Possibility of variable data

I am creating a one off sales presentation for a client. They would like to be able to tailor the presentation to each individual contact by personalizing a headline with their name, much like variable data. Is it possible to accomplish this without having to resubmit a publication each time? Possibly by linking the presentation to an HTML file that gets updated with each sales pitch?

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I'm doing a multiple record data merge, I have 2 frames both with variable data placed inside.
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Is it possible?
I thought that perhaps if I place the text frame that must merge once on the master page, it would work. But you are not allowed to place variable text on the master and on the document page.
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Suzanne,
If you were trying to post a screen shot, you would need to return to the forum and post it using the "camera" icon at the top of the post editing windows.
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Dear Experts,
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Hi Ramesh,
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Variable data and InDesign interface

I have a proposal that will have variable data in it and needs to stay editable. I created the document in InDesign and not sure what program I can use to create the interface in.
What I want is to set up an interface that either I or someone in my office fill out or select certain items they want in the proposal and it creates a document (that is still editable, just in case there are a few tweeks they want)
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Variable data persists through transfer

Good afternoon all!
Problem: Calls that are answered by CTIOS agent and then transfer fail with busy signal to queue if no agents are available at LAA
Components: UCCE 7.5, UCM 7.1.3, IP IVR 7.0.4 (Hardware conferencing used via 3845 ISR device)
I've run across a challenge that has probably been happening for a while. I've started to see a lot of calls failing through queues to agents. One of the things we do is all calls come into our center and hit an IVR for the customer to pick a department. So right off the bat we transroute the call to VRU for IVR treatment. The customer picks their option and the call is sent to the agent in the center who answers the customer.
The problem begins when the agent determines the customer may need to be transferred to another group due to whatever reason the customer ended up in the wrong department. The customer will press the CONF button in CTIOS and enter the 4 digit transfer DN for the next group. Sometimes that goes through another transroute sometimes not depending on agent availability. The first thing all calls should do in every script is check Variable9 data to see if the call has already passed through a transroute to VRU node. If that is TRUE the call goes around the transroute and connects to the queue to skill node.
At this point the customer is on hold in CTIOS and the agent is trying to find another agent in another group via supervised conference. What I'm seeing is when the above happens the second leg of the call (the conference call) will KEEP the Variable9 data saying its been through a transroute and the call will take the fail path on the queue node and ring busy. If I put ANOTHER transroute under there it transroutes successfully. We use hardware to bridge CONF/Transfer calls through our PBX also so not sure if the 3845 is playing any tricks in this scernario.
My question would be can I stop the CONF leg of the call from passing variable 9 data since it's a new leg on a call so the transroutes properly work as designed or should I just continue to drop another transroute under queue paths to cover this perceived issue? I'm also open to all other suggestions on best possible scenario to handle this situation.
Edit: In the interest of rewriting my entire post I do understand I want all my variable data to pass to the new agent being conferenced ultimately. My goal is for that to happen AFTER the conf and not on both legs of the call which seems to cause this issue.

Surya,
Please take a look at the Wiki e-book. It seems you are trying the Chart of Accounts template.
https://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/B1/SAPBusinessOne...ToGo-10.DataTransfer+Workbench
Also, the SDK Help files have useful information about the valid values for different objects.
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Variable Data in Symbol

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Not sure if AI is suited for this or not...
I would like to be able to create a symbol, that when placed in a document, it can pull from a dataset to populate certain data. The customers phone number and address for example.
I have played around with variable data for some things, but trying to accomplish this has been less than fruitful...

function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
Specifically, I was referring to AI's "Variable" panel and Dynamic object. Dynamic Text to be more exact.
So all the Variables are text Variables? There are no GraphData, Visibility, or LinkedFile Variables involved?
For my own purposes, I have devised a Javascript that populates the Variables Palette with DataSets from ordinary tab-delimited text. But again, I would have to see a thorough description of your problem to tell you if it is applicable to your situation.
function(){return A.apply(null,[this].concat($A(arguments)))}
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Assuming the XML file is formed to Illustrator's liking, you could also probably accomplish the auto-import with a Javascript that runs at launch. But that would, of course, just load one row (one DataSet) of the data into the bound objects. What's the big deal about using the Import XML command when the file is opened?
So, if I have a template that has Dynamic Text elements, I should be able to open a file and have the data pulled from the XML dataset on open, automatically populating the variable text elements.
Again, I don't know what you mean by "have the data pulled." The bound objects on the page will only contain one DataSet (one "row" of the data, were it tabular data) at a time. You could then use a mere Action (macro) to cycle through the DataSets and export the versions, if that's what you're talking about. But a startup script would only import the data Variable Library into the Variables Palette. Again, that's a one-shot deal; I don't see what's the big deal about invoking one command in the UI to load the whole Library.
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This will work well for variable text elements that are in the document. However, if I create an Illustrator symbol and try to make the text dynamic, it does not appear to work. I can go through the motions, but loading different datasets doe snot appear to affect the symbol.
Ilustrator Symbols cannot be bound as Variable objects. There are four types of Variables: Text, GraphData, LinkedFile, and Visibility. Why do you need this to be a Symbol? Is it required that multiple instances of the same column from the DataSet occur in various places on the page? If so, the Variables Palette is probably not your best solution. You would have to have multiple columns in your DataSet containing the same value, because even with ordinary textFrame objects, you cannot bind several to one Variable.
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First, I would like to accomplish this within AI if possible, so whatever tools AI may give me, is what I am talking about.
Workarounds are conceivable. But frankly I probably wouldn't bother (again, depending upon the specifics of the problem). InDesign provides a proper and straightforward data merge feature that works with ordinary tab delimited text, so you can enter the same placeholder as many times as you need on a page, and anywhere within a textrange (whereas Illustrator's Variables feature does not allow binding of multiple variables within a single textFrame).
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Variable data in Illustrator

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Before I go crazy here, I am wondering if you can populate a document with a different image and name using variable data.
Can the image and name be outside the document in an excel sheet for example? If so, how would images be handled...
If anyone could lead me to a really good tutorial on this, I would he very grateful.
The ones I have found so far, are not helping me.
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Babs,
You can use the Variable Data feature (the Variables palette) to create DataSets. You can then "bind" objects on the page to act as "placeholders," so to speak, for the text, images, visibility settings, or graph data that is contained in the current DataSet. You can then switch between DataSets to automatically re-populate the "placeholders." You can then semi-automate the swapping out of the DataSets to, for example, run exports or saves or prints in batch mode.
The file that contains the data can be an external file that you import as an Illustrator Variables Library.
However, the Variables feature set is based on XML, not on ordinary tab-delimited rows/columns like you are accustomed to in Excel. So you can't import an Excel file or any other ordinary row/column delimted text file into the Variables palette to create your DataSets. Excel and other programs (FileMaker Pro, for example) can export XML from their rows/records. But unfortunately that's not all there is to it.
XML is a tag-based markup language. An XML file doesn't necessarily follow a consistent rows/column kind of order germane to a spreadsheet or database table. The occurrances of Column/Row intersections (Elements) can be arbitrary. For example, imagine a spreadsheet with columns A, B, and C, and rows 1, 2, and 3. The arrangement in an XML file is not necesarily:
1A, 1B, 1C
2A, 2B, 2C
3A, 2B, 2C
It may be:
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So an XML file has to be "described" in order to be understood by the program that imports it. The XML file contains reference to a Schema or a Document Type Definition (DTD file) for that purpose. So to use Illustrator's Variables palette in that way, you have to get somewhat into the arcana of XML.
That's about the extent of what I know about XML. Correction by anyone who acutally understands and works with XML is welcome.
I haven't taken any polls, of course, but I dare say that the vast majority of users who actually ever touch the Variables palette just tediously enter the data directly into the bound objects in the Illustrator document and capture the DataSets as they go. A small minority does that with just a few sample DataSets, then exports the DataSets as a Variables Library (an XML file), and uses that file as the "template" into which they then insert the rest of the data from their spreadsheet or whatever, using a script or some other semi-automated routine. An even smaller minority actually creates the ready-to-import XML file from scratch.
I have found it possible to import XML exported from FileMaker Pro directly into InDesign. But I cannot do that in Illustrator. For text-only purposes, I have resorted to writing a Javascript that lets me enter (or paste) ordinary tab-delimited text into a text object in Illustrator. The script then converts that text to Variable DataSets. I imagine it would not be hugely difficult to modify that script to also accommodate references to linked images, but I have not had the occasion or need to do so.
I personally think the Variables feature would have been of much broader value across the AI user base had it been based on straightforward tabular data, like the data merge features in many programs, instead of XML. I guess that would be anethema to the XML users whom I assume must have asked for this feature being implemented this way. Or, it may have just been driven by Adobe-internal "me, too" gotta-have-it direction.
JET

Variable data entry in BPC

Hi Forum,
Does anyone know if it is possible to have a mechanism for variable data entry in the budget process in BPC ? What we are trying to do is setup a budget data entry template which allows budget holders to input a variable number of capex projects as rows, this will not be a set number and will have different descriptions but will be a variable number depending on the business unit. There is no way that I can see to setup this centrally in the BPC administrator so the options we have are to store this on the budget template and then send the consolidated value (ie sum of the projects) using the BPC send or have some kind of relational form which the end user inputs to.
I would apprecitae it if anyone can let me know if my assumptions are correct or if there are any other approaches that I can take ?
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Ok,
Hoe bout this? I have a process where users needs to allocate new stores to different brands that they need to open. This number can vary and they all know how many stores that they would like to open per brand.
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There are other programs that work through InDesign and Photoshop, using scripts to insert the variable data into the Photoshop text layer.
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I’m unfamiliar with Direct Smile.
But for text-manipulation in Photoshop You might want to consider converting the Text to a Smart Object which can then be warped or treated with the Distort-Filter Displace, all the while maintaining the text-layer within the SO and thusly its editability.
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In Design and Variable Data Printing....

Does In Design have VDP capabilities. I am thinking of designing a 2 part NCR form that is numbered. Is it possible to include the numbering sequence in the design so that as it prints it numbers each form sequentially (similar to name and address info but a specific number)?
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on the indystimer website there is no set of instructions or tutorials but the script is only used to generate the range of numbers that I want for the database e.g. 000201-000500. this can be done in excel too but i just find the indysnumbergenerator a lot quicker.
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to make a datamerge so that the end result is pages printed single sided but in duplicate so the records appear:
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pdf page 4 - record 2 bottom sheet...
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I am trying to create a variable data Illustrator file but with a catch, I have to create multiple points of data on one artboard. I am using a template with 36 identical shapes, and I'm trying to add a different image to each based off of using variable data. I understand the premise of creating multiple output files based off of an illustrator file and data, but I have to create a single output file using 36 points of data, all QR codes. The reason is that this 36-up 14.5" x 14.5" sheet will be printed on a large format inkjet and then be fed into another machine (not a cutter) that requires that specific layout for it's process. I cannot create individual files, I need sheets based off of my 14.5" x 14.5" 36-up template.
Any suggestions other than making each shape in the template a separate variable (even though they are all the exact same shape) would be greatly appreciated.
My goal is to populate each of these shapes with a different QR code and then output the whole sheet as a single .EPS or .PDF file.

My goal is to populate each of these shapes with a different QR code and then output the whole sheet as a single .EPS or .PDF file.
You're barking up the wrong tree for this with Illustrator's Variables palette.
Think of it like this:
Imagine a typical spreadsheet with multiple rows of the same kind of data, except for the first row which serves as the "labels" of the columns.
The on-page objects which you define as Variables in Illustrator correspond to the first row; the column labels.
The datasets correspond to the following rows of values below the label row.
Cycling through the datasets simply moves up and down the rows, revealing one row's data at a time for each of the column labels.
Your multi-up array does not fit that data model. You are essentially trying to make a layout showing all the individual cells below the single label of one column (downward across all rows). (Illustrator's Variables feature doesn't even let you put multiple instances of a single variable in the document, so that the same value occurs in multiple places.)
You're trying to build the functional equivalent of a typical "gang up" press sheet, like a 10-up layout of business cards, each showing the same kind of data (name, phone, etc.) for multiple employees, so that you don't have to do separate press runs for each employee. That's certainly a common need, and one quite appropriate to a program like Illustrator. But Illustrator's Variables feature does not do that.
Essentially, what you are wanting to do is to replicate the basic functionality of any program which is used to print labels from data (like the typical mail merge function for address labels which are ganged up with some number of different labels on a page). What you want could be done in Illustrator via a custom JavaScript, but it would be a pretty silly exercise in reinventing the wheel. If it were me, I'd probably build the solution in FileMaker Pro (a database program), depending on the specific graphics requirements. However, you should be able to do it in InDesign, using its data merge feature.
JET

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