Best practices for saving and sharing custom columns

Applies to:

  • Revu 20
  • Revu 2019

The Markups List features a variety of columns which can be sorted, reordered, and customized to fit your project needs. After creating a custom column, you can save it to a Profile or PDF, and share it with others. In this article, we’ll discuss best practices for saving and sharing custom columns. If you’re new to custom columns, you can get up to speed by watching this short video tutorial, or by visiting our help guide.

Where should I save my custom columns?

There’s two places you can save custom columns: a Profile or a PDF. Where you save a custom column depends on what you plan to do with your PDF. The table below offers an overview of the differences when you save a custom column to a PDF or a Profile.

Save to PDF

This saves the custom column to an individual PDF and the custom column becomes part of the PDF’s content. If you upload the PDF to a Session or send it to a colleague, the custom column will go with it.

 Consider this option if:

  • You’re going to upload the PDF to a Session.

  • You’re going to share this PDF with others and want them to see or interact with the columns.

Save to Profile

This saves the custom column to a Profile in Revu and the column becomes available whenever that Profile is active. The column will not become part of the PDF’s content unless you add a markup to the PDF and save it.

 Consider this option if:

  • You want this column to appear in the Markups List when that Profile is active.
  • You’d like to use this custom column again.

Saving custom columns to a PDF

Custom columns are saved to a PDF when you go to File > Save as long as there is at least one markup on the PDF.

To save a custom column from the Markups List :

  1. Go to Columns  > Manage columns.
    The Manage Columns dialog appears.
  2. In the Custom Columns tab, select Add.
  3. Create your column, when finished click OK.
  4. Save the PDF as you normally would.

The custom column has been saved to the PDF.

Saving custom columns to a Profile

If you’re working with a PDF that has custom columns and you’d like to reuse them, you can save the columns to your active Profile. The custom column will be available whenever that Profile is active.

If an active Profile has custom columns saved to it and you open a PDF with its own custom columns, the columns in the PDF will override those in the Profile.

To save custom columns to a Profile:

  1. From the Markups List , go to Markups List > Columns > Manage Columns.
    The Manage Columns dialog appears.
  2. Select the Custom Columns tab.
  3. Select the custom column you want to save.
  4. Click Save to Profile.

Your custom columns have been saved to the active Profile.

Uploading custom statuses to a Session 

If you want the custom statuses to appear in the Markups List, always save them to the PDF before uploading it to a Session.

Saving custom columns from a Profile to a PDF

To save the custom columns from a Profile to a PDF, simply place a markup on the PDF and save it. If you’ve been working in this Profile and placed markups on the PDF previously, the columns are already saved to the PDF.

If you didn’t place any markups while working in that Profile, the custom columns won’t transfer to the PDF.

Switching Profiles

Custom columns saved to a PDF will always override columns in a Profile. If you prefer to use the custom columns from the active Profile, first delete any custom columns on the PDF. The custom columns from the Profile are ready to use once you see them appear in the Markups List.

 

The Markups List features a variety of columns which can be sorted, reordered, and customized to fit your project needs. After creating a custom column, you can save it to a Profile or PDF, and share it with others. In this article, we’ll discuss best practices for saving and sharing custom columns. If you’re new to custom columns, you can get up to speed by watching this short video tutorial, or by visiting our help guide.

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