After a GreenLight report has run, you are prompted with a list of issues that you may wish to immediately investigate further.
Otherwise, with the InDesign Type Tool chosen, hover your cursor to the left of the row you wish to investigate further. When the cursor changes to an arrow pointing to the row, click to select the row in the results table.
With a row selected, run GreenLight again to run this single check again and to also explain why the check result was false.
If the problem is related to an object on the page then GreenLight will take you to the position in the InDesign document and select the problem area.
An on screen message is then shown with a brief description of the problem and a link to the accompanying GreenLight Online support article containing full information on what the problem is and how to fix it.
If appropriate, other options can also be shown. For example, to open all missing font names in a text file.
If the document has been updated, and the problem no longer exists, the row will be coloured green the next time GreenLight is run, either when running with a single row selected or when running GreenLight across the entire document.
When a 'yes' row is selected you are taken to the info page for that check on the GreenLight Online support site.
Some checks may be based on design guidelines but are not strictly required for successful production. In this case some checks may have an exception allowed.
An example of this is image resolution. Every good designer knows the value of using high resolution images, especially for print, however in some circumstances it is not possible to source a truly high resolution version of an important image.
In this case, and if allowed by the Admin User when setting up the checklist, it may be possible to mark a low resolution image as an acceptable exception.
In this case, to keep track of these allowed exceptions they are listed at the bottom of the results table.
Running the GreenLight check with exception allowed will disregard the resolution of images already marked as OK.
After a change has been made to an InDesign document the GreenLight Report is no longer up-to-date. The GreenLight Report does not update itself, it needs to be re-run.
Repeat the running of the GreenLight process to remove the old GreenLight Report and make a fresh one as GreenLight is run again.
Click on the GreenLight Mini panel, the GreenLight Main Panel button, use the keyboard shortcut (Opt + G) or choose the (GreenLight Run menu > Run GreenLight on Document) to run GreenLight.
Running the GreenLight process will perform each of the checks in the active checklist to the currently active InDesign document.
Run the GreenLight process across multiple documents with the (GreenLight Run menu > Run GreenLight on Folder).
If you have documents open you will be prompted to first close them before running this command.
Navigate to a folder on your Mac to run GreenLight on all InDesign documents within. InDesign documents can be within sub folders.
Each InDesign document is then opened in turn, the GreenLight process run and the document then saved and closed.
As the GreenLight process is run the GreenLight Report, a table of results, is added to the pasteboard outside the first page of the InDesign document.
The top row of the results table shows a total count of the issues found and a short description of each check and its result is then listed in the rows beneath.
Results for each checks are either true or false. A true result means the document has been setup as expected whereas a false result indicates a problem.
Rows for checks with true results are coloured in green, rows for checks with false results are coloured in red.
The last row shows the name of the checklist and the date and time that GreenLight was run.
The GreenLit status proves that a document has been setup in the required and approved way according to all the checks for the current checklist.
Several indicators help you and others know when documents have achieved the green light status.
