Affinity Pub - data merge in sections.

[Bookie]

I'm trying to see if this is possible:

1. Section one - four unique pages
2. Section two - lined pages with a different image on each page - ideally data merge to create about 30 pages
3. Section three - back to unique pages

I've created a test document with relevant sections and set up the merge (merge layout, connected to data source, inserted merge fields). When I merge the data, I get the entire document created for as many records as are in the data file. 

So - section one, section two with a single page, section 3; section one, section two with a single page and the next image, section 3, etc.

Is there a way to have the merge work only in a single section? I've search all over and dug through menus but can't see it. it might not exist.

I realise I can work around this by creating section one as a separate doc, do the merge, then import those pages into the main doc. But then I might as well just duplicate the pages manually inside the main doc and insert the images manually - simpler to work with one doc than a master, a merged doc and the main doc.

Has anyone tried anything like this successfully?

[David in Яuislip]

Been there, done that, gave up.

The image below was my note to self at the time and may help. You need to adjust the page settings to stop the repeats of the earlier pages-your section one. Haven't tried with following pages-your section three as my conclusion was it's best to use Data Merge to create relevant pages, save as .afpub then “Add Pages from File” into main document

30 is kinda marginal, if it were 300 I'd definitely use data merge

[Bookie]

Thanks David, somehow I didn't see that. I went manual, will see if I am willing to keep doing it that way I really don't want to be working with multiple documents - but might be worth the time save.

 

[Dai777]

@antoWhat is the screen recorder you are using?