How To Set Up Your Dynamic Cover

Dynamic covers are a great way to personalize yearbooks for your students. This upgrade provides them the option to **purchase yearbooks with their names and portraits printed in the cover**! To set up a dynamic cover upgrade on your account, make sure to speak with your sales representative or account manager so they can enable the upgrade on your account.

When you have the dynamic cover upgrade added to your account, the next thing you need to do is to make sure that you have the PSPA index supplied to you by your photographer, and the professional student portraits uploaded into the people page manager. If you’re unsure how to do that, please take a look at our people page video or click here to read more.

Once you’re sure that all of the student information and professional portraits are uploaded, you can turn on the sale of your dynamic covers. To start, go to MANAGE, then Manage Yearbook Sales.

Scroll down and click the Setup Online Sales button.

Under BOOK SALES, the first option is to turn on online sales for your account. Click the drop down to select Yes – Sell Books Online! After which, you can set up the pricing and deadlines for your book.

Scroll down to the Yearbook Upgrades section of the form then enable the Personalized Cover Upgrade. Please keep in mind that you can only have one type of personalization on your cover.
Once you’ve checked that off, scroll down to the bottom and hit SAVE.

Now that your store is enabled for the sale of your dynamic cover, you can start designing.
Click the DESIGN tab, then EDOnline – Design Cover.

First, create the normal cover of your yearbook and save. Next, save your cover as a template by clicking the Save As Template button.

After saving the cover as a template, click on View Pages and Manage Covers to add your dynamic cover. Click the Create Cover button.

Name your cover, and change the cover style to Dynamic – Flow Dynamic Data using the drop down and click Save changes.

Your dynamic cover will appear below the default cover. Next, click the Design button beside it to start designing your dynamic cover.

An Insert Ready pop-up will appear on the right that will show you the current covers that have been purchased already.

Next, go to Templates menu, click the blue My Templates & Pages at the top, then select and insert the cover template that you previously saved. Your dynamic cover should now look exactly the same as your original cover.

From the Photos menu on the left, click Blank Photo Frames, select a drop photo, and insert it to your cover. Make it a little bit larger to fit the size of a portrait.

Right click on the photo and hit Properties. Change the Dynamic Tag field to COVER PHOTO and the Profile Position to 1, then scroll down and hit Update.

You’ll then see that the photo box has filled with the first student that has purchased the cover.

To add the name field, go to the Quick Menu and hit the Add Frame button. Insert the drop photo box on your cover, then change the Dynamic Tag to COVER NAME and Profile Position to 1. The drop photo box will disappear and the student’s name should populate in the frame.

The drop photo box will disappear and the student’s name should populate in the frame.

You can edit the name field by clicking the Edit Text Style button from the Insert Ready pop up on your screen. You can give the name a different color, font or size. Make sure that you’re applying this to the Dynamic Cover fields and the Names. You can also fill the name field using the color drop down menu at the top toolbar so it’s a little easier to see.

You can also use the arrows here in the Quick Menu (<Prev or Next>) to switch between each student to make sure that their name and photo looks correct. Make sure that each student’s name fits in the space provided before clicking Save.

After saving your dynamic cover, you can also see how it would look like when you approve your book for production. Go to your Book Planning Ladder, then click the Approve For Production button.