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  • 2019-11-18 at 3:56 pm #10830
    briggs
    Customer

    I get this error…

    “MyDataMerge couldn’t connect placeholders with datafields.”

    when I try to import data into a table cell even though I get green checkmarks the export fails.

    Is it not possible to import data into table cells?

    Thanks,

     

    Steve

    2019-11-18 at 4:29 pm #10831
    Pat
    Staff

    Hi briggs and welcome to the support forum,

    You CAN merge into a table cell, however, MyDataMerge currently CANNOT create new rows.
    This feature is on the roadmap (check here: https://mydatamerge.com/roadmap/)

    Please check if there’s a hyperlink on the placeholder. This is a common issue cause InDesign doesn’t allow a hyperlink to be a data merge tag (unfortunately).

    Best

    John

    Official MyDataMerge Team

    2019-11-18 at 4:37 pm #10832
    Pat
    Staff

    Edit: I just re-checked with developers.

    Merging in cells currently is not supported. The merge will work (as long as it is no hyperlink) but the merged tag might be outside of the table.
    This will be adressed when we add support for tables. Currently you might do an inline merge:

    • Build a “table row” look alike (no real table) and group it.
    • Paste it into a text frame once (as anchored element). Make sure you have one page only and only one textframe on that page.
    • Then choose inline merge in export multiple records per page
    • You can copy this textframe wherever you need it to with the complete content in it

    This way MyDataMerge will repeat this row for every data record.

    Official MyDataMerge Team

    2019-11-18 at 4:48 pm #10837
    briggs
    Customer

    Thanks for your quick response and in-depth solution, yes merging into a table would be a huge feature!

    2019-11-18 at 6:02 pm #10839
    briggs
    Customer

    One last thing for now…

    What is defining the space that is put after each chunk of info? I would like to have control over this.

    Please see the attachment

    https://adobe.ly/2XpQOIr

    2019-11-18 at 6:45 pm #10840
    briggs
    Customer

    “What is defining the space that is put after each chunk of info?”

    I have found that this is controlled by InDesign in the “anchored object settings”.

    2019-11-19 at 2:52 pm #10845
    briggs
    Customer

    I would like to correct my statement above for anyone looking to achieve this workflow.

    Using an empty text frame to define the space between each record has given much better results rather than using object anchor settings!

    2019-11-23 at 11:25 am #10893
    Pat
    Staff

    Thank you for the valuable infos!
    Did you solve the issue with this solution?

    Official MyDataMerge Team

    2019-11-23 at 7:19 pm #10898
    briggs
    Customer

    I sure did, thanks

    2019-12-04 at 6:47 am #11145
    Pat
    Staff

    Glad we could help. Just let us know if there’s anything else you need to know.

    Official MyDataMerge Team

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