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6. Marketing & digital publications

Full-fledged reader app within another website (IFRAME)

If the number of readers of digital publication is important to you, strongly consider using, besides the application for Android and iOS, also the web platform Triobo. Thanks to the web platform anyone can look inside magazines or catalogues even without installation (and using just ordinary computer); the platform can also be used to share individual articles (pages) on social sites etc.

There is also a way that allows the web form of a publication to be viewed on a different website. Example? You have certainly seen a YouTube video embedded into an online blog, this is basically the same. In our case, you can for example have a window with the newest issue of your company magazine in the middle of an article on your company website. The reader can flip through this magazine directly, the icon for enlarging the window to full screen is also present (in the top-right corner).

Note: we offer a trivial version with less functionality too, probably more appropriate – given the way how it is displayed – for promotion of paid publications. More in a separate tutorial.

All you need to do is insert a simple HTML code to your website, for example:

<iframe style="width:768px; height:512px; border: 0px none;" src="https://casopis.finmag.cz" allowFullScreen="true" webkitAllowFullScreen="true"></iframe>

You can freely change the parameters (particularly the size of the window). Insert the web address of your digital magazine or catalogue into the parameter SRC. The result can be seen below:

What are your options?

1) The reader application is being displayed in the same way as the application on tablet or on website – the opening page is overview of all published issues. This variant can be seen on the example above.

2) The opening page is a specific issue page or specific published issue (that is you skip the overview of all published issues). Simply change the parameter SRC by inserting the web address of a specific page. This can be useful for example for the preview of cited issue page.

The way in which the webpage is displayed – being displayed in reduced size so that it can be viewed fully even without scrolling, or being displayed without reducing size at the cost of having to scroll – is based on the settings of your web export. You can adjust this in Triobo editor.

Code example:

<iframe style="width:768px; height:512px; border: 0px none;" src="https://www.south-moravia.online/moravia-convention-bu/brno-exhibition-centre-characteristics-/" allowFullScreen="true" webkitAllowFullScreen="true"></iframe>

The specific page will open:

3) The opening page is the first page of the last published issue (the last published issue is chosen automatically at the given moment). For this you must use the following parameter ?action=opennewestissue, which you insert into the SRC.

The resulting code looks for example like this:

<iframe style="width:768px; height:400px; border: 0px none;" src="https://casopis.finmag.cz/?action=opennewestissue" allowFullScreen="true" webkitAllowFullScreen="true"></iframe>

The first page of the last published issue will open:

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2. Triobo editor

Publication creating and editing

A new entry may added by pressing Plus button at the bottom of the list whether it is a new publication, issue or article. New dialog is opened, where you can fill desired publication properties, issue or article. Similar dialog can be later opened for existing item via icon [i] in front of row.

First, create new publication. Name it (for example, My Monthly) and also fill out an appropriate description. Select the languages you want to publish (multilingual publications are included in the Triobo Professional tariff only). Complete the publication’s website and logo. All this information is important for the correct presentation of the publication on Triobo Portal. Triobo Portal also works as an e-shop when you later want to sell magazines or subscriptions using payment cards.

New publication

When you save the new publication, you will automatically open it. Since there are no issues in the publication yet, the Default issue values dialog will appear. Here you can make it easier to work by pre-defining the values to be used for each new issue.

Especially, you can decide how you want to add new issues. For easy and fast import from PDF, you can use the Import PDF option. If you create content in Triobo, select Create Content. Of course, you can leave the default choice, clicking Plus will always ask you how to create the new issue.

Under Availability, select whether you want to have a free, paid, locked, or hidden issue as your default (you will always be able to change your choice when creating new issue). For non-free editions, choose the Product Id pattern – if you use #### in the pattern, the Triobo editor will always try to replace the numbers correctly. It will first find the highest number used and it will increase by one.

If you use, for example, com.mycompany.mymonthly.####, then for the first time the value com.mycompany.mymonthly.1801 will be used – 18 according to the current year 2018. If the product code com.mycompany.mymonthly.1805 already exists, then the new issue automatically gets the code com.mycompany.mymonthly.1806.

If you are numbering ProductIds regardless of year, you can use the example com.mycompany.mymonthly.## – if the editor finds the highest product code com.mycompany.mymonthly.56, it will create the new com.mycompany.mymonthly.57 automatically.

Tip: More about ProductIds in article Purchases

For paid editions, you can also pre-set the price on the web – beware, it is only a price at Triobo Portal for a credit card purchase straight. You need to set the price on iOS or Android devices at individual markets (iTunesConnect/GooglePlay). The Easy Purchase option you will use later if you decide for this unique Triobo option.

If you want to use PDF imports, you can define default import values. See Digital replica of paper publication in three minutes

Default issues values

Tip: You can change the Default issue values later: If you look at the issues list, the Properties button at the top right opens the Publishing Properties dialog. This is similar to the dialog for creating new publications, but there are other options on the right where you can find the Default Issue Values button.

Save the default values and you are ready to create your first issue, see Creating and editing issues

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2. Triobo editor

Articles division to issues and publications

Your work in a Triobo publishing editor is logically divided into three levels.

  1. The highest ranked is the publication (Publication), typically the specific magazine. For each publication a common list of fonts is established. Later, when you want to publish in your own reader for tablets, it will be connected to just one publication.
  2. Publications may be further broken down to issues (Issues). Typical monthly periodical has therefore 12 issues per year. If your publication is a catalog, individual editions can be either the copies of it (spring, summer, fall …) or perhaps the subcategories (kitchen, bedroom, garden …). For each issue exists a common set of colors (color palette) and font formating styles. Each edition also represents an essential commercial element from the readers point of view- your reader may download single issues and read them in the reader (whether for free or for a fee). Triobo Single reader enables publishing of just single issue.
  3. Single editions then contain articles (Articles). Each article bears also other properties beside its name (author, section …) and the actual content as well. The reader further proceeds from left to right after opening of edition. If the article is larger than the size of display he may scroll downwards to further content.