DPS -- Updating articles with alternate layout page.

I am working on some DPS stuff and ran into an interesting work around... But I'm not sure if is actually supposed to work.
I am building a single (_h) orientation folio with single orientation articles and wanted to have a "scratch page" to work on in my documents (just space to create artwork and link it to hidden areas in objects states so my writers didn't have to go digging through object states to edit pieces).
So I created an "Alternate Layout" in my pages panel and made it whatever size I wanted. When updating the article I was pleased to see that the Alternate page that I had created was not shown in Adobe Viewer on my iPad.
IS there anything flakey about this workaround? Others that have tried this same work around have been given errors when trying to update their articles in folio builder, and I have not yet received that "content generation" error. WHY?

@Dave – since baseline grid is a document preference and not a page or a spread preference, this is not possible.
What is possible, is to set an individual baseline grid per text frame.
Or you could try to set your baseline grid to a common factor for both layouts, if that is possible at all, but there could be unwanted side effects…
For DPS usage I do recommend not using the baseline grid altogether.
@Neil – "Baseline Grid" might be an InDesign-specific feature, but most DPS users will have to work around the fact, that it is not a page or spread property, if they are using InDesign CS6 with alternate layouts.
Adobe should change that in a future version.
Uwe

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