Creating a bulleted list in the CHILI BackOffice Editor is as simple as creating or updating a paragraph style. In fact, that’s exactly what you’ll need to do to allow your users to create a bulleted list in their Tempo templates.

Defining a Paragraph Style for Bulleted Lists

To create a repeatable bulleted list style in your template, navigate to the Styles tab in the CHILI BackOffice Editor and follow the following steps:

1. Open the Paragraph Styles and Paragraph Styles Settings dropdowns.
2. Under Paragraph Styles choose the existing paragraph style that needs bullets or create a new style based on your needs.
3. In the Paragraph Styles Settings section, navigate to the Indents tab. Here you will see an empty dropdown and an Active checkbox. 
4. Click the dropdown and select 1 and toggle the Active checkbox.
   • You will now see the option to set which character you would like for your bullet as well as the capability to set your indent and left margin distances. Your bullet can be any number, character, or glyph your font supports.
5. Input your bullet style into the Bullet box.
6. Repeat steps 4 and 5 for each number option in the dropdown list. 
   • Each option corresponds to the bullet indent. For example, option 1 is your main bullet, option 2 is a sub-bullet, and so on.

Apply the appropriate paragraph style to the text you would like to contain your bullets and set your Lock Content frame constraint to No. Read this article for more information on creating an Editable Inline Text Frame.

NOTE: If you have a variable applied to this text box, the variable will override your ability to add bullets. The frame must be free of variables and have open frame constraints. 

Applying Bullets in the CHILI Back Office Editor

If you would like to add your bullets in the CHILI BackOffice Editor, follow the steps below:

1. Create or select into the text box that will contain your bullets.
2. Apply the paragraph style that corresponds to your bullet points.
3. Using the top toolbar, click the Increase Indent button to the right of the Pos. dropdowns to add a bullet.
   
   
   
4. Type your first line of text for your bulleted list.
5. To create your next bullet, simply hit Enter on your keyboard. 
6. To make this line a sub-bullet, click the Increase Indent button again. This will create your sub-bullet with the character you chose for option 2 in your Paragraph Style Settings panel.
7. Follow steps 5 and 6 to complete your bulleted list.

Applying Bullets in Your Tempo Smart Template

As an end user creating bullets in a Tempo Smart Template, follow the steps below:

1. Click into the text box that will contain their bullets.
2. Using the Inline Text Toolbar, click the Increase Indent button to add a bullet.
   
   
   
3. Type your first line of text for your bulleted list.
4. To create your next bullet, simply hit Enter on your keyboard. 
5. To make this line a sub-bullet, click the Increase Indent button again.
6. Follow steps 5 and 6 to complete your bulleted list.