nisiwi Posted November 18, 2020 Share Posted November 18, 2020 (edited) Hello Affinity Forum, I recently purchased Publisher (already have Photo & Designer) having read about the Beta release that includes Data Merge capabilities. I'm using Beta version 1.9.0.850. So, I decided to give it a try and designed a quick 4 page document with 3 sections (Front, Body, Rear) that had Master Pages applied to each section accordingly. When I connect to the Data Source, which only has a single record, and inserted the data fields everything looked fine. If I then begin the Merge process with the first (and only record in the data source) I can see a preview of the data merged which is currently limited to just the cover page (only page with fields) and looks as it should. However, if I then "Generate" the merged output I get a new document where the Master Pages are not applied correctly and none of the data is merged. It seems to immediately lose the connection with the original data source which is an Excel XLSM sheet and misapply the Master Pages. Is there a workaround or is this functionality currently broken as I'm attempting to complete a project with it. Happy to provide any source files. Here is everything setup and looking like it should: Here is the result of the Data Merge "Generate": Edited November 18, 2020 by nisiwi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Jon P Posted November 19, 2020 Staff Share Posted November 19, 2020 Hi @nisiwi Can you upload the document and xlsm file here? I'll take a look. Thanks! Serif Europe Ltd. - www.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisiwi Posted November 19, 2020 Author Share Posted November 19, 2020 Thanks @Jon P. I'll do that now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisiwi Posted November 19, 2020 Author Share Posted November 19, 2020 I've uploaded the files as requested and given my forum email address which is not the same as the software account email address @Jon P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Jon P Posted November 20, 2020 Staff Share Posted November 20, 2020 Thanks for the files, I've passed this on to development. There's an issue merging out some facing page documents that we are aware of, which I think covers a bit of what we see after the merge Serif Europe Ltd. - www.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisiwi Posted November 20, 2020 Author Share Posted November 20, 2020 Many thanks @Jon P. Do you have any visibility when or if a new Beta might be released that addresses these issues ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Jon P Posted November 20, 2020 Staff Share Posted November 20, 2020 I can't give any estimates on when a fix may be nor when it will be in a beta, but I'll nudge this thread with any updates Serif Europe Ltd. - www.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Mark Daniel Posted November 23, 2020 Staff Share Posted November 23, 2020 I'm looking into this, I can't say exactly when it will be fixed but there are a couple of work-arounds for now; either don't use facing pages or don't use master pages. Jon P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisiwi Posted December 1, 2020 Author Share Posted December 1, 2020 Thank you for responding Mark and for suggesting those workarounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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