Affinity Publisher Customer Beta - 1.9.0.796 - Data Merge crash

[Murfee]

Data merge was a very short lived test 😫

Mojave with the latest Numbers 10.1, file exported as .xlsx and crashes Publisher as soon as it is selected in the Data Merge Manager

[Jon P]

@Murfee Can you attach the xlsx file?

Thanks

[Seneca]

19 minutes ago, Murfee said:

Data merge was a very short lived test

I have just tested it and it works for me.

I had to reset Publisher to make it actually start on my computer.

Regards

[Murfee]

21 minutes ago, Jon P said:

@Murfee Can you attach the xlsx file?

Thanks

Hi John, I can't upload the original xslx that I tried...too confidential 😀

I have attached a very simple one, this doesn't crash Publisher but the first column with the Months doesn't pull through, it just shows 0000.

The original file I tried was full of formulas that might have got confused during the export to Excel... not the best file to test with 😀

Simple Testing 2 Data Merge for Publisher 1.9.xlsx

 

[Jon P]

I'll look into that month missing, but I'm keen to reproduce this crash (even if it has formulas or things we don't support, we should never just crash!)

If you use this link to upload the file it will remain confidential and only used internally for testing.

[Murfee]

3 minutes ago, Jon P said:

I'll look into that month missing, but I'm keen to reproduce this crash (even if it has formulas or things we don't support, we should never just crash!)

If you use this link to upload the file it will remain confidential and only used internally for testing.

Uploaded, thanks

[Murfee]

Is there a reason that the Mac version can not import Numbers or Pages documents? 

[fde101]

1 hour ago, Murfee said:

Is there a reason that the Mac version can not import Numbers or Pages documents? 

Yes, those are proprietary file formats which are not publicly documented and change from release to release so they would be a moving target of reverse-engineering that is not likely worth Serif's time to unravel.

[Murfee]

Thanks @fde101, I was just hoping life would be easier if I have formulas that don't export to Excel properly

[Jon P]

Thanks for the file, I've logged that crash, seems to be caused by the EDATE formula. If I remove those it's fine

[Jon P]

Quote

 have attached a very simple one, this doesn't crash Publisher but the first column with the Months doesn't pull through, it just shows 0000.

It's because we don't understand the date formatting used, you get similar behavior if you place it - I'll pass this on

[Murfee]

6 hours ago, Jon P said:

Thanks for the file, I've logged that crash, seems to be caused by the EDATE formula. If I remove those it's fine

Thanks Jon, I have been using CSV exported from Numbers and it is working well, I just need to remember to replace the original file when I update anything and all is good. The translation to Excel can be difficult sometimes due to the difference in functions, it should just replace a formula with values but it doesn't always.