Tutorial request: moving print layout to tablet

Hello, I see a lot of courses and training about DPS, but one seems to be missing, a tutorial to adapt efficiently an existing indd layout to the tablet world. Especially a picture book layout with 200 pages, which can be a very time-consuming task, or maybe not, when properly explained.
Is this happening anytime soon?
Thank you

Hello Thomas,
you can find the mentioned Tutorial under
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/servlet/prt/portal/prtroot/com.sapportals.km.docs/documents/a1-8-4/user reports - print layout designer.abst
or via SDN -> Developer Areas -> Business One -> Tutorials.
This document describes, who to use the well known document editor to create individual layouts for your own queries in order to print them.
As it's just an explanation on how to use the document editor for this purpose, you'll have to stick to the same limitations as for all other documents.
And: No - it won't show you, how to create a new layout. The best docu for that issue is imho the documentation, which was shipped with SBO 6.01, the Course material for TB1200 or the Online-Help.
My best,
Dierk Meissner

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