found here.

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