Eas圜atalog Functions can be used with the same JavaScript you use for other InDesign automation tasks.Inserting a field specifier in the document On this page, we will showcase some of the most important features of Eas圜atalog and some useful configurations. This is an optional step, it depends if the logic of your document is flat or, as it happens in most publications, there is a hierarchy that groups products into different categories. This is the biggest game-changer in Eas圜atalog when compared to standard free tools like InDesign Data Merge. Firstly because it helps you really keep your product in the data panel organized. And secondly, because the pagination rules that we are going to see later can be assigned to different levels of the hierarchy, letting you the very useful capabilities to assign different styles and behaviors to various levels of your data, and assign them sequentially during the pagination. Sequentially means: first you can paginate category level information such as title, description, and pictures, and immediately after that, paginate the products information of the items belonging to the same category, as soon as the product in the first category finish, the pagination automatically goes on with the second category. So, in order to use the grouping features from the Eas圜atalog Data Panel, you have to choose the command group. On the left, you’ll find the list of table headers/field of your panel, click on the headers that are a category, like first category, second category and so on.Ī very useful capability is to choose the sorting criteria of the grouping. Ascending or Descending for example, but you could follow the order of different field from the one you use for grouping, let’s say you a grouping title field, and grouping order fields.Ī good thing to keep in mind is that the type of field that Eas圜atalog sets up is going to change the sorting order. Type can be number or alphanumerical fields. Maybe this is counter-intuitive, take this sample:Ī numbered list such as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. If you set this field as a number this list is sorted in the same way: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12. But if you set the fields as alphanumeric the list will be sorted in this way: 1, 11, 12, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 funny isn’t it?īecause in alphanumerical values, strings starting with 1 come before strings starting with 2. Usually, Eas圜atalog is good at detecting the right type of fields, but sometimes you have to set it manually. Very well, now that you have all your data in an InDesign/Eas圜atalog Panel you are ready to do your first magic trick. We seek your support in our continuous effort to improve InDesign.Then select the InDesign Typing tool, create a text frame, chose the insertion point into the text frame and press the small pencil icon at the bottom of the data panel … You can select a value from the data panel. If you are facing any slowness in InDesign or seeing any other performance issue, we request you vote for the relevant thread or create a new thread specifying the action/workflow which is slowing you down. As per your feedback and the outcome of our investigation we have created multiple threads to address each root cause separately and effectively. However, over the time this thread has become too generic to serve its purpose effectively. We have created separated threads for these issues and we are now working towards resolving them. We have concluded our investigation and have come up with few findings.ġ.ğor many of the users the issue got fixed after updating InDesign to a newer version.Ģ.ğor some, the issue got resolved after disabling a third-party application such as Suitecase fusion etc.ģ.ğor few, the issue was intermittent and is no longer reproducible.Ĥ.ğor majority of the users, the underlying cause of the performance issue was identified to be related to span columns, cross-references, third party plugin etc. As the part of our investigation, we had reached out to many of you personally over email. We had launched our investigation into the matter to get to the root cause of the problem. Thank you for your patience all this while.
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