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[Implemented] Data merge
in Feedback for Affinity Publisher V1 on Desktop
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I'm just starting out with Publisher, and I was very interested in the Data Merge feature. For the most part it works well, but I think there's room for improvement with numbered/bulleted multi-line text.
I tried to make it work 3 ways, with mixed results:
Here, field 1 is recognized, field 2 isn't, so it doesn't work for me.
Here, both fields get recognized. This option is the closest I got to what I need, but I think it would be cumbersome to have to replace all line breaks with the \n character. Still, numbering/bullets don't work as expected (meaning, the numbers/bullets don't appear on each new line/item, only on the first line) because the "list" is one field. Of course, I could add the numbers/bullets myself, but I can't do any formatting.
I think it would be fantastic if #1 worked. That is, that arrays of strings are recognized as one field with multiple items so that I can apply bullets/numbering and customize it on the master page, rather than at the data source.