This section covers information specific to the green publication hierarchy in STEP and the publication objects that it contains. This hierarchy is used when working with publications. For general object maintenance information (applicable to all object types rather than specific to publication objects), refer to the All Objects topic in the 'Object Maintenance' section of the Getting Started documentation here.
Before generating InDesign pages from STEP through any of the Print Publisher components—Print Publisher (standard 'drag and drop'), Print Flatplanner, Print AutoPage, or in a publishing Web UI—it is necessary to build a publication hierarchy (green hierarchy) in the STEP Workbench.
The topics in this section describe how to manually create the necessary objects in the Tree that compose a standard publication hierarchy. Instructions are also included for duplicating a publication and linking products, assets, and classifications to nodes (publications and sections) in the publication hierarchy.
Before creating any of the objects detailed in this section, you must first ensure that all relevant object types for the publication hierarchy have been created in System Setup. Instructions on how to create and configure these object types are detailed in the Creating a Standard Publication Object Type Hierarchy section of the System Setup documentation
A publication hierarchy can also be built by importing a STEPXML or Publication Excel file. Details on these more automated methods of creating a publication hierarchy are not included in this section. For more information, refer to the following sections of the Publisher (Adobe InDesign Integration) documentation: