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Inherited Settings: How to align and smartly change settings on your flipbooks.
Inherited Settings: How to align and smartly change settings on your flipbooks.

A time saver for when you need to apply sweeping changes across folders, and subfolders.

Updated over a month ago

Making changes to a single Flipbook is easy enough, but updating branding or region settings across many can be tedious and error-prone. With iPaper’s inherited settings, you can apply changes to multiple flipbooks at once, saving time and ensuring consistency.

📖 This guide explains:

Inherited settings: what are they, and how do they work?

In iPaper, flipbooks and folders are organized hierarchically, allowing a folder to contain multiple Flipbooks and subfolders. Everything within a folder acts as a group, and any settings applied to a group automatically inherit to its contents, including subfolders and Flipbooks.

This process is known as inheritance. Inherited settings can streamline the management and consistency of elements across your Flipbooks and folders.

Here's a visual example of how inherited settings work across folders and Flipbooks, in iPaper:

How to identify which iPaper settings are inheritable

To show you where inherited settings are possible, we have added a folder tree icon beside each inheritable setting:

This symbol means that this setting will be applied to all subfolders and Flipbooks contained within the folder.

In the example above, a preloader image applied to a folder would result in the preloader image being applied to all the Flipbooks housed within that folder.

How to apply an inheritable setting

  1. Add all the Flipbooks you want in the folder.

  2. Right-click on the folder for which you want to apply inherited settings, and select Edit settings.

  3. Edit any settings you want under General, Design, Modules, and Integration.


    Any setting you change with the folder tree icon will be applied to all the Flipbooks in the folder.

Work smart, not hard

Inherited settings help when you work across your Flipbooks, and folders more effectively. This means you only have to take the time to set up folders with their preferred settings and, whenever you create a new Flipbook, or move one across folders, it automagically receives the correct settings. 🧙‍♂️

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