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Are you in fields Panel...?

If so click on the Label to left of field you are trying to insert...It's acts as a button.

 

 

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The fields studio doesn't seem to respond to any clicks. Expanding/collapsing the categories works, but click/double-click/drag/right-click on field labels or values does nothing.

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1 hour ago, hawk said:

The fields studio doesn't seem to respond to any clicks. Expanding/collapsing the categories works, but click/double-click/drag/right-click on field labels or values does nothing.

To use one of the fields in your document:

  1. Create a Text Frame.
  2. Make sure the text cursor is within the frame.
  3. Double-click on the label (name) of one of the fields in the Fields panel. Its value will be inserted at the text cursor.

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2 hours ago, hawk said:

The fields studio doesn't seem to respond to any clicks

A lot of the Fields will be blank until you have something to actually populate them,  example; I can insert the Section name in a text frame and there is nothing there until I actually give the section a name. Tip, open up the history Studio and watch what happens when you double click one of the fields to insert it, another tip is go to Text > Highlight Fields and check it.

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I know, I'm trying to insert e.g. page number which is not blank. Nothing happens, history doesn't change, highlight fields doesn't show anything.

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29 minutes ago, hawk said:

I'm trying to insert e.g. page number which is not blank. Nothing happens,

Click on the words <Page Number> and not the words Page Number: 

 

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Make a text frame, type "Page " leave the text caret blinking and double click in the Fields Studio on the <Page Number>.

 

If that doesn't work Text > Insert > Fields > Page Number

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12 hours ago, Old Bruce said:

A lot of the Fields will be blank until you have something to actually populate them,

This is quite bad. This has bothered me for a while. We don't have any visible feedback that something has changed, unless the field has been populated earlier.

I think a better alternative would be to have some sort of <field name> inserted into a text frame and then replaced with real text when the field has been populated. This is how it works in inDesign. 

Obviously, this lack of visible feedback freaks a lot of people out.

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I'm trying to insert fields exactly like @Old Bruce with trackpad and mouse but it doesn't work. Text --> Insert --> Field --> Page Number does work, but I cannot insert total page count or any other fields from the fields studio this way.

When I click in the fields studio the text cursor stops blinking.

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7 minutes ago, hawk said:

When I click in the fields studio the text cursor stops blinking.

Same here, that is disconcerting, odd that I had not noticed it before.

Some information about your system and the version of the software and what Operating System you have might help us further solve this.

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It has to be the OS, your machine has better to much better hardware than mine and the only difference which I can think of is that you are running an older OS than I am. I just checked the Affinity site and there it says that Mavericks support will be added soon, but I don't know when that was written and how far along it is. So I am guessing that may be the problem for you. I am surprised it loaded at all if your OS isn't supported, the web page must be outdated.

I just had a thought, page numbers are Document specific a lot of the others are from the Operating System. So Page number, count and Section name and pages in should work can you try those?

 

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Affinity Designer 2.4.0 | Affinity Photo 2.4.0 | Affinity Publisher 2.4.0 | Beta versions as they appear.

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