When an image URL ends with a trailing slash after a real path component, the URL cache should use the final path component as the filename.

For example:

should be stored as a file named:

not as a folder named 1234 with no filename.

Boxes hidden using the Layers panel can cause guide-based pagination to believe there's a box in the centre of the page.

Crash in CREATERANGES custom field function when some of the values contain strings, some contain numbers. There is also a potential issue when there are values in the 'values' parameter that are not the 'possible values' parameter.

Dependencies are incorrectly flagged — which can result in erroneous circular dependencies — if the XREFFIELD custom field command references an external data source. This will be the case when the external data source contains fields of the same name as those in the custom field's data source.

Using the v2 parser, sometimes it will report that a field can not be found. This only seems to affect custom fields used in certain locations, such as the "Location" text edit box.

When "Multiple Users Share This Workspace" is on, some data sources fail to open after they are created.

Adopts fields in the current document selection.

If the document is checked for errors automatically – for example, after "Update Document" – the image links will not be forced to refresh their statuses. Instead, their current state in the Links panel will be used.

When using the Sync With Document button from the panel, the links will be updated.

EasyCatalog running on InDesign Server will now check both the EasyCatalog workspace folder and the InDesign Server application folder for the "EasyCatalog Log.txt" file.

If a server configuration is being used, EasyCatalog will append the server configuration name to the log file. The location of the log file will be reported to the Info log (if it can be created successfully), or to the error log (if it cannot).

This will ensure that the server is registered each time it is launched.

This would prevent the user from using some of the fitting options from the View menu after dragging a Formatting Rule.

When the user right-clicks on an "URL" image field inside of an advanced tabular field, the "Download Selected Images" option is not available.

If a field inside of an advanced tabular field is set to be a "URL" image type, it will not be downloaded before pagination commences

When "Map <br> to return" and "Allow All Whitespace" was enabled, the use of <p> tags would introduce undesired extra returns in the field content.

This error will appear if the user has multiple, chained, text boxes on the master page and one of the boxes in the chain has been overridden and deleted in the main document.

When updating a Formatting Rule with modified Pagination Rules, the option "Do you want to update the Formatting Rule with the modified Pagination Rules" is presented.

When editing a Rule that was the same name as a Rule Set, the Rule would be deleted on edit

If the output path contains *only* a custom field — e.g.

The path separator character will be used on the Mac, resulting in a filename containing the last folder name in the path.

Added scheduleScript method to easycatalogObject to schedule the execution of a script.

The first parameter uses the cron expression format, and allows for scripts to be executed periodically (for example, every 30 minutes) or at a specific time of day or even only on specific days of the week.

Further information on this format can be found here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

Script execution errors are logged to a file, in the same folder as the script. In the example above, errors will be logged to a file called "cron job.log"

This method is primarily designed for use on InDesign Server. By using this in the desktop version of InDesign you may be in breach of your license agreement.

When executing an InDesign script wrapped in a Begin/EndSession, EasyCatalog is unable to verify its activation status.

URLSTR and GROUPCOUNT are defined as requiring 0 or more parameters, but EasyCatalog will crash if no parameters are provided.

The "Save As.." button will not be enabled if the user has edited a subset applied to an object, such as a frame or table.

Fixes potential crash when paginating Formatting Rules.

User receives a 'no authorization code' error when authenticating with Google to access their spreadsheets.

This can result in the user being able to enter text or a custom field command, which overwrites the contents of the field.

Any boxes set to resize using InDesign's auto fitting attribute are not being resized before determining whether they collide with anything that's already on the page. This can lead to collisions being visible on the page after pagination that weren't there during pagination.

This affects top > down (either left > right or right > left) pagination

example: code, body = HTTP.patch(url, "Example data")

Hold down the Alt key when selecting the File > New > EasyCatalog Panel menu to use the opposite sorting method: i.e. if you have "Alphabetically" selected, the items will be shown in order of last-opened date; if you have "Last Opened" selected they will be shown alphabetically.

Sync with Document should now be faster for users who store lots of images on a file server as EasyCatalog now should only refresh the link status the first time the image is encountered. This will primarily benefit users who have the same image placed multiple times.

Some URIs being passed to ImageLink are not correctly URI-encoded (for example, they contain accented characters from non-English locales). Most browsers compensate for this by automatically encoding them. ImageLink will now attempt to follow the same rules which should result in more URIs being resolved.

This modification requires ImageLink x.0.25

Data Source packages are now stored as a zip file, rather than a folder structure. To import a package in the old format, use the File > New > EasyCatalog Panel > Import Data Source menu option and select the "Manifest.xml" file at the top level.

This is an issue when using custom field commands outside of custom fields – e.g. when using a custom field command to calculate the output path in Template Document pagination.

– Dependencies are not calculated for fields copied using the "Duplicate Field" menu option, resulting in them not updating correctly.

– The FIELDSTR() command is not adding to the dependency list, resulting in the field using them not updating correctly.

The GS character — Unicode value 29 — is being stripped as part of the check for illegal control characters. This character is required when producing barcodes/data matrixes.

Example:

ds = DATASOURCE.get();

rs = ds:getrecordset();

return #rs

This is a performance improvement for when EasyCatalog attempts to determine whether custom field functions are used within one of the field options — e.g. in the prefix, suffix, etc.

The preference to determine which version of the custom field parser to use is now cached, so if this setting is changed the user will need to restart InDesign. This change can have a significant impact on performance.

We have identified a potential crashing issue in new code on the Mac that is used to list the files contained within a folder. As far as we are aware, the plug-in wasn't crashing but this fix should make it more robust.

Now contains the complete set of over 2000 entries.

This replaces the links belonging to one record with another and updates them.

Generating Document, Panel and Data Source reports should now be quicker especially when generating large reports. In previous versions, the XML > HTML transformation via XSLT was slow.

Field options can be copied to the clipboard and pasted onto other fields. You can also externally edit the field options in a text editor and then paste them back in.

On Mac, Command+Double Click on a field to insert a Field Specifier; on Windows Ctrl+Double Click.

In the Advanced Preferences dialog the user can now specify defaults for:

– Update Formatting Rules

– Always download latest images

– Deleted unused images on Synchronize

– Prevent Images being downloaded

– Update Containers

– Tick/Cross Icons to represent boolean preferences rather than 'true' and 'false'

– Right-aligned labels; centred category headers

– Modified some of the preference names to be more meaningful

– Hid preferences that are no longer used

– Preview of colour for preferences that specify a colour in the format #RRGGBB

Synchronising the data with the document was slow. This change improved it by 30%

Manifest file now includes additional data, such as

– Details of other data sources that are also open, including the number of panels open for them

– Approximate memory usage for the data source being packaged and any other data sources

– Total physical memory available on the machine

– Used physical memory

This is an internal change that should yield some performance improvements.

This will be off on existing data sources, but enabled for new ones. It controls the processing of the <span> 'style' CSS attribute.

For example:

Also supported are:

"font-family"

"font-variant"

"font-size"

"font-style" – A character stylesheet name

"color" – Color name, CMYK or RGB value

<font size= now supports strings with a given unit of measure

The 'style' attribute now applies a paragraph style to the entire range of the tag

<font size= now supports strings with a given unit of measure

The 'style tag' now applies a paragraph style to the entire range of the tag.

This is treated as the tabular field content.

Typing 'log' previously would return all options for "EasyCatalog", which isn't useful behaviour.

We are removing support for URL(Live), since it relied on InDesign's URL import mechanism which could be unreliable when connecting to some servers. Existing data sources that use URL(Live) fields will continue to work, but the option will be unavailable for new data sources or fields that are not currently configured to use URL(Live).

Users should now investigate using ImageLink via the URL(ImageLink) option as it offer much more robust linking and status updating.

These allow specification of an object export value and a script that is run on frames tagged with the field.

If an image fails to download, or a preview is not available for the image, a 'broken link' icon will be displayed as the image preview in the panel.

EasyCatalog will apply a table style named in the "class" attribute on the table node.

The PostImageImport.jsx can now access a new scriptArgs property – "alphaChannels" that contains the number of alpha channels available in the image that was imported – e.g.

The ‘Common’ column on the versions panel is now resizable.

For example, in the Picture Location field you can now use:

Added support for ‘Update Document’ and ‘Update Selection’ keyboard shortcuts in EasyCatalog Lite.

Added new advanced option preference 'Enable Configuration Field Options' to enable the 'Field Options' check box on export Configuration.

In edge cases, empty rows would not be recognised.

Packages produced from a Combined Data Source that uses linked data sources stored in a sub-folder of the workspace folder will not import via File > New > EasyCatalog Panel > Import Data Source..

If the user attempts to change field options using the "Options" button on the Data Source Configuration dialog, InDesign will crash.

Instead of a string value from the JSON, 'true' or 'false' would sometimes be output.

If an image contains multiple paths, the first path will be used as the clipping path even though it may not be clipping path. This resulted in the first path being applied as the clipping path to the image, but the clipping path name being shown in the Object > Clipping Path > Options dialog.

This was a legacy option that has now been superseded by the new barcode code.

This will occur when the user right-clicks in an area of the panel that contains no records.

EasyCatalog should compare the contents of the groups to ensure they match when determining whether to merge the cells

– Previews for ImageLink-type images not shown in the Record Viewer Panel

– Images previews are sometimes updated with the preview for a different image

This will affect months that contain accented characters.

This requires build 31356 of ImageLink

Only one parameter is passed to the script in this case, which is the formatting rule frame.

Advanced preferences are not available in EasyCatalog Lite, so "Allow Empty Key Fields" should default to 'true' to enable users who are using an empty key field to load their data.

Legacy Pagination Rules removed by default.

Added a new Advanced preference to show them 'Show Legacy Pagination Rules'

Re-ordered Pagination to have a more logical grouping

A new Pagination Option "Paginate When Anchored" will Duplicate and populate a item based on its Pagination Rule settings, similar to other forms of pagination.

Added a new pagination option – Text Separator.

When an inline frame is paginated, this will be used to separate each item. It can be any text and can include meta character sequences.

When set to 'incremental', data will be added to the container until it goes overset; when set to 'decremental' all data will be added to the container and removed until it is no longer overset. Depending on how the container is configured, this may lead to performance improvements.

When a Pagination Rule "Once Per.." is set and the Group Name is the name of a tabular field, anchored items are repeated once for all records in the tabular field or once per record in the tabular field.

These are invisible to the user and should not be allowed

This error occurs when a field is so big that it spans multiple pages and there are no field markers at all on the page

When undo support is turned off, pagination performance improves by breaking the process into small, time-based segments. An advanced field option, **Flow Pagination Commit Period**, lets you control the duration of these segments. The default is 15 seconds

The Direction pop-up now shows clearer pagination directions (for example, Right, Down or Left, Up). The old Across, Down (Aligned) option has been replaced with a simpler Aligned checkbox, found in the Collision Detection section. This checkbox is only available when Collision Detection is turned on and the pagination direction goes sideways first.

If the user has specified as page number field that contains the name of a page to paginate onto, they will receive a 'can't convert to number' error instead of a 'page cannot be found' error.

The error is bogus, as pagination will not be paginating onto a master page due to the Page # field being specified.

If a LUA-based Enterprise Data Provider reports the same name as a built-in Enterprise Data Provider, the LUA provider will be given precedence on the menu and the built-in provider will be hidden.

Modification to Enterprise Data Providers so that 'config' is now a global – its properties can now be set/get from any callback function in the lua code

e.g.

e.g.

The exchangeKeys method is on the datasource object, but is affecting fields in the document from other data sources.

The setOption method can be used to set user data source parameters, but this is not functioning when using a LUA-based data provider.

This pagination type does not use libraries, so should not check that the specified library exists.

This will occur when the panel/DSV is grouped and subgrouped, and a parent and child group are selected.

Fields names are not case sensitive.

This results in the OK button being permanently disabled. The warning about changing key fields should only appear when editing an existing data source, not creating a new one.

When viewing a combined data source, the number of columns shown in the panel can sometimes change if the panel is grouped and different groups are opened and closed.

Currently, the default Custom Field parser is the version from previous versions of EasyCatalog. To enable the newer parser, go to Preferences > EasyCatalog > Advanced… and change the "Custom Field Parser" version to be "v2".

Added GROUPMODALVALUE to find the value that appears in a given field the most number of times

The parameters are:

1. The group path

2. Field(s) to sort the records in the group by

3. The field to return the modal value from

The sort field is used in the event of multiple values appearing the same number of times (the first value encountered will be used).

Some commands, such as XREFFIELD and XREFFIELDLIST are not specifying the fields they're dependent on. This can cause their values to not be recalculated when their dependent fields are changed. This will affect commands that reference specific cells within a tabular field, rather than the tabular field itself.