Slide names and descriptions?

Question

I am new to DPS and pretty average in InDesign. Where to I edit the name of the slides so that they appear when viewing the .folio in Adobe Content Viewer? It would appear in the menu on the left, and the vertical view of all slides in the .folio. Thanks!

Answer 1

I think you're trying to use InDesign and DPS as tools to generate one complete slideshow. In InDesign's jargon "slideshows" are merely (small or large) interactive parts within a page. The way you want to use it, is to use a pages as a complete slide and the whole folio as a slideshow. Nothing wrong with that, but you might consider a different approach, or even a different tool and file format for such a purpose.
Nevertheless, try making a horizontal InDesign file (1024x768) with a page for each slide. Upon testing and uploading, look for the "Horizontal swipe only" setting.
It might still be difficult or even impossible to get titles and other (meta) info in a specific area like the table of contents, because you're actually 'misusing' the functionality of DPS. If you want to get those titles and a nice Table of Contents as well, you need 1 article with 2 layouts (InDesign files) for each slide and title. Make 1 horizontal InDesign file for each slide and 1 vertical InDesign file for a title, combine these two as Layouts into an Article, and add Properties like Titles and description again, to cater for the automated Table of Contents.
See the tutorials for more info on how to do all these steps and find these options. You can find them here. But beware, you might find it quite challenging for this purpose.