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Settings Page

• Notification Schedule
• Export all statuses
• Include Byline in Body
• Use Author for Empty Byline
• Alternative image export option
• Export only filename for images – removes image blocks
• Export image title for XML node

• Limit number of editions to view in export panel
• Send notification emails to
• Export Format
• Disable images on export
• Use image title as filename
• Use XML Ad Sheet
• FTP Backup Settings

Notification Schedule

Set the options for when to receive update emails (the destination email address is set below):

• On the export screen
• When articles are saved
• Every X minutes

Export all statuses

This toggle will make available articles of any status (draft, scheduled, etc.) for export, instead of being limited to published content.

Include Byline in Body

Depending on how your InDesign template is built, this option allows for the inclusion of the Byline field from an article to be in it’s own XML tag or inserted at the top within the Body tag.

Use Author for Empty Byline

Toggle this on to use the Author field of an article if there is no Byline present.

Export Format

We are demonstrating the InDesign XML option in this walkthrough, but the NewsCycle NITF format is available for those who need it.

Disable images on export

Use this option if you would like to only download the text article content, i.e. just the XML file, if you would like to add images directly from your computer. This is good for instances where separate color management needs to be done for print services.

Use image title as filename

This option can be very useful if images in your media library have default camera-assigned filenames, such as IMG00034034.jpg.

Export only filename for images – removes image blocks

Images are included in the XML at the end of each story element. If this option is toggled OFF, images be wrapped in a paragraph tag similar to the option for including Bylines in the body tag. This can be useful if you will be using different or altered versions of images instead of those on the website.

</story-225816-body>
<graphic-driving-development-1>
<image href="file:///driving-development-1.jpg" />
<caption aid:cstyle="" aid:pstyle="Photo Caption RD">
 St. Ignace has not seen many high-capacity housing projects in recent decades, with the St. Ignace Senior Housing apartment complex on Lake Street remaining as one of the newer ones Thursday, April 24, 2025.
</caption>
</graphic-driving-development-1>

</story-225816-body>
<story-225816-image-placeholders><p>driving-development-1.jpg</p>
<p aid:cstyle="" aid:pstyle="Photo Caption RD"> St. Ignace has not seen many high-capacity housing projects in recent decades, with the St. Ignace Senior Housing apartment complex on Lake Street remaining as one of the newer ones Thursday, April 24, 2025.</p>

Export Page

• Edition
• Category
• Export
• Include Ads
• Include titles in article root
• Character Styles
• Paragraph Styles

Edition

Select the edition for export. A search field allows you to filter the list for convenience.

Category

Choose a single category from the selected edition for export.

Export

You can export all content from the selected edition/category or choose to only include changes since the last export.

Include Ads

If you are posting display ads (or they are extracted as part of our full-service process), these can be included in the export for layout along with the article content for the edition. Display ads themselves are not associated with a particular edition, so this option will include all currently running display ads on the site. Note these are NOT the ads managed by AdRotate Pro, i.e. manually placed banner and tile ads.

Include titles in article root

Toggle this options to include the article headline in each story tag in the exported XML.

<story-225816-Driving-Development>

<story-225816-title aid:cstyle="" aid:pstyle="Headline Sans RD">Driving Development</story-225816-title>

<story-225816>

<story-225816-title aid:cstyle="" aid:pstyle="Headline Sans RD">Driving Development</story-225816-title>

Text Styles

You can specify style attributes for the main elements that will be exported:

Character Styles are used less often, but allow you to target styles at the word or character level in your InDesign template. In this context it is still applied to the entire element (e.g. Heading), so we recommend using Paragraph styles in most situations.

Paragraph Styles should always be used as these styles are applied to the individual article elements.

For either style group, the name of a style supplied on the export page should match the corresponding style in your InDesign template by name. This ensures that when dragging content from the Structure panel, all relevant styles will be applied automatically.

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