Show and hide layers across pages

[AEN MALI]

Hello, 

I would like to be able to show/hide multiple elements across pages.

Example: 
Page 3, 7 & 9 contain product pricing. Now I would like to be able to group these for example so that I can show or hide them with a "click".

Is this possible somehow?

Thanks!

[walt.farrell]

Do you want to hide those pages, or the pricing info?

If it's just the pricing info: if you apply those text frames using a separate Master Page, you can edit that Master Page and Hide the layer there, which will Hide it on any page that used that Master. And now that you can apply multiple Master Pages to document pages.

[Hangman]

9 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

If it's just the pricing info: if you apply those text frames using a separate Master Page, you can edit that Master Page and Hide the layer there, which will Hide it on any page that used that Master.

But how would you hide just the pricing information if the prices are inline?

[AEN MALI]

@walt.farrell Thank you!

 

Yes, it works with the master pages, but then it is not possible to move the price. 
(Except uniformly everywhere....) I can edit the text field from the content but not individual from the position. 

I would have to make then however many master pages for it which I could not hide and unhide again at the same time.

 

I had the idea to create a lot of text fields on the master page and then only hide the unused text field positions on the assigned pages, but that didn't work either. 🤔

Edited August 4, 2023 by AEN MALI

[Hangman]

Hi @AEN MALI,

Are you able to upload a screengrab of a typical page so we can get a better idea of what you want to achieve...

[walt.farrell]

11 minutes ago, AEN MALI said:

but then it is not possible to move the price. 
(Except uniformly everywhere....) I can edit the text field from the content but not individual from the position. 

You can do that, on individual pages, using Edit Detached for the Master Page layer in the Layers panel.

[AEN MALI]

Hello Handman,

if you could just see everything in a layers pane, it would be easy to group and hide. But across the pages it does not work.

Example file attached. Search possibility to hide all prices at once without hiding the pages.

Prices.afpub

[AEN MALI]

@walt.farrell

This is the solution!!!!! Thank you very much! I send an imaginary bouquet of flowers!  🌻

[thomaso]

Another workaround: Apply a certain text style (Text Style panel) to the price info you want to become invisible. Depending on your layout as paragraph or as character style. To toggle its visibility, you can set its font colour to None or to 0 opacity. It will be selectable but display its special characters only.

But note, this invisible text will still exist in an exported PDF and can get selected and extracted.