Cannot Find Resource Manager

[David in Mississippi]

I need to use the Resource Manager - I'm in Publisher 2.04

Every help article says it should be under the DOCUMENT menu, but it's not there.

 

I have looked on all the other menus, and finally found it under the WINDOW menu. Please update all your documentation and help files to reflect this change.

[Callum]

Hi David,

From my in app help here the information is correct. Were you accidentally viewing the 1.0 help?

Thanks
C

[David in Mississippi]

Thanks, Callum. I think you're right. It was not evident to me which version the web-based help file was for. I tried the in-app help file, but when I searched for Resource Manager, the only thing I found was how to USE it, not how to FIND it.

It would be good if the first line in any help article would describe how to get to the item being discussed.

But I have found it now and will remember it.

I wonder if it would be possible to update the web-base 1.# help file to reflect the difference to 2.#? Just thinking out loud here about how to avoid confusion for others.

Hopefully there will be in a near future upgrade the capability to allow us to batch-process listings in the Resource Manager, for example to change all or multiple selected resources from Linked to Embedded or vice-versa.

Thanks for your response and take care.

[walt.farrell]

7 minutes ago, David in Mississippi said:

I tried the in-app help file, but when I searched for Resource Manager, the only thing I found was how to USE it, not how to FIND it.

If you search for Resource Manager in the In-App Help for Publisher 2 on Windows, the first hit is for the Resource Manager page. It starts out describing its function and then about halfway down the page there's a section on using it. Perhaps, as you suggest, where to find it should be first. Personally, I think I like the ordering of (a) what is it then (b) where to find it and how to use it.

[David in Mississippi]

2 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

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...and then about halfway down the page there's a section on using it.

As much as I hate to admit this, I fear I have been a victim of TLDR syndrome. Not just for the in-app help file, but for ALL the info in the web-0based hep site, and all the rest of the info that comes up when you search for this topic on a search engine.

Thanks for your inputs, Walt. Even though I still feel the "How to get there" element should be the first item on a description (how to use it) page, I also will be more diligent in reading through ALL the info on the pages that come up in a query.

Sigh. It will take much longer to go through it all, but if it's there, I guess I need to find it.

 

 

 

[paleolith]

On 3/9/2023 at 8:49 AM, Callum said:

Were you accidentally viewing the 1.0 help?

I've been hit by this several times. I find that often I simply do a web search <<Affinity Publisher whatever I'm looking for>>. This has the advantage of finding info in either the Help files or in the forum, and occasionally farther afield.

Surely it would be feasible to display at the top of each v1 help page "This is the help for Version 1 of Publisher. The current release is Version 2". I've seen that done elsewhere. Presumably the help files are stored in a database (like about 99% of web pages nowadays), so it would be a SMOC to insert the warning.

[walt.farrell]

21 minutes ago, paleolith said:

I find that often I simply do a web search <<Affinity Publisher whatever I'm looking for>>.

But if you were specifically wanting to search the Help, I'd recommend a search like this:

whatever you're looking for site:affinity.help/publisher2

[paleolith]

4 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

whatever you're looking for site:affinity.help/publisher2

Useful indeed, and Serif's documentation is excellent. However I often get useful information from the forum too.

[David in Mississippi]

13 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

But if you were specifically wanting to search the Help, I'd recommend a search like this:

whatever you're looking for site:affinity.help/publisher2

That's a GREAT Suggestion, Walt.

But you know, I can't help but think it would be even better if Affinity/Serif (and other companies with a huge knowledgebase) would install an AI-powered ChatBot on their help and user manual pages.

One company that supplies such a bot is https://fastbots.ai/ - I just heard about them yesterday.

Installing such a bot would allow users to have an almost-human conversation with the bot (a la ChatGPT) and get EXACTLY the answer they need, without having to trudge through a thousand pages of possible answers, and still not get what they're looking for.

We can hope.

Take care.

[piotr4338]

On 3/9/2023 at 9:20 AM, walt.farrell said:

If you search for Resource Manager in the In-App Help for Publisher 2 on Windows, the first hit is for the Resource Manager page. It starts out describing its function and then about halfway down the page there's a section on using it. Perhaps, as you suggest, where to find it should be first. Personally, I think I like the ordering of (a) what is it then (b) where to find it and how to use it.

 

 

@walt.farrell Sorry to necro, but I can't even find the resource manager -- here's a screenshot of the Window menu:

Also not in Text menu:

Nor in view:

[walt.farrell]

34 minutes ago, piotr4338 said:

Sorry to necro, but I can't even find the resource manager

You're using V1, where it's in the Document menu in Publisher if I remember correctly. 

 

[piotr4338]

3 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

You're using V1, where it's in the Document menu in Publisher if I remember correctly. 

 

So this is going to be painfully stupid question, but is there a way I can update to a newer version without re-downloading the whole thing? I couldn't find an (auto)update feature anywhere in the V1 program...

Or, perhaps I'm also asking the wrong thing. I'm also looking for the reference manager to use footnotes, but I can't seem to find it. It seems like it also should be under "Window" but I can't seem to find it elsewhere.

Edit: I misspoke -- I'm also looking for the reference manager for footnotes; that's my bad...

[GarryP]

The latest version of the V1 applications was 1.10.6 – if you have that version then you have the latest V1 applications.

There’s no way to update from V1 to V2 as the V2 applications are different applications; new licences need to be purchased for V2 if you want to use V2.

The Resource Manager in Publisher V1, as mentioned by Walt above, can be found via the “Document” menu.

Footnotes came in as a feature of V2 so you cannot use them in V1.

[piotr4338]

On 10/23/2023 at 3:40 AM, GarryP said:

The latest version of the V1 applications was 1.10.6 – if you have that version then you have the latest V1 applications.

There’s no way to update from V1 to V2 as the V2 applications are different applications; new licences need to be purchased for V2 if you want to use V2.

The Resource Manager in Publisher V1, as mentioned by Walt above, can be found via the “Document” menu.

Footnotes came in as a feature of V2 so you cannot use them in V1.

Oh my, gotta buy a whole new license? Well, I guess thems the breaks, so to speak. Thanks for the info! I was wondering why I couldn't find the feature.