Unlike the financial filings you may create in the Workiva platform, your Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) or sustainability reports are often a public-facing representation of your company, similar to Marketing assets. Once you collect values for your Program metrics, you can disclose them through highly-attractive reports designed on the Workiva Platform, off-Platform in Adobe InDesign®, or a mix of both.
Use Workiva's Designed Reporting features
With Workiva's on-Platform Designed Reporting features, your Workiva Document becomes a canvas where you and your design team can compose highly-designed sustainability reports.
For example, you can:
- Enable dynamic layouts and designs with shapes; lines; and moveable "floating" text boxes, images, tables, and charts.
- Use File Colors to share brand colors and other consistent palettes with file collaborators and across multiple files.
- Adjust Character Spacing from very tight to very loose, or based on a specific value.
- Ensure picture-perfect fidelity with Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) images, including as file backgrounds.
Tip: If your report aligns with United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDG), you can download SVG communication assets — such as the UNSDG logo and icons — from the UN.
- Set up style guides to ensure consistent designs throughout a document.
By designing your reports on the Workiva Platform, you can:
- Retain connected values to help ensure a continuous audit trail and data accuracy throughout the design process.
- Maintain control of the document and its data with file permissions.
- Ease versioning with milestones and blacklines.
Export to Adobe InDesign®
For designers who prefer to work off-Platform in Adobe InDesign, you can save your report's document as InCopy Markup Language (ICML) to maintain the data assurance of its linked values in the Workiva platform.
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