You can link article text elements to frames on a page at any time - even while the text element is being edited by another user.

Linking connects content to page shapes (geometry) and allows to users to perform editing-to-fit, or to apply the copy-fitting.

You can link an article to a page by a drag & drop of the article from a directory listing onto frames, or using the Fred4 command that prompts the user to select an article.

Alert on geometry change

If modifications have been made to the geometry of a text being edited, (e.g. linked/unlinked from frames, or frames have been modified), or the format of the text was changed, the user who is editing the text, receives an update when the page is saved. The update is handled by the GN4 Alerts. See Explicit notification on geometry change for the instructions about more visible notification.

Permissions

Any article residing in a folder can be linked to the page, provided that the user has read access to the folder. It is not possible to link one article to pages belonging to different editions, unless their layers use different regions.

Linking and TedExtra

TedExtra in the version 2.4 offers the possibility to link articles to the shapes on a page opened in TedExtra. The link, unlink and relink operations are covered. This requires a new keyword in the EditorialConfig: TEPEnableLink="true".