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Revision History

Version date notes

2.0.0 18 July 2005 First draft for InDesign CS2 modifications.

2.1.0 19 April 2006 Updated for release of version 2.1 of EasyCatalog

2.1.1 18 March 2008 Removed reference to missing images folder.

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About this guide

This QuickStart Guide is intended to get you up-and-running with EasyCatalog as quickly as possible – further information on the features of EasyCatalog can be found in the User Manual.

Several data and InDesign files accompany this tutorial, and are required to follow the steps outlined below. By following these actions, you should be able to quickly configure EasyCatalog and gain an insight into the options available for working with your data.

You need not complete every section in this tutorial – only the first, ‘First Steps’, is required.

Package Contents

This tutorial package contains the following files:

Quick Start.pdf This document

Tutorial Files stock.csv Example data file Tutorial7a.indl Simple flow-based pagination example Tutorial7b.indl Grouped data pagination example Pagination.indd Pagination template containing paragraph styles required for grouped data pagination


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First Steps

Introduction

In this chapter, you’ll learn how to configure EasyCatalog so that you can import your data, and how to import your data into an EasyCatalog panel.

Configuring EasyCatalog

EasyCatalog uses a ‘Workspace’ folder to store a snapshot of each data source when it is acquired – this workspace folder, in addition to a local cache of data, stores configuration information for each ‘Project’. A project is considered to be one or more connections to a single data source.

➀ Choose a folder where

EasyCatalog can store its

data cache

To configure the workspace folder, select Edit→Preferences→EasyCatalog. ➀ Specify the folder on your local machine where EasyCatalog can store its data cache – create a new folder and direct EasyCatalog to that.

Importing Your data

For this tutorial, we will be importing data from a comma-separated values (CSV) file - data can also be obtained directly from any odbC-compliant database with the use of an additional plug-in, the ‘odbC data Provider’.

EasyCatalog adds a new sub-menu to the standard InDesign File→New menu - ‘New EasyCatalog Panel’. Listed on this sub-menu are all of the available data provider plug-ins, along with any existing data sources. If you have previously configured a data source, they will be listed on this menu and new panels can be created.


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➀ Import your data using the ‘New File Data

Source’ menu option

➀ Select the ‘New File Data Source...’ menu option - a file-picker dialog will open. Navigate to the ‘stock.csv’ file included with this tutorial and hit the ‘OK’ button. EasyCatalog will now examine the structure of the file and present the configuration dialog - many of the values shown will have been determined by EasyCatalog to be the most appropriate for the file. For example, EasyCatalog will attempt to determine whether fields are alphanumeric or purely numeric fields, and whether they are currency fields.

➀ Click in any of the fields in a column to select the column

Specify the characters that are used to

separate fields and records in the file

here.

➁ Configuration options for the field

selected in the ‘Sample’ are shown

here

The ‘Sample’ gives a preview of how the

data will be imported and formatted in

the EasyCatalog panel

The dialog is split into three main areas:

The overall file configuration options, including the characters used in the files to separate fields and records;

A preview of the data - this preview will be updated when any of the configuration options in the dialog are changed. This preview is an accurate reflection of how your EasyCatalog panel will appear.


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Field configuration options - options that determine how each field should appear on the document can be configured here. Options such as field type (alphanumeric/numeric), currency formats and image paths can all be defined. To edit the options for a field, click in any field in the column you wish to configure and hit the ‘‘Options...” button.

number Formats

We need to ensure that the currency fields are correctly configured (‘Inc. VAT’ and ‘Ex VAT’). Scroll the preview table to the right using the horizontal scroll-bar, and select the ‘Inc VAT’ field. Click the ‘Options’ button to show the field configuration dialog.

➀ Select the options to configure in this list

As the ‘Field Format’ configuration

options are changed, the example will

update to show how a positive and

negative field value will appear.

➁ Select the type of field here

➂ A number of pre-defined currency

options will be shown here,

depending on the field type selected

above.

The field configuration dialog behaves in a similar manner to the InDesign preferences dialog - a list of available properties is shown on the left, and the configuration options are shown on the right.

➀ Ensuring that ‘Field Format’ is selected in the left-hand list, ➁ select ‘Currency’ from the field type popup. A number of pre-defined currency formats will be presented in the ‘Format’ popup - ➂ select ‘Dollar’.

Click ‘OK’ to confirm the changes to this field - repeat the above process for the ‘Ex VAT’ field.

Images

Images can also be imported by EasyCatalog - each of the fields can be configured to define where the picture content files reside.

How are Images located?

EasyCatalog will use the content of a field as the filename for an image - for example, if your pictures are stored using a stock code as a filename, you would tag your image frame as ‘Stock Code’.

The field content used to identify the images may contain:

• A full path to the image field - for example, your field may contain ‘Macintosh HD:Pictures:12345.jpg’. In this instance, the file will be imported from this location and the ‘Content Location’ specified in the Field Configuration dialog will be ignored, as will the ‘Extension’.


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• The filename of the image with extension (e.g. ‘.jpg’) - for example, your field may contain ‘12345.jpg’. EasyCatalog will attempt to location this image in the folder specified in the ‘Content Location’ specified in the FIeld Configuration dialog. The extension specified in the ‘Field Options’ will be ignored.

• The filename of the image - for example, your field may just contain ‘1234’ (as would be the case with stock codes, etc). EasyCatalog will look for this image in the ‘Content Location’ path, and will append the ‘Extension’ specified in the ‘Field Options’ dialog.

Configuring Image Fields

Select the column that references the image by clicking on any field in that column. Click the ‘Field Options’ button to present the field configuration dialog.

➀ Select the options to configure in

this list

➁ Specify the location of the images

referenced by this field

➂ The file extension will be appended

to the field content to make-up the

picture filename

If a picture can not be found for a record,

the image specified here will be used

Due to the number of records in the sample file (stock.csv), we are unable to provide a folder that contains images for all of the records in the file. For the purposes of this tutorial we will not be configuring the location of images, but when working with your own data you would:

➀ Select ‘Picture Content’ from the list on the left of the dialog, and ➁ hit the ‘Choose’ button in the ‘Content Location’ area of the dialog. Navigate to the folder containing your images.

➂ Enter the file extension of the graphic files you will be using (if appropriate) - for example, if you deal exclusively with JPEG files, enter ‘.jpg’ here.

Hit the OK button to save the configuration options for this field.

That’s it!

Configuration of the data source is now complete - further configuration options are available, details of which can be found in the User Manual.

Click ‘OK’ on the ‘File Data Source Configuration’ Dialog to create your first EasyCatalog panel.


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The Panel

Introduction

The EasyCatalog Panel is your view on the data - unlike contemporary plug-ins, your data is a presented in spreadsheet-style panels. Using EasyCatalog Panels, data can be sorted, grouped, filtered - each panel also shows the current status of each record and field, such as whether it is placed on the current document.

Being able to see your data offers many other advantages - simply scroll around the table, select a field to insert in the document and hit the insert button, for instance. You do not need to know the SKU of a record in order to insert one of it’s fields.

Each panel is independent of the others - any queries, sorting or grouping configurations apply to a single panel. For example, you could have two panels open - one showing everything in the ‘Electrical’ department, one showing everything in the ‘Houseware’ department. You can even save a panel configuration and give it to another EasyCatalog user to work with!


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Sort columns by clicking in the

table header, sub-sort by shift-

clicking in the header

The status column shows

records that have been inserted,

updated and deleted since data

was last retrieved from the data

source

Multiple data sources can be

worked with simultaneously

Insert the selected

field in the document

Query, or filter, the

data displayed in the

panel

Check the document to ensure

the contents are the same as

the data source

Individual columns can be

shown or hidden

The status of each field and

record is indicated by it’s colour

in the panel: green fields are

placed in the document; red

fields are placed in the document

but their contents do not match

the data source

Data can be grouped in the panel - show or hide the contents of each group by

clicking the disclosure triangle

All fields within this group are placed on the document and their content match

the data source

One of the fields in this group is placed on the document, but it’s content does

not match the data source

The number of sub-groups or items contained within this group


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Using the Panel

Selecting records and Fields

Select a field by clicking on it

Select a row by

clicking it the status

column

The Status ColumnThe left-most column, which is always visible, shows the current status of a record.

Inserted - this field is new: it wasn’t previously in the data source and appeared as a result of retrieving the latest data

from the data source.

Deleted - this record was missing from the latest data retrieved from the data source. These records are shown as

deleted, but will remain in the panel until they are manually purged.

Updated - the record was different in the latest set of data from the data source. The fields that were modified are also

highlighted in the panel.


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Manipulating data

Sorting dataData can be sorted and sub-sorted simply by clicking in the header area of the table.

➀ Click once to perform an ascending sort, ➁ click again to reverse the sort. Clicking a third time remove the sorting and the records will appear in their original order. ➂ Shift-clicking will add a sub-sort to an already sorted panel - so you could sort by ‘Price’ order within ‘Department’, for instance.

➀ Sort a column by clicking in its header area

An icon shows the direction of sort - in this case, it is ascending. ➁ To reverse

the sort-order, click in the column header again

➂ To sub-sort, shift click in the column you would like to sort by

A number now appears beneath the sort icon, showing

the order in which fields will be sorted - in this instance,

description will be sorted within Stock Code

grouping dataIf your data contains hierarchical data - data that should be logically grouped by department, manufacturer, etc - the panel can also show the data in this hierarchical manner. More on grouping data is shown in Tutorial 6.


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reordering Columns

The order of the columns can be changed simply by dragging each column into position - the order of columns is important when working with document tables as the columns in the document will appear in the same order as the panel.

Manually reordering records

Where simple sorting does not satisfy your needs, the order of the records can be manually adjusted simply by dragging them into position.

Querying/Filtering dataIf you only need to work with a sub-set of the entire database, apply a filter to the panel. Using a query mechanism similar to the InDesign library ‘filter’, simple filters can be constructed to filter the data in the panel.

Create a query, or filter, by selecting ‘Show Subset’ from the EasyCatalog panel popout menu, or by hitting the ‘filter’ button ( ).

The query can be applied to all items

from the data source, or just those

currently visible

Data will only pass through the

filter if all of the conditions are

matched (‘Match All’), or any of

the conditions (‘Match Any One’)

Add or remove criteria here This query definition can

be saved and re-applied at

a later time

Select the field to

filter on

Select the

condition that

must be met

Enter the

value for the

condition

In this example, records will only pass through the filter when the ‘Dept’ field is equal to ‘Electrical’ and ‘Price Inc Vat’ is

less than 750

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overview

The following tutorials have been designed to give you a gradual progression through some of the many features of EasyCatalog. More information on each feature can be found in the manual.

Tutorial 1 - Placing Fields, errors and Updating the document

This tutorial covers the basics - getting fields onto the document, checking the document for errors and updating the document. At the end of this tutorial, you will have experienced how easy it is to link data from your data source to the InDesign document, and how to ensure that your document is always up to date.

Tutorial 2 - Simple Tables

Using the power of EasyCatalog’s panels, you can easily construct simple tables in the document. At the end of this tutorial, you will have learnt how to use EasyCatalog panels as a preview of how your tables will look on the document.

Tutorial 3 - Product Styles

This tutorial introduces ‘Product Styles’ - what they are, and why you may want to use them. EasyCatalog lets you design how each record should look - no complex scripting language, or heavy learning curve.

Tutorial 4 - easyCatalog Libraries

EasyCatalog Libraries are a convenient way of storing multiple Product Styles - this tutorial will show how to create an EasyCatalog Library, and how to populate the designs stored in them with real data. Using EasyCatalog Libraries, you can create complex page designs in seconds, or just experiment with different designs.

Tutorial 5 - Tables

Where you need to design tables for your publication, EasyCatalog can also help - simply show EasyCatalog how your table should look, and the table will be expanded or contracted to accommodate the amount of data being inserted.

Tutorial 6 - grouping data

Data that is structured hierarchically, such as by department and manufacturer, can be viewed in the panel in hierarchical form. The grouping configuration of the panel also affects the way in which groups are automatically paginated in the document.

Tutorial 7 - Text Flow Pagination Requires optional EasyCatalog Pagination Module.

Automatically place many thousands of records - by creating a library of Product Styles, you can show EasyCatalog how each record (and group) should be paginated. For example, include designs for group headers and individual records in the library.


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Tutorial 1 - Placing Fields, errors and Updating the document

In this tutorial, you will learn how to:

• Place a field on the document How to a field in the document that is linked to the original data

• Check the document for errors How to check the document for errors; how errors are shown in both the panel and on the document

• Update the document How to update the contents of the document with the latest data from the data source

Pre-requisites

You should have already read the first chapter of this tutorial, ‘Getting Started’, and be familiar with how to use the EasyCatalog panel.

It is assumed that you have a panel open containing the ‘stock.csv’ sample data file.

Tutorial

Placing a Field

➀ Start by creating an empty text box, ensuring

you have a text insertion point

➁ Select a single field in the EasyCatalog panel

➂ Use the insert button to insert the selected field into the text box

➃ The field is placed in the text box - green field marker

characters show the bounds of the field content and that the

document content matches the original data source

Double click on a placed field in the panel to take you to the first

instance of it in the document.


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Check the document for errors

➀ Modify the text inside of the field so that it no

longer matches the original data

➁ Use the ‘synchronize with document’ button

to check the document for errors

➂ The field marker characters show in red on the

document to indicate that there is an error - the

field in the panel is also now shown in red.

If a field is shown as being in error in the panel,

double clicking will take you to it in the document.

Updating the document

➀ Use the ‘Update Document’ menu on the EasyCatalog panel

to update the document.

You can choose to update the entire document (‘All’), only the

fields that are selected in the document (‘Selection’) or only the

fields selected in the panel (‘With Panel Selection’)

➁ The field will be updated on the document, and

the panel will update to show the field is no

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Tutorial 2 - Simple Tables

In this tutorial, you will learn how to:

• Insert a simple table into the document

Pre-requisites



Tutorial

Inserting a Simple Table

➀ Start by creating an empty text box, ensuring

you have a text insertion point

➁ Select the fields to appear in the table - to do

this, first select the top-left field

➃ Hit the ‘Insert’ button to insert the table

➂ While holding down the ‘Alt’ key, select the

bottom-right field - this will highlight all of the

fields in the selected range

➄ Column headers have been inserted, based on the field names. The columns widths are also proportioned the same

as in the EasyCatalog panel

➅ The fields in the table behave like normal

EasyCatalog fields, and are shown in green

(placed) in the panel


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Tutorial 3 - Product Styles

In this tutorial, you will learn:

• What a Product Style is, and why you would want to use one

• How to construct a Product Style

• How to populate a Product Style with data

Pre-requisites



Tutorial

What is a Product Style?

A Product Style is a grouping of InDesign text and pictures boxes which form a design for how each individual record, or group, should appear in the document.

Product Styles use place-holders (Field Specifiers) which show where field content should be inserted, and how the fields should appear (font size, style, etc).

For publications that feature a number of predefined styles, Product Styles can also be stored in EasyCatalog Libraries, allowing a collection of different styles to be stored and easily managed. When Product Styles are dragged to the document, they are populated with the data for the record currently selected in the EasyCatalog panel.

What is a Field Specifier?

In order to show EasyCatalog where field content should go, EasyCatalog provides a means of inserting placeholders, or ‘Field Specifiers’ into the design.

Field Specifiers use blue field marker characters on the document, and can have styling applied in the same way as normal InDesign text. When populated with data, Field Specifiers will retain all of this styling information.

Graphic boxes can also be tagged with Field Specifiers, and during population the image referenced by the field will be imported.

Constructing a Product Style

Product Styles are simply an extension of existing InDesign functionality, so create your Product Style using all of the familiar InDesign tools. Where field content should appear, use the ‘Field Specifiers’ menu on the EasyCatalog panel to choose the field to insert.

In order for easyCatalog to determine that all of the boxes belong to the same Product Style, they must be grouped on the document.


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Text Field Specifiers

➀ To insert a Field Specifier, ensure you have a

valid text insertion point

➁ Use the ‘Field Specifier’ menu (from the

EasyCatalog panel popout menu) to insert the

Field Specifier

The Field Specifier has been inserted into the text ➂ Apply styling to the text - this will be retained

when the Field Specifier is populated with data

Picture Field Specifiers

➀ To tag a picture box with a Field Specifier,

ensure you have an empty frame selected

➁ Use the ‘Field Specifier’ menu to tag the frame

with the Field Specifier

The frame has been tagged with the Field Specifier


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How to populate a Product Style

Populating a Product Style is as simple as dragging a record from the EasyCatalog panel to any one of the boxes in the Product Style group on the document. The Field Specifiers will be replaced with field content for the dragged record.

Drag

➀ All boxes for this Product

Style are grouped on the

document

➁ Drag the record you want

to populate the Product

Style with to the document

Field Specifiers have been

replaced with field content for

the dragged record


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Tutorial 4 - easyCatalog Libraries


• What an EasyCatalog Library is

• How to create an EasyCatalog Library

• How to use an EasyCatalog Library to create complex page designs in seconds

Pre-requisites


You should have also read Tutorial 3, which gives an overview of what a Product Style is and how to create one.


Tutorial

What is an easyCatalog Library?

EasyCatalog extends the functionality of InDesign’s libraries by allowing designs with dynamic content - Product Styles (see Tutorial 3) - to be stored. When an item is dragged from an EasyCatalog Library to the document, it will be populated with the records selected in the EasyCatalog panel.

By storing all of your Product Styles in a library, complex page designs can be produced - populated with live data - in seconds.

Creating an easyCatalog Library

There are two ways in which to create an EasyCatalog Library:

• Use the ‘File→New→EasyCatalog Library’ menu option - you will be asked for a file name and location to create your EasyCatalog Library

• Create, or open, a standard InDesign library and use the ‘EasyCatalog Library’ option on the library’s pop-out menu.


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Create a new library using the ‘New EasyCatalog

Library’ menu option

Tag an existing library as an ‘EasyCatalog Library’

using this new menu option on the library panel

pop-out menu

Populating an easyCatalog Library

Populate your EasyCatalog Library as you would a standard InDesign library - simply drag your Product Styles to the EasyCatalog Library.

➀ Group the Product Style boxes and drag it to

the EasyCatalog Library

Drag

This Product Style can now be dragged to the

document, and will be populated with the fields for

the currently selected record in the EasyCatalog

panel

Populating Product Styles from easyCatalog Libraries

Once your Product Styles are stored in an EasyCatalog Library, they can be populated with live data from an EasyCatalog panel by simply dragging them to the document. The ‘EasyCatalog Library’ option must be enabled on the library to replace Field Specifiers with field data.


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➀ Select the record

that should populate

the Product Style

in the EasyCatalog

panel

Drag

➁ Drag the Product Style

to the document

The Field Specifiers have been replaced with field content

for the selected record


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Tutorial 5 - Tables


• How to design tables that will be populated with a variable amount of data

• Populate a designed table

• How to store table designs in EasyCatalog Libraries

• Populate a table stored in an EasyCatalog Library

Pre-requisites


You should have also read Tutorials 3 and 4, which outline what a Product Style and an EasyCatalog Library are.


Tutorial

designing your table

Field Specifiers can also be included in table designs, allowing you to design how your tables should look. This table design can also be stored in an EasyCatalog Library for later population.

EasyCatalog will expand or contract the design of the table to accommodate the amount of data being used to populate it.

Design your table using the standard InDesign tools. Include Field Specifiers in the design where field content should

appear.

Field Specifiers in the header row(s) of the table will be populated with field content for the first record being used to

populate the table

Apply row and cell attributes as normal - these will be retained

Further body rows will be added to the table to accommodate the amount of data being used to

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Populating a designed table

Tables are populated in the same way as normal Product Styles - drag all of the records, or a group in the panel, to the table on the document.

The header row of the table has been populated with the fields for the first record

➁ Select the records that you want to populate the table with

Dra

g ➂ Drag the records to the table

➀ Place your table design on the document


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Populating a table stored in a library

Tables that are stored in EasyCatalog Libraries can be populated in the same way as Product Styles - select all of the records that you want to populate the table with, and drag the table to the document.

➀ Select the records to populate the table

Drag

➁ Drag the table design to the document ➂ The table design has been expanded to accommodate

the amount of data selected


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Tutorial 6 - grouping data


• How to group data in the EasyCatalog panel

• How to specify the sort-order of groups

• How to work with hierarchical data in the EasyCatalog Panel

Pre-requisites



Tutorial

When working with large volumes of data, or data that is hierarchically structured (i.e. contains groups and subgroups, such as department and manufacturer), EasyCatalog can group the data. This not only makes working with the data easier, as it is presented in a hierarchical manner, but it also affects operations such as automatic pagination (headers can be inserted on change of group, for instance).

grouping the panel

EasyCatalog provides a grouping configuration dialog to allow you to specify the hierarchical structure of the data and how the data should be sorted within each group. The grouping configuration only applies to individual panels, so different grouping configurations can be applied to different panels.

Display the ‘Grouping Configuration’ dialog by selecting ‘Group...’ from the EasyCatalog panel.


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The Grouping Configuration Dialog

The left-hand side of the dialog shows fields the are still

available (not used in the current grouping configuration)

The right-hand side of the panel shows the current grouping

configuration

➀ Select the first field to group by, ‘Parent Category’ and

hit the add button. Alternatively, double-click on Parent

Category

➁ Now do the same for ‘Child Category’ and ‘Manufacturer’

The configuration will appear on the right-hand side of the

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Specifying the sort-order of groups

Select one of the rows on the right-

hand side, then use the ‘Ascending’ and

‘Descending’ radio buttons to adjust the

sort-order of the group

In this example, the ‘Child Categories’ will be shown in descending order

Working with groups in the easyCatalog Panel

The panel will show

the new hierarchy of

the data. Click the

disclosure triangle to

expand or contract

each group

The number of sub-

groups is shown on

each group row

When opening a lowest-level group, the

individual records will be shown

Ungrouping the panel

Select ‘Ungroup’ from the EasyCatalog panel pop-out menu.


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Tutorial 7 - Text Flow Pagination


• How to design tables that will be populated with a variable amount of data

Pre-requisites



Tutorial

EasyCatalog allows large volumes to data to be placed onto the document automatically - this can be achieved either by supplying the geometry (and positional information) in the source data, or by flowing Product Styles into a text flow.

Flow-based Pagination

Flow-based pagination, so called because Product Styles are inserted into a standard InDesign text flow, uses a library of Product Styles. These Product Styles will either be inserted as anchored boxes in the pagination text flow or, if the Product Style consists of only one box, just the textual content can be inserted in the flow.

EasyCatalog uses an InDesign library for pagination - this library contains Product Styles that can be inserted for each

record being paginated, or for each group.

Each library item has a number of

pagination attributes that determine how

EasyCatalog will use it during pagination

EasyCatalog will paginate the current panel selection - the way data is grouped in the panel is also important as it determines how EasyCatalog will group data on the page. For instance, in the example library shown above, there are Product Styles for the ‘Parent Category’ and ‘Child Category’ groups.

These advanced pagination options are only available with the optional EasyCatalog Pagination module.i


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As EasyCatalog is paginating the data, it will look in the pagination library for library items that are suitable for the record or group currently being paginated. It is possible to store multiple library items for the same group or record - i.e. you could have two different headers for ‘Parent Category’ and EasyCatalog will choose the appropriate one based on simple logic that can be assigned to each style.

Simple Text Flow example

In this example, we’ll look at the simplest form of automatic pagination, whereby we’ll create a flow of text - headers will be introduced later.

In this example, we’ll be creating a simple flow of records. The order of the records is determined by any sorting or filtering

applied to the EasyCatalog panel

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Showing the Pagination rules Panel

To examine and set the pagination attributes assigned to each of the Product Styles in the library, ensure that the Pagination Rules panel is visible by opening it from the Window menu.

Open the Pagination Rules panel, if it is not already visible, using the ‘Pagination Rules’

option on the ‘Window’ menu

The ‘Pagination Rules’ panel is used to apply pagination attributes to each box in the

Product Style that will be stored in the pagination library.

The ‘Pagination Rules’ panel shows the rules for the currently-selected box on the

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➀ Create the Product Style

This Product Style is available for your inspection in ‘Library7a.indl’ (in the ‘Tutorial Files’ folder) - here we’ll examine how it was produced and the attributes that have been applied using the ‘Pagination Rules’ panel.

In this example, we want to create a simple flow of text. To define how we want our records to flow into the document, we

create a library item which contains a prototype of the record content

This library item is available in ‘Tutorial7a.indl’ - drag it to the document to inspect how it was constructed.

➀ InDesign text box

➁ Field Specifiers for each of the fields we want to appear on the document

➁ Create the Pagination Library

Creating the pagination library

A pagination library is a standard InDesign library - drag the

Product Style to you InDesign library. The pagination library

for this example is already provided for you, 'Tutorial7a.indl' in

the ‘Tutorial Files’ folder

Drag

➂ Create a text box for the Pagination flow

EasyCatalog flows the Product Styles for each group and record into a normal InDesign text flow - each Product Style will either be inserted as an inline, anchored, box or just the text content of the Product Style will be inserted in the flow.


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➃ Select the records to paginate

EasyCatalog will flow in the current panel selection - therefore you should select the records or groups that you want to paginate.

Select the groups in the panel that you would like to paginate

➀ Select the first group in the panel by clicking in the left-

hand, status, column in the panel.

➁ Select the last group you would like to paginate by

clicking in the left-hand, status, column whilst holding the

‘Alt’ key.

➂ Select ‘Paginate’ from the EasyCatalog panel pop-out

menu.

➀

➁

➂

➄ Paginate the records

The Pagination dialog allows you to configure where the library containing the Product Styles for the pagination is

➀ Hit the ‘Choose’ button to locate the pagination library. A

file-picker dialog will appear - navigate to the ‘Tutorial7a.indl’

library in the ‘Tutorial Files’ folder.

➁ Ensure 'Into Text Flow' is selected

➂ Hit the ‘OK’ button. Pagination of the selected records will

now commence.

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grouped data Pagination example

In this example, we will introduce group headers - by configuring the grouping in the panel, EasyCatalog will look for Product Styles for each of the groups. For example, each time a group changes, it will insert a new header in the document.

Here we are introducing headers for each group change - we have three levels of grouping - ‘Parent Category’, ‘Child

Category’ and ‘Manufacturer’. In the pagination library, we will include Product Styles for each of the groups - in

this instance we do not need a Product Style for individual records, as the lowest level we want to paginate with the

‘Manufacturer’ group.

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➀ group the panel

First, we need to ensure that our panel is grouped in the way we would like our data to appear on the page. This is achieved using the ‘Group Configuration Dialog’, which is available from the ‘Group’ menu on the EasyCatalog pop-out menu.

Group the panel by ‘Parent Category’, sub-grouped by ‘Child Category’ and ‘Manufacturer’:

➀ Select ‘Group’ from the EasyCatalog Panel

➁ Select ‘Parent Category’ in the left-hand pane, hit the

‘Add’ button

➂ Select ‘Child Category’ in the left-hand pane, hit the

‘Add’ button

➃ Select ‘Manufacturer’ in the left-hand pane, hit the

‘Add’ button

➄ Hit the ‘OK’ button

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➁ open the pagination template

‘Pagination.indd’ contains the paragraph style sheets required for this pagination example. Open this document, select the ‘Type’ tool and click in the main, master, text frame.

➂ Select the records to paginate

EasyCatalog will flow in the current panel selection - therefore you should select the records or groups that you want to paginate.

Select the groups in the panel that you would like to paginate

➀ Select the first group in the panel by clicking in the left-

hand, status, column in the panel.

➁ Select the last group you would like to paginate by

clicking in the left-hand, status, column whilst holding the

‘Alt’ key.

➂ Ensuring you have a valid text insertion point, select

‘Paginate’ from the EasyCatalog panel pop-out menu.

➀

➁

➂

➃ Paginate the records

The ‘Pagination’ dialog allows you to specify the location of the pagination library, and the type of pagination - in this instance, we are paginating into the current text flow

The Pagination dialog allows you to configure where the library containing the Product Styles for the pagination is located

➀ Hit the ‘Choose’ button to locate the pagination

library. A file-picker dialog will appear - navigate to

the ‘Tutorial7b.indl’ library in the ‘Tutorial Files’ folder.

➁ Ensure 'Into Text Flow' is selected

➂ Hit the ‘OK’ button. Pagination of the selected

records will now commence.

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How the Product Styles were constructed

The Product Styles for this example are included in ‘Library7b.indl’ (in the ‘Tutorial Files’ folder) - drag each one to a new document, and inspect the properties set in the ‘Pagination Rules’ panel.

The ‘Paragraph Styles’ panel in the pagination document

In this example, we want to populate all of the Product Styles with Group Data (‘Populate with Group Data’). We do not

want to paginate individual records - each individual record in this example must belong to a group (as we would get one

table for each record, not a table per manufacturer)

The two Product Styles that are used for headers will be paginated as inline,

anchored boxes (‘Insert As Inline’). When a Product Style is inserted as an

anchored box it can also, optionally, have a paragraph style sheet applied.

This style sheet must be present in the document being paginated into. Using

paragraph style sheets, you can specify keep options, spacing, etc.

The ‘Manufacturer’ Product Style will

not be inserted as an inline, anchored,

box (‘Insert Frame Contents’)

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