[Sigia-l] Axure

[David Carruthers]

Visio does have similar 'master' functionality.

Create an object. Drag it into the document stencil. Use it across
your document.

Then whenever you change that object in the Document Stencil, it
changes across the whole document.

Only difference is something dragged from the document stencil isn't
locked. Once you change it, it's no longer attached to the master.

Also i'm not sure if nested stencils work?

On 8/25/06, Fred Beecher <fbeecher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/25/06, David Carruthers <dave.carruthers at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > - Does it have a "backgrounds" concept? I use that a lot in Visio.
> > >
> > Not in exactly the same way.
> >
> > The same affect is achieved using a locked master as the background
> > for all pages required (the only pain being if you wanted to send
> > another item 'to back' then the background master would be on top of
> > it)
>
> The "master" concept in Axure is one of the major advantages it has
> over Visio, in my opinion. When you change a master, *every instance*
> of that master in the current prototype updates to reflect that
> change. There are tons of things I now use masters for... search
> results, navigation, etc. If I were to try to accomplish the same
> thing in Visio, I'd need to create a tangled web of background
> pages... no thanks! (Regarding locked masters... I've never bothered
> to lock them... I've never needed to.)
>
> > That in combination with the 'duplicate page' feature should do the business
>
> Ack. Duplicate Page is probably one of the best examples of Axure's
> clunkiness. Instead of being able to hit CTRL and drag a page to a new
> place in the hierarchy, you have to hit the "Duplicate Page" option,
> and then click a bunch of arrow buttons until it ends up in the right
> place. It takes me far less time to just put the header, footer, etc.
> masters on a new page. Or just copy & paste from an old page to a new
> one.
>
> - Fred
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