Mail Merge/VDP in Designer 2?

[Stephen Frye]

Is there mail-merge/VDP functionality in Designer 2? Perhaps as an add-on?

Thanks, Steve

[bbrother]

Hi @Stephen Frye, welcome in the forum 🙂

7 hours ago, Stephen Frye said:

Is there mail-merge/VDP functionality in Designer 2? Perhaps as an add-on?

No, Designer 2 does not have such a function, either built-in or as an add-on. If you would like such a function to be available in ADe, you can submit a request in the Feedback and Suggestions section, but before you do that, check if there is already such a request so as not to duplicate them.

Also for your knowledge, Data merge is available in Affinity Publisher. If you have a universal license (all 3 apps), you can open the .afdesign file in APub and use data merge.

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💡 Tip: The Affinity file extensions (.afphoto, .afdesign, afpub) are very interchangeable. This is possible because all three applications share a lot of their code and functionality. Any of these three file extensions can be opened in any affinity application.

[Stephen Frye]

Actually, it does; I did some more exploring and found this YouTube video:

This will be sufficient for my needs right now. It has limited rules-based VDP (the conditions & rules need to be built in the data-source file), but it should be powerful enough with a sufficiently-detailed data-source file.

Cheers, Steve

[walt.farrell]

7 hours ago, Stephen Frye said:

Actually, it does;

That is for Publisher (as @bbrother mentioned). You asked about Designer.