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• Data merge problem - bad values when exporting PDF with "All folders" only

  Hi - I have the weirdest problem with InDesign: I use merge data from .csv to create a deck of cards (9 per page), and when I export to PDF from the data merge Panel, one of my field has erroneous data: it uses values from previous records and which repeat.

  What is strange, is that when the noticed, all right. Is also very good if I create a merged Document and PDF export. Is also very good if I export to PDF using just the range of entries it is play: I don't get that wrong data if export as PDF, "All records" in the data merge Panel.  Very frustrating!

  Someone saw? I feel that my data is ok, if the export of individual records is very well...

  Cheers for any help.

  Thank you! Which has me on the path to what looks like a fix...

  Copy all the fields in a new file does not solve the problem - the same behavior, but after the start of charges, I started to adjust the sizes of the fields and stumbled upon a possible solution.

  A field that trouble is a text box for a single digit, if limits are quite small. The name of the field for example placeholder. > is bigger and complained of cut-off text.  Increase the limits of the text box to be at least the size of the reliable placeholder text solves the problem. It decreases the size of a single digit... back of the problem.

  How weird.

  Thanks Peter.

• Data merge problem - HELP Please!

  To say that I'm new to data fusion would be a VAST understatement...

  I'm trying to merge the names of the companies of CSV in InDesign, but the apostrophes in names come through as to the strange time characters when I spotted and merge the document.  Does anyone have a solution? I am desperate at this point.

  Thank you!

  Work may be on a Mac with a CSV file generated by a user of Excel on Windows?

  By connecting your CSV, look for the 'Show Import Options' button. There you can select your delimiter (usually a comma, right?) and your platform and Encoding. If my above assumption is correct, then you will want to set it to ASCII and PC , but if it's another arrangement, you must find the right platform and encoding by trial and error, or understand the source encoding and the platform of the CSV in other ways.

• InDesign CS4 Excel data merge on the master page problem

  Hi all

  I had the following problem with an automated data merge document. He reads only the first row of cells in the document. That's what I did.

  Examples of data

  Excel

  Colum A Cel A1: Articlenummer

  Cel A2 12345

  Cel A3 5465

  Colum B Cel B1 Description

  Cel B2 Test 1

  Cel B3 Test 2

  Barcode Colum C Cel C1

  Cel C2 90000

  Cel C3 900001

  On the master page, I made a layout with the folling containers. The diagram below is for 1 item.

  Text for Articlenummer container

  Contatiner text for Description

  For the barcode text container

  I copied the three containers on the page which resulted in the master page with 40 containers for each item.

  I went data merge and connected the TXT document to the first set of containers. InDesign reads the data and place it correctly. But Indesign doenst copy the data in the row of the cell in the following sets of containters. If I connect the document to the next set of containers that indesign don't bed that the data of the first line of the cell which results in a document that contains only the same data.

  Somehelp with that does

  Best regards

  Phillip

  I suspect what happens, that's what I described in my previous post, PARAGRAPH:

  «Indesign takes what he considers a "record" what on the page, that is from the top left to the bottom right of the page, any indesign objects can enter it considers only a record.»

  It's a little hard to explain so I'll demonstrate in images using a simple merge

  

  

  If the finished merger looks like

  

  but, if a chart is placed on the same page (whether the page master or not, doesn't matter) this is where things can go wrong

  

  but this is easily seen in the preview

  

  so, when you perform a merge of data with multiple records, the data of the variable must be treated separately to static data (items that will be on every page as a background, or in this example, the smiley face).

  If the merger on a master page, static elements must be on a master page above and variable must be on a master BASED ON the static captain.

  If the merger on a standard page, static elements must be on the master page. The advantage with fusion on a master page is that data remain linked. The downside is that a page can contain variable data in the merged file.

  hope it makes sense.

• Empty fields in the data merge is originally from empty lines will appear. CS4

  I had this problem when I ask myself on my data merge info I origionally put phone and mobile phone on the same line which resaulted in the cell phone number split in two, as the column was not wide enough to display both side by side. I then moved the cell phone up to the next line but the problem number, then I had was that this would leave an empty line whenever I could meet someone who has not had a cell phone number. Anyone know how I can reduce this empty line when the phone line is empty?

  See your other thread where you have asked about it.

• Several problem data merge Page

  Hey all,.

  I'm doing a data merge to create a product catalog and having a small issue.

  My catalog has 5 rows and 1 column per page. I have guides Setup for this.

  I have the first installation of the product data fusion and you can get an overview of the information are imported acorss from my CSV file. I can change the pages and all information will be updated according to the CSV file. This part works fine.

  My problem strives to bring to merge into several pages. I can't merge onto a single page.

  When you go to "Create a Document merged", choose "All Records", "multiple records per Page.

  When I choose "Cliché recording Multiple Preview" shows nothing outside of the first row.

  If I'm trying to merge, he created approximately 40 new pages, exact copies of the first leaf, but with the new entires of CSV.

  Here's what I would like 5 times per page.

  

  I tried to play with margins in the preview (I haven tried to hide with the margins, and then merge, I was hoping I could find a simple solution without merging several times)

  I watched several videos on YouTube, The InDesigner and searched this site but could not find something to help with my problem.

  Any help would be appreciated to grealtey!

  Many thanks in advance,

  several records per page presupposes that the data to be cloned are all that is in the indesign file then and there. This applies to:

  • all the graphics in the background
  • the master page items

  without seeing the pdf file and simply looking at the screengrab, I would say it is the question, but I could be wrong. try to get rid of all graphics except for what is meant to merge and try to re-run the multiple records per page.

  and Yes, that means that all the graphics in the background must be set ONCE the merger is completed. an easier way to do this is to save them in another indesign file. and once the datamerge is finished, go to the pages palette and load master pages from the other indesign file.

  This help at all?

• Problem with comma in the source of data merge document

  I use InDesign CS6 on a Mac in the Mavericks.

  I created a data source document in Word, saved as a .txt file.  It is a unique field which is the titles of documents. One of the documents has two commas in the title. When I do the merging of data, this page displays only the part of the title until the first comma, and then the merger's going to the next page.

  InDesign aid supposed to include the punctuated title between quotation marks. I tried enclosing the entire title in quotes, and I tried enclosing just commas in quotes. I used quotes and quotes. The result is always the same, the title merges up to the first comma and then going to the next page.

  Usually, Google is my friend, but I could not find all the answers either.  What I am doing wrong?

  When you perform a data merge, it uses a character as the delimiter between fields. The default value is a comma. If you have just a single column of data, with no field to separate, then you can check the Options to Import Show key when selecting your data source and set the delimiter to be something thing-anything! -other than a comma. This will force InDesign to ignore commas in your data.

• Data merge multiple records on a single page?

  I'm working on a grand layout photos grad with names, of the years and images.

  I'm trying to data merge my excel sheet spread if I can have all the images, names and years on one page.  There are about 4000 images total (spread through 5 layouts), so I don't want to put all the pictures individually, the names of types and years individually and then re - arrange when we need to add additional images.

  My problem is that the same data are reapeating in all fields on the page.  Even when I create a new page, the same data made its appearance.

  If I saw the data, I can scroll through all of them, but only ever displays both.  Multiple data by option on the page are grayed out in the data merge window whenever I try.   I use InDesign CS4.

  Y at - it something I am doing wrong, or is there another way to approach it?

  I agree that it seems like if you duplicated data in your source although I can't gray on the option of multiple data page, if I try. It is perhaps something poick to the top with this clip. Good luck & let us know how make you out.

  http://www.theindesigner.com/podcasts/tid43_theindesigner_43.MP4

• Data merge Panel no display fields

  Hi all

  I have problems with the data merge. I select a proper CSV file. It seems that inDesign loads the file (no errors whatsoever), but then it does not display the fields on the Panel. It remains the same, with instructions on how to use the data merge.

  What I am doing wrong?

  How can I solve this problem?

  Thank you very much

  Jordi

  Jordi,

  I see nothing wrong with the file, but it won't work for me in CS3 or CS4. What is even more strange, it is I can do a new test file that works, but if I try to type your data into excel and save it, it does not.

  Good news. I think I found the problem. Rename the last field to something other than 'table' and it seems to work. I suspect that ID interprets that as some sort of command.

  Peter

• Data merge several people on one page

  I create a file of data merge to create a travelogue of emergency contacts. The previous file was done in Publisher (YUCK) and needs to be rethought. I'm trying to set up the file properly in InDesign to perform a data merge in which there are 3 contacts per page (one primary, secondary and substitute for each county in New York). See below

  

  Currently, I can't figure out how to get multiple contacts on a single page. The way it is set up now, I can get information for a person to appear on each Board.

  

  Any ideas on how to help?

  You have the same problem with which I tried to help in this thread: repeat pages

  As you've found data merge InDesign really only merges a record of several sets of fields... OR (what you want)... multiple records to a set of fields.

  So what you need is just a set of fields; one. Follow these steps:

  

  And delete everything except the first page.

  1. Now, with emphasis on the page of the document (and not his mistress), choose Create a merged Document in the data merge Panel menu.
  2. Tab records the dialog box create a merged Document, choose multiple records in the accounts rendered by menu Page of the document.
  3. Check the box saw several shot record.
  4. Switch to Multiple record layout tab and set the controls to set folders as desired (3 per page) while previewing in real-time.

• Switch to numbers in the data merge

  I have a strange problem with data merge in CS6. We are merging the addresses and when the address field starts with 2 numbers (like 11-100 Main Street or 11 100th Street) the fusion of data passes these numbers (so we are left with 100-11 Main Sreet or 100 11th Street). Can you help me understand?

  You have maybe taken care of right-left on language that these paragraphs?

• Data merge InDesign Photos

  I have an excel inventory spreadsheet and I'm doing the flyers of stock.  Data merges completely fine, but photos will not. Here is a very simplified version of the information available to me.  The Indesign file will have 5 photos of total, but it transfers any of them.  I have the excel file and the pictures located in the same folder as well.

  Header 1	Header 2	Header 3	' @image	' @image	' @image
  Data	Data	Data	Image 1	Image 2	Image 3

  I did some research online and watched the video several and still can't find what I'm doing wrong.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you

  I found the problem; It's in your database file.

  When I deleted the Description that all merged column correctly, so I took a quick look. At the end of the text in the first record of this column, there is a return. (I couldn't see it directly by pasting the text into InDesign)

  On a new copy of the data file, I deleted this return, and the fusion worked correctly.

• 9.2 CC InDesign crashes when you open the data merge Panel

  I have a document that is in a book (for multiple files) with cross-references to other documents in the book. I also almost all of the content in an inCopy assignment in order to manage in multiple versions/layouts with the same content. All references are separated InCopy as page numbers vary from book to book.

  That said, so that other documents in the work of book very well, this one is having issues. Whenever I try to view the data merge Panel, it crashes. I had a similar problem with other files where if I try to select a merge data source it would break. I've solved the problem of the registration of a copy, the deletion of all pages of the document, by selecting the data merge source (who now works with any content on the pages), and then copy and paste the content on the pages back. Not sure why this works, but it did.

  The problem is that I tried the same solution on this document and it worked until I tried to click on the data merge Panel after you follow these steps, inDesign crashes. If I open the data merge Panel, THEN open the document, it crashes as well.

  I'll try to redo this with panel data fusion open while I copy and paste content back in and see if I can refine the problematic content if that is the question.

  Other documents are open so that they are accessible?

• Data merge do not pick up all the fields of data

  Hello

  I had a problem, posted here: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1217090

  Essentially, I used the "CSV2Tables" script to pre-populate arrays of simple column 2 with information from a CSV data source.

  The tables consist of a title and a block on this specific topic. Many of the blocks of information that I am importing also contain the tag (< < DataTag > >) data

  The plan is to use CSV2Tables to populate the tables, then change the data source and run an ID data merge to replace all < < flags > > normal in the tables with the information from a second source of CSV data.

  The problem is, CSV2Tables is important data and tables very well pre-load, but data tags that are found in each body text are picked up in plain text (as Peter Spier has pointed out, they are being requested by a plain text stream rather than drag since the merger Panel and direct mail) so when I try to run direct mail ID , none of the fields are in my document.

  My question is - is there a method, or a script available out there that can essentially do a find/replace in a document and replace the text that appears as the < < PlainText > > with a data that is recognized by ID, label that will allow me to run a data merge?

  Told me to check out some of the available commercial plugins out there, but registration and establishment of demo would force me to contact our it supplier for each, and it would be a comprehensive process.

  Any help is very appreciated.

  Hello

  As far as I know it actually takes a script to replace "plain text" with dataMergeTextPlaceholders.

  a small example;

  Array.prototype.find = function (string) {
      for (var s = 0; s < this.length; s++)
          if (this[s] == string) return s;
          return -1;
      }
  
  var mFile, mDoc, mFields, mFieldsNames, mStory, mPlainTxt, mNameToCompare, mField_ID;
  
  // edit this with proper .csv path
  mFile = File(Folder.myDocuments + "/" + "Merge.csv");
  mDoc = app.activeDocument;
  mDoc.dataMergeProperties.selectDataSource(mFile);
  mFields = mDoc.dataMergeProperties.dataMergeFields;
  mFieldsNames = mFields.everyItem().fieldName;
  
  // script assumes a text box with "plain texts" to replace is selected
  mStory = app.selection[0].parentStory;
  app.findGrepPreferences = null;
  app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "<<.+?>>";
  mPlainTxt = mStory.findGrep(true);
  for (var k = 0; k < mPlainTxt.length; k++) {
      mNameToCompare = mPlainTxt[k].contents.slice(2,-2);
      mField_ID = mFieldsNames.find(mNameToCompare);
      if (mField_ID > -1) {
            mField = mFields[mField_ID];
          mDoc.dataMergeTextPlaceholders.add (
              mStory,
              mPlainTxt[k].insertionPoints[0],
              mField
              )
      mPlainTxt[k].remove();
       }
      }
  

  At this point, you can run a "normal data merge.

  This should work for related managers (the one selected) or a table inside the selected image

  I hope it could be useful for more complex tasks

  Rgds

  Jarek

  Post edited by: Jump_Over ==> added media because if last statement

• Limitations of the data merge?

  10.8.3 - CS5 OS

  I've been using merge data for simple tasks, but now I ran into problems.

  I have about 100 records and about 22 colums for each.

  I'm trying to create a single page for each item.

  The labels come in fine in data merge window, but as I try to create a merged document I get the message:

  "There are at least a placeholder data which is not found in the data source. Make sure that any placeholders correspond to the fields in the data source. »

  And the placeholders do match fields.

  The content of each record consists of the text of approximately 1000 characters run - it no go?

  BR

  Nina storm

  Your text running there line breaks? Data merge cannot handle line breaks in a field, but the result is usually blurred out, although it could well generate the error that you have a field with no field in the data file.