Creating Topics

Presentations can include new and/or existing topic objects. Each topic represents a slide and should be based on one of the two presentation Topic Templates - Slide Title or Slide.

Perhaps a good way of describing when you would use the two templates, is to compare the presentation to a physical book's cover and pages. The cover (front and back) is designed so it attracts your attention and gives you the name and author of the book, and maybe a little information about the book. It's the pages themselves that contain the real information.

With a presentation, the Slide Title is similar to the cover of a book. The Slide Title creates a visually distinct beginning and end. This visual distinction is even more useful with unattended slide shows, because there's no presenter or audio clues to work from.

Topics based on the Slide template are used for the presentation's information. They continue the presentation's design theme, but allow the content to be clearly displayed.

The templates specify one of two media objects (Presentation Title and Presentation Slide) each using its own custom HTML template and style sheet during publishing.

To Create a Topic:

1. Select the folder you want the topic to be created in.
2. Open the Book in the Editor. On the Book Contents Toolbar select the drop-down arrow next to the New Topic button, then choose a template to base your topic on (either Slide or Slide Title).