[scribus] Would like to read up on Attributes

[Gregory Pittman]

On 9/20/21 11:31 AM, Martin Zaske LINGO wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> we are preparing a mild re-design of our magazine, to make it more
> suitable for the small screens of phones.
> 
> We also use the occasion to move the entire office to Scribus 1.5.7.
> 
> 
> I also hope to tune our internal work-flow some more and maybe use
> Scribus itself to track the status of each article - as our different
> free-lance team-members do their various jobs. People are working on
> different computers and projects get moved around, so having the admin
> inside, might be a bonus (or a logistics nightmare).
> 
> 
> I have discovered that on right-click certain items like text-frames or
> image-frames have a tool for "Attributes" with Name, Type, Value,
> Parameter, Relationship and Relationship to as possible columns. I look
> through the inbuilt help and the wiki online and found confirmation in
> https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/File_Format_Specification_for_Scribus_1.5 
> but no details at all.
> 
> 
> Now I wonder how we can use these. Are those meant for work-admin for
> Scribus users, or are those "Attributes" meant for Scribus-only
> "technical" purposes?
> 
> Is there a way to have certain Attributes show up in visible form in a
> document? For example one Attribute could be "domain" and somewhere in
> our articles we could have a "field" inside a text-frame that would
> print "Sports" or "Health"? I am thinking of those "fields" that we are
> using for "page number". Can we have "fields" from the "Attributes"?
> 
> 
> Is there a way to assign Attributes not just to individual items but to
> an entire Scribus Document? (I am aware of Document Information in
> Document Setup, but Attributes seem to be a different concept, maybe
> meant or not meant for readers of final output?)
> 
> Is there a tool to manage Attributes, like we have the "Image Manager"
> to see lots of useful data in one location?
> 
> 
> 
> Anybody is already using the attributes feature and has tips or warning
> to share?
> 
> Thank you for your input,
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
Hi Martin,

I have long wondered myself what the purpose of attributes is. There is something about attributes in Preferences where it talks about creating a Table of Contents, but exactly how you bring this about I don't know.  There is a small chapter in Scribus: The Official Manual covering this, but I don't find it in the online manual.

Greg