Is CS6 capable of 'Data Mapping' from an excel based database?

I have CS6 and want to know if it is capable of data mapping from an excel based database.
Basically i am using inDesign to create new Organisational Charts for my company. i have 23 seperate documents created, all of which conatin; 1 image box and 2 text boxes per each employee in that particular department.
I want each document from inDesign to point at the database and pull in the correct details to each box within that document.
I am aware of the 'place' feature but all this does is allow to you to select a range of cells and dump that in the document randomly.
i have tried ringing adobe and they ponted me to here.
I am a man on the edge with this... someone please help. Even if its to say 'NO' inDesign does not support this feature.
Thanks in advance, Danny.

Danity7 wrote:
My companies views, much like my own (something which seems to be frowned upon in this forum 'opinions/views') when we have spent a considerable amount of money on the software, we belived the answer to using certain features or at least the answer to 'know' if the software is capable of doing a particular commend wouldnt come at an extra cost.
Well, without more information on your data, the layout in ID, and how you expect to connect them, as Mike has already said, it's pretty hard to tell you what out of the box capabilities ID has that will work, if any, or where to point you to other commercial add-on products if they exist, or even to suggest a scripted solution, though my current reaction is that you are looking at some sort of XML workflow, which is well outside my own comfort zone.
ID is a very complex program that has many more capabilities than what are "built-in" in the standard release versions. One of it's greatest features is the ability to expand what you can do through scripts or plugins. This forum is full of free advice, but very few participants are willing to to spend more than an hour designing a custom solution that will not be useful to anyone else unless they are compensated. The people who respond here are professionals, like you, who need to make a living. If I were paid for the time I spend here handing out free solutions and advice I wouldn't need my regular design business anymore.
If you feel a feature should be included in the general release at no additional cost, please ask Adobe to do so: Adobe - Feature Request/Bug Report Form
You need to understand, though, that Adobe is a big corporation that budgets the time that developers can spend on new features, and most new things that are added are features that many users have asked for, and usually over the course of several versions (long document users are still waiting for improved footnotes, unchanged since they were introduced), so unless this is a "killer" new idea that will benefit thousands of users you are unlikely to see Adobe add it any time soon, if at all.

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