Use Content Collector/Conveyor to Place on Existing Frame?

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- February 8, 2017 at 5:59 pm #92079
  
  Brandon Vogts
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  Hi all, not sure if I’m just dense or this is really not possible to do. I would like to be able to use the Content Collector to load the conveyor with images and distribute them into EXISTING frames on a page (like placing multiple files at the same time). I cannot figure out any way to do this. I have tried modifier keys, clicking in different parts of the frames into which I want to place the content—nothing works. Surely there must be a way to do this (and it doesn’t seem to matter whether the frames are empty or already holding something in them). No matter what I do, when I switch to the content distributor, it creates a new frame wherever I click. Any help would be appreciated!
- February 9, 2017 at 7:32 am #92082
  
  David Blatner
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  Unfortunately, while that is how many of us want the tool to work, that is not what it does. This tool only works with page objects… and because the image is inside a frame, it only grabs the whole frame (and the image in it).
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