Creating Reusable Layouts

Created by Memento Support, Modified on Mon, 31 Aug at 8:31 PM by Lynne Darroch

To save time an effort, use Memento's ability to duplicate and save layouts to custom collections.

Did you know that Editors-in-Chief can import sections and pages from a previous year's book? Learn more here.

Duplicating a page

Use this option to make a quick copy of page to reversion it with new text and photos.

Hover over the page to access its menu, then choose Duplicate. An exact copy of the page will be added next to the original page.

Move the page to a new position on the ladder if required, and open it in the editor to make changes to the design.

Creating a layout collection

Memento enables you to save up to five collections of up to 100 layouts directly from your book ladder. Saved layouts are retained from year to year, so if you renew your Memento project next season, you will have access to all saved layouts created from the previous book.

Saving a layout directly from the book ladder

Hover over the page to access its menu, then choose Save Page as a Layout.

Choose whether to save the page into an existing collection (My Saved Layouts is the default) or click Create new to generate a new collection. After making your choice, click Save page as layout.

When creating a new collection, do the following:

The name of the layout collection
The pagetype -- Cover or Single Page
If the collection should be visible in the page editor's Layout tab. Click Publish to make it visible.
Optionally, add tags to make the collection searchable in the page editor.
Click Add Layout Collection to complete the setup.

Managing layout collections Editors-in-chief may access the Layouts tab from the Admin menu.
Single page layout collections appear at the top of the Layouts window, and Cover collections appear below.
To add a new collection, click Add New Layout (top right). Follow the instructions detailed above to create a new collection.
Manage existing collections by accessing their Settings. The collection may be renamed, published or unpublished (change its visibility status in the page editor) and tagged.
To permanently remove a layout collect, click Delete under the collection preview.
Editing layouts in a collection To work on the layouts with a collection, hover over the collection to access the Edit Layout button. Click this to open the layout collection in the editor.
The page editor will open. If you did not previously copy pages from your yearbook to your layout collection, the collection will contain only one empty page by default.
Click on the Designer tab to access page management tools Designer Tools include page management option for the collection. Click Add Pages to add a new page to your collection. The new page will always be added at the end. Click Duplicate Current Page to create a copy of the current page. The duplicate will appear immediately after the original page. Click Remove Current Page to delete the current page from the collection.
The layout editor provides access to the same tools as the regular page editor. 1- View and navigate all the pages in your collection by toggling the Pages button. 2- Use the arrows next to the pages to move to the next page. 3- Add image, text, and shape frames from the top right menu. 4- Add elements, backgrounds or copies of other layouts. If you have uploaded custom decorations (clipart, backgrounds), these may be added as well.
Note: To clean up pages saved from your ladder, remove the images from their frames. Select one or more images, click Image Tools then choose Remove Images.