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.

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