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How-To’s for Admins

View our detailed how-to articles, written by Mimeo Digital experts. As an administrator, you can make content distribution-ready ahead of time, replace content that’s already been distributed, enable offline access instantly, just to name a few options.

Adding a New Administrator (Mimeo Digital)

It’s easy to add another admin to your Mimeo Digital account. Go to Settings Go to Administrators 2. Inside the administrator tool, click on the “new administrator” button Designate Admin’s Email 3. This will expose a text box. Click on the box and enter the email address for your new admin and click the “search” […]

Adding a Table of Contents to Your Native File (Mimeo Digital)

For long documents divided into sections, a table of contents can help your audience quickly find and jump to where they need to be. You can add a table of contents with just a few steps prior to uploading documents. Adding a Table of Contents to an Existing PDF The PDF format utilizes what it […]

Adding Keys to a Previous Distribution (Mimeo Digital)

It’s easy to update the keys associated with your distributions. Go To Your Distribution Report From the left-hand navigation pane in your admin account, go to “Distributions.” Find Your Distribution You can either scroll through your distributions or use the “Filter” bar to search for a distribution by name or keyword. Options and Add Keys […]

Create A Key or Distribution Before Your Content is Ready (Mimeo Digital)

Sometimes, you need to create a key for your content before your content is actually done. For example, if you need to send your class instructions with the key to print before the final job aid is ready for upload.  We’re working on a way to create keys in advance. In the meantime, here’s our […]

Creating a PDF Form: Data Directed to Your Email (Mimeo Digital)

One great way to capture whether your end-users have interacted with your content is by embedding a PDF form into your document. Here’s how to create your PDF form so that the submitted data goes directly to an email address Create your PDF form as you normally would. Add in as many form fields as […]

Creating a PDF Form: Data Directed to Your Server (Mimeo Digital)

One great way to capture whether your end-users have interacted with your content is by embedding a PDF form into your document. Here’s how to create your PDF form so that the submitted data goes directly to your server Create your PDF Form as you normally would. Add in any and as many form fields […]

Deactivate Unredeemed Keys (Mimeo Digital)

If you created more keys for a distribution than you actually needed, that means the extra keys will be unredeemed, which can be a security risk.  While you can always deactivate keys on an individual level, it’s faster to deactivate all unredeemed keys from the distribution at once. Here is how to deactivate keys from […]

Email Template for Mimeo Digital End-Users (Mimeo Digital)

Getting your end-users excited about your content is an important step to effective content distribution.  Here are our best practices (and free templates) for how to get your users started on Mimeo Digital: Whether you use our template or not, here are some best practices for what to include in your communication: Template: Direct Distribution […]

Enable Offline Access Instantly (Mimeo Digital)

Making your content accessible offline is an important feature. This enables your end-users to access your content within the Mimeo Digital app without accessing wifi while keeping your intellectual property secure.  As an administrator, you can add offline accessibility to files on each distribution, so that your end-users don’t even have to lift a finger. […]

How to Add/Remove Content from a Distribution (Mimeo Digital)

With our latest feature, you can add and remove files from any existing distribution. When you’ve missed a file or added an incorrect one to a distribution, this function provides the help you need to fix any distribution!   Here’s how to edit your distribution Step One Browse to the “Distributions” page on the admin […]

How to Distribute Your Content (Mimeo Digital)

Once you have uploaded content to the platform, you are now ready to put together a distribution. Let’s get started! Step 1: Make sure that you are logged into your Mimeo Digital Command Account (www.digital.mimeo.com / www.digital.mimeo.co.uk / www.digital.mimeo.de) Step 2: Make sure that all of the files you require for distribution have been uploaded […]

How to Replace Content After a Distribution (Mimeo Digital)

It’s easy to replace content after you have distributed it to participants. Sometimes, you need to replace content that you have already distributed to participants as newer version of the content is available. This article focuses on how to replace content after you have distributed it to participants. Check out this article for how to […]

How to Set Up Categories and Use Them (Mimeo Digital)

Your Mimeo Digital admin library is set up so you can easily sort content into categories that make sense for your business model. You can sort content into file types, placeholders, classes, or whatever hierarchy makes sense for you. Mimeo vocab: The categories you see in your administrator library are not reflected in your end-user’s […]

How to turn on the “copy content” setting (Mimeo Digital)

When you want your users to be able to copy and paste portions of your content into their external notes, you’ll want to give them the ability to “copy content” on a file within each distribution.  This tool allows end-users to copy your content on their PC, tablet, or smartphone. They can copy anything from […]

How to Update or Replace Content After a Distribution (Mimeo Digital)

Sometimes, you need to update content that you have already distributed to users. This article focuses on how to update content after you have distributed it to users. Check out this article for how to update content before you add it to a distribution. Upload Your New File Begin by uploading your new file. Once […]

How to Update or Replace Content Before You Distribute (Mimeo Digital)

We know that in today’s business world, content needs constant updating. That’s why we made it easy for you to update or replace your content in Mimeo Digital.  This article focuses on how to update content before you add it to a distribution. Check out this article for how to update content after you have […]

How to Use Direct Distribution (Mimeo Digital)

What is Direct Distribution? Using direct distribution, you can now place content directly in your end-user’s library without requiring them to redeem a key.  Why use Direct Distribution? Many administrators want to make the key redemption process simpler for end users and at the same time have an easy way to provide content to a […]

Improved Signup Release Notes (Mimeo Digital)

Release Date – May 10th, 2017 We have heard your feedback about our account sign-up process. What if my user misspells their email address? What if my user enters the wrong email address (personal vs. business or team email vs. individual)?  Mimeo has addressed these issues by making one small change to our sign-up process. […]

Linking Pages within a Document (Mimeo Digital)

Digital documents are often more powerful when they are interactive. Mimeo Digital supports PDFs that are built with interactive elements such as a custom table of contents or links from one page to another. Here’s how to set up interactive links in your native PDF file (before uploading to Mimeo Digital) Create a Text Link […]

Managing Content with Sub-Categories (Mimeo Digital)

What are Sub-Categories? Currently, Digital Administrators can create only one level of categories to manage their content. We have enhanced this feature so that administrators can create multiple categories that will not only help in organizing content better but will also make it easier to navigate to the content in specific categories. How to Add […]

Mimeo Digital Summer Feature Pack (2018)

What’s new? Ever had to revoke the entire distribution and feel powerless to do so? Fear not; now we’ve added an option to revoke access to an entire distribution including all available keys and redeemed keys of the distribution. Why is it important? Administrators and coordinators can revoke access to the entire distribution with a […]

Standard view across all devices

Mimeo Digital will soon be upgrading the viewer to enhance the end-user experience. The end-users will start seeing the content in a newer viewer with enhanced capabilities but similar in terms of the interactions which would be similar across all devices (Browser/Tablets/Mobile).  The users would definitely like the much cleaner and simpler interface that’s more […]

The Latest Updates to Your Digital Admin Library (Mimeo Digital)

Our goal at Mimeo is to make it simple for you to put content in front of your learners. These latest updates to the Digital admin library are designed to make your process easier than ever: Multi-Select Content You can now select multiple pieces of content at a time. That means you can take bulk […]

Update Label changed to “Replace” (Mimeo Digital)

A small but important visible change has been done to the Mimeo Digital user interface. With the latest release of Mimeo Digital, the “Update” label is changed to “Replace” to make is clear about the intended replace functionality. When the user now clicks on the “More” button found for each content in the “Library” section, […]

Your Guide to the New Digital End-User Experience (Mimeo Digital)

You work hard to make your content effective. We work hard to make it easy for your learners to interact with your content. That’s why we recently gave the Mimeo Digital end-user experience a facelift.  Here’s Why the New Digital End-User Experience Is Better Here’s What You Need to Know About the New Experience We’re […]