In Exel Problem Write @photos for Data Merge

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Tip for Data Merge with Multiple Records (labels, etc.)

I have seen many InDesign Data Merge questions about how to create sheets of mailing labels, especially the problem of getting only one label per page, when you need 30 or more.
Adobe's instructions are poor and incomplete in that InDesign doesn't step out the records from a data source - it steps out the FRAMES that contain the data field placeholders.
That is why you only need to place a text or image frame once on a single page - during the datamerge, InDesign will create the additional FRAMES for each record, and it will create the pages required to hold them.
You do have to set the desired spacing on the
If you create the frame on a Master page, ID allows you to update the data source (when it changes) in the Data Merge tool panel.
These are very nice and robust features, but the documentation for them is confusing to many people.
You will find more great in-depth help for Data Merge, with screen captures and attachments, here in the forum.

For a multiple record merge you need one set of placeholders, then set the margins and spacing in the merge options so the positioning is correct.
Warning: Using Preview in a multiple record merge will corrupt the file. If you press the preview button, Undo after looking at the preview, then merge without using preview.

Problem in output for date field

Hi experts...
i have one requirement like if string is initial i need to display blank for date field in out put...
but it is showing 00.00.0000..
My code is...
data: V_TEMP TYPE sy-datum,
      V_TEMP1 TYPE sy-datum,
      v_str type string,
      v_str1 type string.
v_str1 = '2008091123457'.
v_str = '0'.
REPLACE ALL OCCURRENCES OF ',' IN v_str WITH SPACE.
CONDENSE v_str NO-GAPS.
v_TEMP1 = v_str1+0(8).
if v_str <> 0.
v_TEMP = v_str+0(8).
else.
v_temp = ''.
   endif.
     write:/ v_temp1 ,V_TEMP.
output is: 11.09.2008   00.00.0000(BUt i want space here just blank...)
can any body plz help me.....

Hi,
You can use something like that:
WRITE: date NO-ZERO.
Best regards.

Add the ability to use .xls and .xlsx files for Data Merge

Who wouldn't like that?!

Me! Me!
Or rather: I think the big empty part of Data Merge right now is its inability to handle XML input. Much as I detest XML, it seems like a lot of people would really like that to happen, it does appear to be a Web 2.0 -type technology that it's easy to get the InDesign Marketing team excited about.
It's easy enough to convert XLS/XLSX into CSV (or XML), so I think improving XML would be a better use of scarce resources...
(I can't believe I'm tossing out a vote in favor of XML. Kill me now!)

InDesign isn't recognizing an Excel .xls document as a data source for data merge??

Working on a data merge and I'm trying to select the .xls document that the customer provided. But InDesign (both CS3 and CS5.5) wont see it as a good file. When I turn off "Support Filetypes" in the data import window and try to force the program to use it, it says "The data source file you selected either has no records or is not a supported file format. Please fix the file, select a file that contains records, or select a supported file type"
It definitely has records. I opened it in Excel. I don't know why .xls isn't supported.
Should I try opening back up in Excel and saving as a different format such as tab delineated or whatever it's called?
Chris

You need to save a tab-delimited text file or a .csv file from the excel spreadsheet.

Problems sizing photos for wallpaper

Since the IOS software updates I have been unable to resize photos for wallpaper & lock screen, they just don't remain the size or position I set.

You can try this:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5595
If that doesn't fix things, you may want to try my workaround:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5335229?tstart=90

Problems with Photos for Mac

Last night, I upgraded to Photos and I've noticed three problems for which I'd like help.
First, Photos seems to have lost about 10 percent of my photos. When upgrading, it asked me which of my two iPhoto libraries I wanted to upgrade and it only gave me the option to select one. Now, I can't find any option to import my second library. How do I do that and add my missing photos?
Second, I spent months organizing curating my iPhoto library, which consists of 35,000 photos, into various events. The new Photos app has completely obliterated that hard work by removing "events" from the organization and then by jumbling photos into what seems to be, at times, a random ordering. Is there any way to resurrect my events and the prior chronology I had established for my photos? I am absolutely fuming at what occurred.
Third, even though I turned on iCloud support for my Photo library, and purchased additional iCloud storage for my photos, no additional photos from my Mac's photo library seem to be appearing on my iPhone or iPad. Is anyone else having that issue?
In sum, I'm not sure what benefits this supposed upgrade from iPhoto actually provides to consumers. It destroys consumers' prior work, replaces it with chaotic organization -- especially for consumers with large photo libraries -- and its most compelling feature -- iCloud support -- doesn't seem to work.
Apple, I have been a loyal customer for many years but I must say that the quality of your software upgrades, both on the Mac and the iPhone/iPad, is deteriorating sharply. It used to be that when a consumer bought your products or loaded your software, it worked with few apparent bugs. Now, I increasingly find that major features don't work well or don't work at all. I am beginning to feel the frustration and irritation with Apple that I felt with Microsoft and that had made me flee Windows for OS.

Second, I spent months organizing curating my iPhoto library, which consists of 35,000 photos, into various events. The new Photos app has completely obliterated that hard work by removing "events" from the organization and then by jumbling photos into what seems to be, at times, a random ordering. Is there any way to resurrect my events and the prior chronology I had established for my photos? I am absolutely fuming at what occurred.
Use the feedback form to let the developer team know: Apple - Mac OS X - Feedback
This apparent mess is intentional. Photos organization of the library is automatic. It will structure the library by Moments - grouping the photos by location and date.
The only organization you can add are albums and smart albums based on keywords, etc.
However, your events should have been migrated. You should be seeing a folder "iPhoto Events", with albums for each event. Is this folder missing?

Optimal read write performance for data with duplicate keys

Hi,
I am constructing a database that will store data with duplicate keys.
For each key (a String) there will be multiple data objects, there is no upper limit to the number of data objects, but let's say there could be a million.
Data objects have a time-stamp (Long) field and a message (String) field.
At the moment I write these data objects into the database in chronological order, as i receive them, for any given key.
When I retrieve data for a key, and iterate across the duplicates for any given primary key using a cursor they are fetched in ascending chronological order.
What I would like to do is start fetching these records in reverse order, say just the last 10 records that were written to the database for a given key, and was wondering if anyone had some suggestions on the optimal way to do this.
I have considered writing data out in the order that i want to retrieve it, by supplying the database with a custom duplicate comparator. If I were to do this then the query above would return the latest data first, and I would be able to iterate over the most recent inserts quickly. but Is there a performance penalty paid on writing to the database if I do this?
I have also considered using the time-stamp field as the unique primary key for the primary database instead of the String, and creating a secondary database for the String, this would allow me to index into the data using a cursor join, but I'm not certain it would be any more performant, at least not on writing to the database, since it would result in a very flat b-tree.
Is there a fundamental choice that I will have to make between write versus read performance? Any suggestions on tackling this much appreciated.
Many Thanks,
Joel

Hi Joel,
Using a duplicate comparator will slow down Btree access (writes and reads) to
some degree because the comparator is called a lot during searching. But
whether this is a problem depends on whether your app is CPU bound and how much
CPU time your comparator uses. If you can avoid de-serializing the object in
the comparator, that will help. For example, if you keep the timestamp at the
beginning of the data and only read the one long timestamp field in your
comparator, that should be pretty fast.
Another approach is to store the negation of the timestamp so that records
are sorted naturally in reverse timestamp order.
Another approach is to read backwards using a cursor. This takes a couple
steps:
1) Find the last duplicate for the primary key you're interested in:
cursor.getSearchKey(keyOfInterest, ...)
status = cursor.getNextNoDup(...)
if (status == SUCCESS) {
      // Found the next primary key, now back up one record.
      status = cursor.getPrev(...)
} else {
      // This is the last primary key, find the last record.
      status = cursor.getLast(...)
}2) Scan backwards over the duplicates:
while (status == SUCCESS) {
      // Process one record
      // Move backwards
      status = cursor.getPrev(...)
}Finally another approach is to use a two-part primary key: {string,timestamp}.
Duplicates are not configured because every key is unique. I mention this
because using duplicates in JE has more overhead than using a unique primary
key. You can combine this with either of the above approaches -- using a
comparator, negating the timestamp, or scanning backwards.
--mark

Is there a limit to the number of columns in a spreadsheet to be used for Data Merge?

I need 60 fields for each record - my test data of 6 records adds random breaks when exported as a txt file, causing it not to merge correctly and create many extra records with varying fields (about 214 records) when merged.
I read somewhere it was 20 but this seems rather limiting! I did try reducing my document to 20 column records but I am still having issues with the txt file breaking the record up into mulitple record lines. I have removed the line breaks from the spreadsheet.

I've done just over 40 before. If you are getting line breaks and/or bad importing it is usually due to something amiss in a cell. Usual culprit is line breaks in a cell. Missing headers or illegal characters in a header can cause a breakdown at import as well.
I would recommend opening the csv in a good text editor to review the data for line breaks first thing. Oh, and I always use tab delimited as well. A misplaced or missing quote mark (iif used in the text of a cell can also cause an import failure.
Each line in a good Excel export when opened should begin with the data in your first column. If not, that indicates a line break in some cell.
Mike

Extraction problem - selection conditions for data load using abap program

Hi All,
I have a problem loading data over a selected period where the selection of date range is done using ABAP routine (type 6). Here though in the request header tab in monitor screen i'm able to see the selection date range populated correctly, no records are being extracted. But if i delete the abap filter and directly give the same date range for selection we are able to extract data. if any body has faced similar problem and have a solution for it please help me with yur suggestion.
Thanks,
nithin.

It seems the the data range is not properly set in the routine.
You can check the value of selection period generated by routine in the data selection tab-> execute button is there .
Click it to to test the selection values generated by the ABAP routine..
If the value here seems correct one then paste the code of the routine that u have written with brief logic details that u have applied.
Sonal.....

Syncing problems-lost photo's data etc...

Hi, I synced my phone yesterday for the 1st time since february, after syncing it said it was backing up, after about 4 hours a message appeared saying (an error has occured while backing up i-phone) and click to continue back up which i did, when it had finished i unplugged it, when i looked at the phone all of my apps, Photos, recent calls, voicemail, text messages almost everything missing like it had been restored to factory settings. I plugged phone in again and then it started syncing again, when it had finished i unplugged and looked again, most apps were back on but everything from february missing, texts etc..it had re-instated e-mails that i had deleted from months ago, its like its gone back in time. The main thing i am bothered about is my photo's, treasured pictures of my kids, holidays etc...I cant believe whats happened and just wondered if anyone knows if its possible to get my phone back to how it was before yesterdays sync??
Thankyou

fineashca wrote:
The main thing i am bothered about is my photo's, treasured pictures of my kids, holidays etc...I cant believe whats happened and just wondered if anyone knows if its possible to get my phone back to how it was before yesterdays sync??
Thankyou
Are you kidding me? You have treasured photos of your kids and you haven't backed up your phone in over 6 months?
Leaving precious memories like that on a device that can be lost, stolen, or easily broken is just beyond comprehension to me.
Please, please read the User Guide to see how photos, music and contacts are meant to be synched and saved.
You ARE backing up your home computer, right? Hard drives WILL fail. Just a matter of time.
http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/iphone_user_guide.pdf

Data Merge for addresses, wont remove blank fields

Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt. Today it worked for a file, came back to it late with nothing unchanged and it wasnt working...
Im working with addresses for data merge and everyhting works fine but with the fields (like Address 2, Address 3, etc...) that are unused, I have it set to "Remove blank lines for empty fields" in the options but it will not work. Why doesnt this seem to work?

It didn't work in CS2.
I was told that it was initially broken in CS3, but later fixed (I cannot confirm as I skipped that version).
It doesn't work in CS4.
So, apparently Adobe managed to break a feature that did work, but haven't fixed it again.
-mt

MBP Screen displaying photos and text merging and distorting.

Hi Folks
I purchased A Brand new MBP in August 08 (details below) and transferred my information from my old Powerbook G4 using Target disk mode and upgraded to 10.5.5 .However within a week it randomly began displaying the following problems:
1.Photos distorting and merging into each other whilst using MAIL application and when scrolling on Safari.Text piling up on itself
Example : http://d.imagehost.org/0297/mergetextexample.png
2.Safari losing it's side scrolling bar Example : http://d.imagehost.org/0262/SafariScrollprob.jpg
3.Flickering when viewing flash videos.
4.Jerky scrolling when using the two finger method.
I had a Genius in Sydney look at problem and he diagnosed it as a corrupt file issue.He(I think) rebuilt the Plist in Library and that solved it on the day however, Two weeks after on My return to Ireland,same problem re-emerged and has not gone away. It occurs randomly every few days or so.
I contacted Apple in Ireland and they advised an "Archive and reinstall" which I have done taking my system to 10.5.2 and refraining from updating in case it was an update issue. Same problem has re occurred.
I am now thinking of Erase and reinstall... Does anyone have an idea of a solution?
Sincere thanks in advance.
Francis

An Erase and Install should fix the problem, but it is a pretty radical solution. Actually the Archive and Install should have fixed it.
There are a couple of things you might try first.
Try a Safe Boot and see if the problem is still there.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455?viewlocale=en_US
The Safe boot will disable all many functions and empty some temporary caches. Sometimes the temporary font cache will become corrupted, and a safe boot will empty it. If all is well with a Safe Boot, you can start looking at all the things that were disables and see if you can isolate the cause of your problem.
After making a good backup, download the combo update from the Apple download site and bring your OS up to date. Be sure to repair permissions before and after doing this.
It does sound like there is some sort of a consensus that the problem is software related. Was your PB running Tiger? I'm wondering if some piece of downloaded software you migrated is the OS X 10.4 version instead of the OS X 10.5 version? You might want to check on things like that. Be sure all your software is updated for Leopard.
Good luck!

CS3 Data Merge - Missing Fileds in Data Merge Dialog Box

Indesign CS3 5.0.1, XP SP2
Hi all,
I have a document that I have applied a Data Merge to.
I use a table in Excel 2003 with contact details, name, address etc...
When I open the Automation> Data Merge Dialog box I no longer see the list off all the fields as in Excel.
However, I can preview and create the mail merged document and place items using tags e.g <<Field 1>>.
When I try to remove the Data Source InDesign always crashes But I can relink to a new Data Source, this does not solve the problem.
Thank-you all for your time and help!
Alu

>>Did you perform the merge? Once you do, ID creates a new document. Which document are you looking at?
I am using the original document, not the product of the mail merge.
>>I assume it's a CSV file. ID can't use and Excel file for data merge.
Correct.
I have tried saving the document as an .inx file and then re-opening, but I still cannot view the .csv data merge fields from the Automation> Data Merge dialog box.
Any Ideas? - thx for the response Bob & K

Data merge skipping one cell

Hello, having a problem in IDCS4 where data merge is skipping a cell in the EXCEL tab-del .txt file. i've saved both documents different ways (the txt through word, text edit, excel, etc.) done inx and save as with the id file. I'm doing business cards and its skipping one of the "titles", going into the next row - so everybody after that has the wrong title. i've tried adding a fake line or 2 with crap data to get it to reset, ive duplicated the column, but those doesnt work. theres no funky characters in that cell, i've rearranged everything and it always skips the second rows "titles" cell. saved as INX to IDCS3 and it works perfectly - using the same .txt file. any ideas? thanks in advance.
ok done some more testing
if i have the title seperated into another text box, it works correctly, while the other one still doesn't - everything is styled the same, and i have no options checked in the merge prefs.

I'll hop on the obvioius guess and ask "Does that title have a comma in it?"
When building data merge CSV files I make a textbox on the pasteboard, paste all of the data out of excel, do a find for the comma character and replace it with a word I know isn't used in my file "marklar" from south park, then replace the tabs with commas and paste that into a plain text editor, save that out as CSV. In any case I suggest when working with data merge to never use CSV as your working editing file as Excel has a tendency to format cells for no apparent reason when opening CSV. Short of having manual calculation set and knowing that everyone who touches the files also does there is room to be burned.
Edit: Mac 2008 Excel is what I have.

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