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Display The Front Page On The Home Page

• Publishers want to display a thumbnail of the front page on their website.– to promote an e-edition.– to promote a mobile edition.– to promote the print product.

• Some publishers have found a way but it is often cumbersome and tedious.

• Some publishers use a static thumbnail that is not “today’s” page.

• Some publishers do nothing but they want to.

Display The Front Page On The Home Page

Display The Front Page On The Home Page

• This is a technique for handling that need.• Outputting to a special Output Profile updates the thumbnail

on the website.• The setup includes:

– create an Output Profile that creates a PDF with a destination of Refresh News Media;

– create a “placeholder” PDF in the News Media database. This will be used if the daily PDF is not available. In my example this PDF is named PageOnePlaceholder;

– add some .CSP code to your website• the .CSP code uses <dti:sql> tags to choose the PDF

based upon the Output Filename.In my example that is 01_06_09 P-News-1--.pdf.

Display The Front Page On The Home Page

User sends A1 to anOutput Profile called PageOneForWebsite.

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Web user loads page where A1 is to be displayed.

A PDF is createdand dropped into

Refresh News Media.

Display The Front Page On The Home Page

• CSP Code on the web page makes a decision:

1. Does News Media exist for today based upon site’s output filename pattern?a. YES? Display it!b. NO? Continue…

2. Does News Media exist for a placeholder?a. YES? Display it!b. NO? Display nothing.