I am creating progress reports around 50 different companies in InDesign. The report is 10 pages long and has approximately 40 images and text fields that need to change based on the company.
I set up a data merge in InDesign and mapped all of the text and image fields. When I execute the data merge the text and images are mapping perfectly but it's creating one large 500 page report (10 pages x 50 companies). I.e. Report for Company A is on pages 1-10, report for Company B is on pages 11-20, and so on.
While I could break this up into individual reports in AcrobatPro, this step seems like it should be unnecessary. How can this be automated, preferably within InDesign? And how would I then be able to save each file based on a field in the merge csv?
I agree with Nicolai, I don't think default data merge option can create split documents.
Maybe you can use the following script to split your documents into the parts
https://creativepro.com/free-script-splits-long-indesign-files/
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I have a pdf file with 1400 pages containing resumes.. there is an excel sheet with list of unique id for each candidate.. is there some tool which could search those ids one by one and print pages containing them.
searching them one by one and printing is very time consuming. there are more then 700 candidates.
I'm working on auto generated word documents that consist of multiple test reports.
I want to automatically create a table of contents where one entry refers to one report.
But I can't simply use headings because each entry should contain info that is not on one line in the report.
Something like this:
No.
Test Id
Description
Result
Page number
1
ANZ-131QZXY
UV Light test
Passed
3
2
ANZ-132QYXX
Heat resistence test
Failed
8
I know how I can retrieve the information from the individual reports in VBA but I got stuck on how to generate the table. Is it even possible to add entries manually to a ToC without a heading existing?
PS: I use Word 365 and it's important that the ToC will work when saving the document as PDF.
I need to use COGNOS 10 to generate a report that will have about 300 pages. I want each page saved as a separate pdf file. Is there a way to automagically do this or do I need to run the report 300 times manually.
You can try bursting. Assuming that each page breaks on a specific grouping, you could set up a page-set that groups on the grouping you intend to page-break and then have it burst to that same grouping. You should get a PDF file for each of the groups. Therefore, if there are 300 groupings, 300 page-breaks, and 300 burst groupings then the net result will be 300 separate PDF files.
Currently there is no way to do this from within Cognos with a single report. You can only have one output file per individual report run. There shouldn't be a need for separate outputs from a single report, perhaps you can provide your scenario and maybe the community can find alternatives.
The best workaround I can think of would be to make 300 separate reports and run them as a job.
I am working with a database with 5 tables, all of which contain different sets of information about clients and their employees. If you drill down in any table for data relating to a particular client, many rows will return according to the number of their employees in the dataset.
If I were to manually run the reports I need, I would query each table, one at a time, for all results where a particular client number is specified. Then I would export each table to a .csv, and then copy those exports into the same excel workbook with 5 tabs (corresponding to the 5 tables in the SQL database). At the end I would have an individual workbook for each client.
A complicating factor is that not every client ID appears in each of the 5 tables. Preferably, I would not export empty datasets and clients with data in only three of the tables would have only three tabs in the final workbook.
Is there way of giving to SQL server a list of Client IDs, for which it should query the 5 tables, export the existing data, and (possibly / hopefully) combine in a workbook on separate tabs.
Your question is rather vague and broad, but here's the key bits of information you'll need to investigate to get things going:
Create five different datasets, each querying one table.
Create five tablixes, add a PageBreak before each tablix so in Excel they will land on different tabs.
Either set a NoRowsMessage or hide the tablix along these lines using an expression based on the RowNumber function
Create a parameter for selecting the client ID, and use that in your WHERE clause of the datasets.
The tricky bit would be how to generate multiple Excel files. SSRS does one export at a time, so your basic options:
Put multiple clients in one XLS (i.e. don't use a parameter, but include clientId as a column on the worksheets)
Have the user select one client at a time, and export one XLS at a time.
Automate generating the reports.
I am designing a report that shows product id, description and then quantities and dollar values for 7 different regions plus total quantity and total dollars for each product row) and also sums every column (all the quantities and dollar values). This report gets exported to a .rtf file and then emailed to various people. My current setup has the report being 22-inches wide. In Access, it shows up perfectly in Report View (product id, description, and regions 1-4 quantities and dollars on one page and regions 5-7 plus the total section on the other). When it exports it to a .rtf, it doesn't show the second page (unless you are in draft mode in Word).
I am looking for an easy way or some type of direction to have everything display correctly when exported. I've been playing around with layout, spacing, and page breaks but it either ends up displaying each individual product on separate pages or takes an enormous amount of time to load the formatted page (which doesn't work for my user). I have also tried using a subreport but get the same results as what I was doing with the page breaks.
Any help or direction is greatly appreciated!
I found out that there is a problem when I have something like report package (multiple page report.) What I did with my situation is I spit to one page report. Say Region 1-7, I have 7 reports. And use Loop to run, save, or pint it all. You may end up with 7 rtf file to email.
Other option is using MailMerge. You can do all the report in MS Words instead of in Access report. So you create say, 7-page template for all regions and added MailMerge fields in it. Then run it.
hope this help.