Caleela Posted October 2 Share Posted October 2 I am wanting to data merge anchor IDs from a master page - and having no luck assigning anchors to a master page. On both Windosw 11 & Mac OSX v2 publisher. I cannot find any information on either the forums or in help. Cheers, Caleela. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 2 Share Posted October 2 9 hours ago, Caleela said: I am wanting to data merge anchor IDs from a master page Sorry, but I don't know what that sentence means. If you were to put an anchor on a Master Page, then it would have the same value on each page the Master is applied to. So what would the Data Merge function accomplish? Are you saying that you want to put a Data Merge Field on a Master Page, which would become an Anchor populated from a Data Merge Source file? If so, I would start by doing it on a regular document page, to make sure you have the basic Data Merge process working properly. Then I might consider trying to put the info onto a Master Page, but I've never found it necessary to use Master Pages in Data Merge processing at all, so I would probably just leave it on a regular document page and run Data Merge from there. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleela Posted October 2 Author Share Posted October 2 I have data merge working very well from Master pages - I am making a yealy planner. The question was about creating an anchor on a master page - is it possible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 3 Share Posted October 3 10 hours ago, Caleela said: The question was about creating an anchor on a master page - is it possible? It should be possible, but how does this relate to Data Merge? You didn't answer the question I asked you about what the anchor will point to. Do you want it to populate from the Data Merge Source? Or is it static? Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caleela Posted October 4 Author Share Posted October 4 @walt.farrell The anchor is for a month summary page so all days can point back to it (by adding hyperlinks) The intention is to use data merge to update the month anchor(s) for 12 months (one month master page with the <field> anchor included). I still cannot create an anchor on a master page which is the issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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