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After watching some of the videos on their YouTube channel, I started seeing how simple it would be to get the project rolling with their plugin. So I'm having to eat my words about Eas圜atalog not seeming like a good fit for what I needed.

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Also, I didn't have a way to keep track of where this was done, so it could be updated if the database changed.Īny examples on how to accomplish this, or articles around the web that I might've missed where someone discuses this usage of data in InDesign?

The script to over 30 seconds for each call to the webpage. I also tried using a script that utilized Bridge to load data from a locally hosted webpage that serves the formatted info for a given image or reference, based on a URL parameter.The issues with text variables are described very well over here (unfortunately I didn’t see this article till I’d finished my variable import script.) I can easily export my references and image data from the database, I planned to use GREP styles to format the reference data. Given my background in web development, I studied a bit on ExtendScript, and pulling from several scripts that are around, I made a script that will import text variables from a text file.These all seem to be centered on variable data printing (catalogs, personalized mailing, etc.) and not on placing bits of information, randomly throughout a text document.

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I've downloaded and worked with the trial version of: DataLinker, Eas圜atalog, InCatalog and InData.

This obviously moved it under the story’s node and broke it’s connection to the XML file.

After reading about how to import XML data and maintain the link to the data file, I fantasized that I could just drag the data I wanted from the structure panel, to the spot in the text where it belonged.

In a perfect world, I’d have a panel in InDesign with a list of all the image IDs and with a click, the image and caption would be inserted to the document, I’d have another panel with a list of reference IDs that would have the same functionality. Winston.) All of the data for both the photos and references are currently being stored in a database.

My book has hundreds of photos (with captions and credits) and over a thousand references (this kind of thing: Atkinson, J. I have a use case where I’d like to use a bunch of small pieces of data from a database, in random places inside a large book.