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  • 2022-10-20 at 3:11 pm #17409
    Darcy Mackay
    Customer

    Hi – new to MyDataMerge so have a few questions.

    Firstly, when using the autolink option the only way to get my charts (labelled chart-w1, chart-w2, etc.) to autolink as a replace with image is to add the specific names of each chart into the preferences in settings. How come just putting ‘chart’, or ‘chart-‘ or ‘chart-w’ doesn’t register the placeholders?

    Secondly, after autolinking the placeholders I am having to go into each placeholder one by one and toggle the ‘Download Image’ option in settings – is there no way to set this as the setting for all replace with image placeholders, rather than having to change them individually? I have upwards of 70 charts in the data merge so it is an inconvenience to go through them like this.

    Thanks for your help!

    2022-10-20 at 4:40 pm #17410
    Pat
    Staff

    Hi Darcy

    we’re already planning a more sophisticated autolink feature with better predefining. But at the moment, the preferences is the onliest location to define image placeholder names (without wildcard *).

    Secondly we already have it on the roadmap to save a placeholders setup as preset and allow to bulk apply it to others. But at the moment you’re right, you have to edit each single one.

    Regards
    Pat

    Official MyDataMerge Team

    2022-10-26 at 9:11 am #17433
    Holger Hartmann
    Member

    Hello,

    I also have a question about the image autolink function.

    Do I understand correctly that there is NO wildcard autolink and I have to set the appropriate names in the configuration?

    Or can I specify “Img” as wildcard in the configuration and “Img1” and “Img-border” will be recognized as image with autolink?

    Best regards,
    Holger

    2022-10-26 at 1:51 pm #17434
    Pat
    Staff

    Hi Holger

    Currently you understand this correctly.

    But we have good news for you and Darcy. In the next update (which is probably a major update to 2.0) we have included (beside other new stuff) a better autolink.

    Then you can name your placeholder in indesign like this

    <<Name>>  Will autolink data column Name as Text replacement

    <<@Image>> Will autolink data column Image as an image replacement

    With this you can directly tell MyDataMerge how to handle placeholders directly from your indesign document.

    Let us know what you think

    Regards

    Pat

    Official MyDataMerge Team

    2022-10-26 at 1:58 pm #17435
    Holger Hartmann
    Member

    Hi Pat,

    Thanks for your quick reply.
    Great! Then I look forward to the update :-)

    Best regards,
    Holger

    2022-10-27 at 11:09 am #17439
    Pat
    Staff

    Darcy is there anything else we can help you with?

    Regards

    Pat

    Official MyDataMerge Team

    2022-11-02 at 7:36 pm #17461
    Pat
    Staff

    Closed due to no response

    Official MyDataMerge Team

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