Affinity Publisher: Is there a way to automate consecutive numbering for each text-field (Calendar)?

[Maxim_Maxim]

Hello everyone

I am new to Affinity Publisher and try to figure out how I would able to automate consecutive numbering each text-field?
I am trying to do a calendar and just don't want to waste my time on doing this manually.

Or is there another way to achieve that?

 

[Komatös]

Hi @Maxim_Maxim

Unfortunately no, you have to set it manualy.

Maybe this website helps a little bit:

https://svg-tools.mensch-mesch.com/calendar/#jump2v

[Hilltop]

2 hours ago, anto said:

You can do it automatically. Create style for table body.

 

 

I'm missing something and can't get it to work. Could you give some more directions?

[bsx]

2 hours ago, anto said:

You can do it automatically. Create style for table body.

Thank you for the video. This is a simple way. It worked for me.

The other option via data merge is too complex for my small calendar.

[bsx]

39 minutes ago, Hilltop said:

I'm missing something and can't get it to work. Could you give some more directions?

Make a table with the Table tool. Then open the text styles. You will find a style called table body. You have to customize it.

[Hilltop]

Great, thank you! Once you know it's easy. 🙂

[Hilltop]

This is the first time that I worked with the Table tool and I must say it's not an easy one to master. So, thanks again guys for helping me out here. I created a template for the months and saved it as an asset. Now I can drag & drop a fresh copy for each month and customize it as Anto showed in the video. 

[Maxim_Maxim]

On 11/19/2022 at 10:18 AM, anto said:

Yeah. Thank you very much.
With the tables-approach it is much much easier!
Thanks a lot.

 

 

 

On 11/19/2022 at 10:18 AM, anto said:

 

 

Look at these topics

 

 

 

 

[huedrant]

Great! Thanks for sharing all these ideas, I was tinkering around myself with various approaches. 

Especially I was wondering whether I could use some calendar source with holidays included and use the data merge feature, but had no success so far. Any idea how this could work and how the data source should look like?