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SlideShow-Manager uses your slide shows and templates to create a menu.
You insert placeholders into the templates that will be replaced by real slide shows by SlideShow-Manager during the creation of the menu.
In general a template consists of up to 3 pages, one title, one repeating and one end page. Title and end page are optional.
You specify the type of the respective page in its property settings.
The different page types can be used as follows:
Title page
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This page type will only be displayed at the beginning of that menu level that the template is assigned to.
On this page you can e.g. display a few introducing words and help your presentation to a successful start.
For a template to function properly a title page is not a necessity.
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Repeating page
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Repeating pages are the most important page type in a template. When SlideShow-Manager replaces the placeholders in your template by real slide shows the repeating page will be repeated (at max.) as often as there are slide shows available.
You can design a template completely without title and end page. A repeating page, on the other hand, is always required.
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End page
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You can use an end page to display some closing words, credits or a final image for your menu.
Pages of this type will always be displayed at the end of a menu level.
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In principle you can define more than one page of each type for your template. However, for title and end pages SlideShow-Manager always uses the first page of the respective type it can find.
For repeating pages you can specify in the menu settings which repeating page SlideShow-Manager will use if your template contains more than one page of this type.
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If you don't assign a template to a chapter or to a slide show that contains chapters SlideShow-Manager automatically uses the template of the parent level. However, since the template can contain a title and an end page SlideShow-Manager creates the sub-menu with title and end page, as well. Often this behaviour is not desired since usually the title page is meant to be the one and only page of this type in the entire menu. The same applies to the end page.
You can change the behaviour regarding the use of title and end pages and selection of repeating pages by selecting the respective chapter first and then clicking the "Menu settings" tab.
You prevent the use of a title and/or end page by deactivating the check box "Use title page" and/or "Use end page".
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