Using different grids on different layers of the same page

Build 1501 on 14/Nov/2017  This topic last edited on: 2/Sep/2014, at 11:17

It is pretty common that the advertising department operates on a different page grid that the editorial department, e.g. advertising uses 10-column page grid, while editorial uses 8-column page grid.

The possible request is that on the same page, the editorial staff needs to see only a grid with 8 columns, while the advertising staff wants to see only the 10-column grid.

Although Fred4 features two grids (a master page grid, and a local page grid), and although you can set one of them to be 8 columns, and another to be 10 columns, this is not a solution, as you cannot hide the master grid while displaying the layer grid and opposite.

But there's a possible temporary workaround, and we will explain it on the below example.

1. The editorial user USER1 opens the page 23. Let's assume that the editorial layer gets checked-out automatically, and that a master page named "8col" is already applied to the page 23. Thus, the editorial user does not have to carry any additional step to work on 8-columns page grid.
2. The advertisement user USER2 opens the same page 23, and checks out the Ads layer. Initially, the grid displays 8-columns. But, now, the user applies the master page "10cols". On his PC, the page is displayed on the 10-columns grid.

In this way, two users are seeing different grids on the different layers of the same page. But beware - manual or automatic page refresh on the workstation of the USER1, may display the 10-columns page grid. Should this happen, simply reselect again the master page you want.