EasyCatalog CS2 2.1.3 Now Available

The latest version of EasyCatalog CS2 2.1.3 for Adobe InDesign CS2 is now available from our download page.

Upgrading from EasyCatalog 2.0.3

The format of the EasyCatalog workspace folder has changed: workspaces created using 2.0.3 will be upgraded to the 2.1 format. As such, once your workspace folder has been converted to the new format it will not open in version 2.0.3. Due to the addition of additional attributes, documents created or edited using version 2.1 or later of EasyCatalog will not open on machines with EasyCatalog 2.0.3 is loaded. As with any software upgrade, backup your EasyCatalog Workspace folder and documents prior to installing the latest version.

EasyCatalog CS2 2.1.3 for InDesign CS2

• Localizations

  English	French	German

New Features:

EasyCatalog

• Added reporting:
  Three reports are now available from the data panel pop-out menu. Each report is generated as XML, and displayed using an XSLT transformation.
  • Data Source Report
    Shows all records in the selected data source
  • Panel Report
    Shows all records in the panel, including grouping information
  • Document Report
    Shows all records placed in the document.
  Reports are generated in a folder named 'EasyCatalog Reports' within your EasyCatalog workspace folder, and will be displayed automatically using your default web-browser.
  More reports are planned for future versions of EasyCatalog.
• A report showing changes made to the document is now available by holding the shift key whilst selecting Update Document->All
• Replaced the 'Save As...' menu option with a facility to manage the storage and recall of panel configurations

Pagination

• New Pagination Attribute: 'Ungroup'.
  Apply this new attribute to group boxes within the pagination library item. After pagination, the group boxes will be ungrouped.
• New Pagination Attribute: 'Release Anchored Items'.
  Apply this new attribute to text boxes to release all of the anchored items within it after pagination. As with InDesign's 'Release' functionality, any anchored boxes within the text box will no longer be anchored.
• Position-based pagination has now been modified to bring it in line with other types of pagination. In previous versions, there would be an implied grouping based on position (i.e. all records with the same positional information would be paginated as part of the same implied group). As from this version, if the panel is grouped the group settings defined in the pagination library and the data will be obeyed; if the panel is not grouped position-based pagination will behave as previous versions. It is recommended that panel grouping is now used to group records rather than relying on an implied group.
• 'Update Furniture' now processes image boxes
• Conditional Logic
  • Fixes bug where commands at the end of a story thread would not be processed
  • Added support for 'countunique' keyword. Counts number of unique field values in the group being processed - e.g. The following statement will count the number of unique values in the 'Price' field:
    @@if {countunique Price} = 1
    Result type is numeric, so ensure the value you are comparing with is not in quotes.
  • The parser is much less strict: previous versions would require white space to be present between the left-hand field/value, the operator and the right-hand field/value.
  • Better error reporting when field names and field content are unterminated

Scripting

• 'Replace Fields' is now available on the data source object. The first parameter is the document to process; the second parameter is the field to search for; the third parameter is the field to replace it with. Consult the Release Notes PDF for more details on how to use this method.

Bug Fixes:

EasyCatalog

• Fixes problem where duplicate column names could be imported. If column names were in upper case, duplicates would not previously have been allowed
• Fixed bug that would prevent 'Search for Content' from working correctly on Windows
• Fixed problem when merging table cells manually within InDesign: the first character of the merged cells would be deleted if one of EasyCatalog's table attribute characters was not present in the cell.
• Fixes bug where picture frames would not be processed during 'Update Book'
• German user-interface tidies - some translation fixes; buttons widened to accommodate some German text
• Table attributes applied to a start/end marker character are now ignored
• Fixed bug that caused images to always update if the filename and path specified didn't match case
• Fixes problem in File Data Provider that would prevent some files from loading. If a field started - but didn't end with - a quote character, the file would not previously load.
• Update Furniture
  • Fixes bug where fields in tables would sometimes be reported as being the last on a page, even though other fields may be later in the text flow
  • Graphic frames are now taken into account when determining the first/last item on a page/spread
  • Fixes bug where update of furniture would stop if a graphic frame was tagged as 'Furniture'
  • Fixed a bug where furniture items on master pages containing delete actions would cause the update to stop
• Conditional Logic
  • Fixes bug where commands at the end of a story thread would not be processed

Pagination

• Guide-based pagination 'Asset' popup now defaults to 'Unspecified' instead of 'First in Library'. This allows actions to determine which library item to use, whereas previous versions would require a field to be specified that determined the name of the library item that would be used
• Fixes problem where pagination would stop if fitting attribute applied to a group box.

Scripting

• Fixes a crashing issue when using InDesign's scripting dictionary to add additional columns to a table in the document.