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  • 4 months later...
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Came here to post this.

Custom fields, also known as text variables on other softwares, would be a massive help in template documents.

Currently I have a template (actually just a regular document I copy elsewhere whenever needed since Affinity Publisher does not have a true template function) for my design proposals, and I have to Find & Replace things like client name or project name so it changes across the whole document. If I could define, insert and later edit a field such as client name, I wouldn't have to Find & Replace all the time.

Thanks!

  • 2 months later...
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+1

I'd most likely use custom fields for running headers and footers (e.g. last occurence of "header_1" text style, chapter name) and for custom text variables (e.g. issue number in a magazine)

  • 1 month later...
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We would love it if Publisher could import data from a file and load it into fields throughout a template document. I know Photo does fields, and Publisher appears to do some pre-defined fields. If we could define custom fields and then populate them with data imported from a file … tab-delimited, csv, json, xml, whatever … that would clear our way to migrating to Publisher completely.

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19 hours ago, jmbwell said:

We would love it if Publisher could import data from a file and load it into fields throughout a template document. I know Photo does fields, and Publisher appears to do some pre-defined fields. If we could define custom fields and then populate them with data imported from a file … tab-delimited, csv, json, xml, whatever … that would clear our way to migrating to Publisher completely.

 

This is a different feature request, and there are already a number of threads in which it is being discussed; in particular this one, which is pinned to the top of the forum containing this thread:

 

  • 2 months later...
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I came to make a request for this. It's absolutely needed and extremely useful!! I have several documents that grow over time as new information gets added. 

For example one is a list of Wine Awards—when a new award comes in, I make a new page in the appropriate section and let the following pages shuffle down. Having the ability to define Custom Fields would allow me to set up inputs for repeating subheads (for a subgroup of awards all coming from the same competition for example).

Hoping this makes it into APub 1.8

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  • 4 months later...
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Im going to +1 this! This is a must have for me, Text variables was probably one of my favorite tools in InDesign for integrating timestamps into a graphic on a template, but if I cant change the formatting of the time, date, paths, names, etc in order to fite the overall design of the spread, it kind of makes the Fields panel useless to me. Im not going to use it if I cant control how it looks

  • 5 months later...
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On 2/27/2020 at 2:10 PM, MickRose said:

It's not ideal, but you can use the Fields/Document Information panel as customised field variables.

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I would love to but what variable should I enter in the master page to use the Subject?
I tried:

<Subject>
<Item 4>
<4>

But it does not get changed :(

Thank you!

 

P.S. just found out; you need do double click on the field label (Subject in my case) and the content will appear where the cursor is on your page: great!
 

Edited by ugrandolini
found the solution to my own question

Ugo

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On 2/27/2020 at 5:15 PM, fde101 said:

The catch is that then you wind up exporting a PDF which claims its author is "Item 1"...

I can confirm that in 1.8.6 this is fixed and the PDF shows the field content.

Thank you Affinity! :)

Ugo

MacMini with M1 chip, macOS BigSur (latest version), Affinity Publisher (latest version)

Using Affinity Publisher to create photography books – or better "zines" – that I offer on Amazon, check my collection at:
https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B097YBY6MW

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+1

On 8/21/2021 at 9:44 AM, Ing Sasi said:

+1 Today I found out that I cannot use the field to add spread number, only page number. Custom fields that work with equation would be really great.

 

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1 hour ago, Serif Since v1 said:

is it coming?

Only Serif would know, and they usually do not answer questions like that.

-- Walt
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