Siegen/Haiger, 05.07.2012

New Table Designer for the InterRed Content Management and Editing System

InterRed is introducing the greatly improved Table Designer that is present in the Content Management and Editing System of the same name. The new user interface and a multitude of additional functions are of utmost importance for considerable added value – both for the creation of print and online publications - alongside fundamentally more straightforward operation.

The Table Designer, optimised: straightforward operation, plenty of functions and new user interface

The Table Designer is used to create and edit tables within the browser-based InterRed Content Management and Editing System. While doing so, the user can choose from two options: either creating a completely distinctive table, or copying entire tables from programs such as Microsoft Office (Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word) or Open Office (Calc) using “copy & paste”. For the latter option, cells that are already merged, links, and paragraph and character styles are retained on transfer and can therefore still be used in InterRed.

Also, when building a completely new table directly in InterRed, there is a wide variety of improvements. Here, handling familiar from programs such as Microsoft Excel assist in making the operation of various functions quicker and easier. This includes, among other things, inserting rows and columns, undo/redo step-by-step, resizing cells by dragging the mouse, selecting entire columns or rows, multiple selection and merging and unmerging cells. Also, the formatting of individual elements within a table with WYSIWYG-functions (“What You See Is What You Get”) has been optimised. All of this makes the new and greatly improved user interface (GUI) of the Table Designer possible.

Table Assistant for Microsoft Excel Connection

Alongside this, the Table Assistant, which is also integrated into InterRed, supports the user in importing data from external sources and in the media-neutral editing of this content in table format. As a result, editors, among others, have the option of creating database queries without knowledge of programming and in individual steps, and therefore of generating tables from this. These can also be taken over in accordance with the “Linking- & Embedding” principle either statically or dynamically. In this way, for example, quarterly turnover figures can be taken over on a one-off basis statically, but the address database in the intranet can be taken over dynamically, and therefore always currently. Using a bi-directional interface to Microsoft Excel, the Assistant also enables data transfer between InterRed and Microsoft Excel in both directions. In this way, table contents from InterRed can be edited in Microsoft Excel and then again transferred to InterRed.

The Table Assistant, in cooperation with the new, extensive functions of the Table Designer, offers all the options that users expect from professional table handling within a media-neutral Content Management and Editing System. The new Table Designer is available for InterRed from Version 13.