Data sources created with the Relational Module can be used as sources of XML Data. The heirarchy modelled in the relational data source is rendered into XML, which can then be used in a regular EasyCatalog panel via the XML data provider.
- General
- What's New In 2025
- What's New In 2024
- What's New In 2023
- Sales FAQs
- EasyCatalog and EasyCatalog Lite End User License Agreement (EULA)
- EasyCatalog and EasyCatalog Lite Licensing FAQs
- EasyCatalog High-Level Overview
- Upgrading to InDesign 2024
- How Does Licensing Work with Creative Cloud Versions?
- EasyCatalog in Japanese
- How do a get an invoice?
- Is EasyCatalog available in Spanish/Español?
- I would like to upgrade my InDesign CS5.5 (or earlier) version of EasyCatalog to CC 2014 but I didn't find an upgrade path on your site
- I would like to upgrade my InDesign CS6 version of EasyCatalog to CC 2014 but I didn't find an upgrade path on your site
- Do you offer educational discount?
- Can I extend my trial?
- How much does support cost and how does it work?
- Is EasyCatalog available for InDesign Server?
- How do I stop the "About EasyCatalog" dialog box appearing when launching InDesign?
- Why have I been charged VAT for an online purchase?
- Sales FAQs
- Activation FAQs
- EasyCatalog Product Activation
- Removing EasyCatalog's License File
- I've just updated my Mavericks and am receiving a -2003 error when I try to activate
- Registering the InDesign Server version of EasyCatalog
- How do I stop the "About EasyCatalog" dialog box appearing when launching InDesign?
- Maximum number of allowable activations being met
- 0xe0a00001 error when trying to activate
- Activation FAQs
- Modules
- ODBC Data Provider
- ODBC Data Provider no longer connects after upgrading to macOS X Ventura 13.3
- Adding user defined parameters to an ODBC data source
- I've just upgraded to InDesign CC and my ODBC data source isn't working
- Is there any way to work with smaller sets of ODBC-based data?
- Exporting a CSV file from an ODBC Data Source in EasyCatalog
- ODBC Data Provider not loading on Macintosh
- ODBC Driver architecture mismatch
- Setting up a FileMaker datasource
- Setting up EasyCatalog to use an ODBC data source
- Which ODBC Driver should I get?
- ODBC Data Provider
- Pagination Module
- What's New In 2025
- Building Data Sheets Using Containers (2025)
- Containers (2025) - Overview
- Building Data Sheets Using Containers (2024)
- Containers (2024) - Overview
- Building Data Sheets Using Containers
- Containers - Fields With Multiple Values
- Containers - Tabular Fields
- Containers - Overview
- Edge Relationship Tool
- Showing the First and Last Entries on a Page Using Furniture
- Formatting Rule Regeneration Options
- Applying Table Cell Attributes
- What is a Matrix Table?
- Matrix Table Configuration Dialog
- Can I automatically rename an InDesign form field during pagination?
- Matrix Tables
- Reapplying Pagination Rules during Update Document
- A new page could not be inserted because the page being paginated into does not have a master applied
- A new page was inserted but it does not contain any intersecting guides
- A new page was inserted but the amount of overset text was not reduced
- An invalid numeric value was used in a Pagination Rules action: 'XXXX'
- An unknown group was specified in the 'Group Name' attribute for the library item 'XXXX'
- 'Grow and Flow' could not find a frame to continue paginating into in the library item 'XXXX'
- No intersecting page guides are defined on page X
- No positions available on page X
- Pages cannot be automatically inserted because you are not paginating into a master text frame
- Pagination cannot commence, as the pagination library could not be opened
- Pagination cannot occur on a master page
- Pagination could not start because there were no items available to paginate the selected records
- Setting up a document for Guide Based Pagination
- The EasyCatalog Pagination plug-in is not compatible with the current version of EasyCatalog
- The item is set to insert 'Frame Contents', but has no text boxes
- The library item 'XXXX' does not fit within the bounds of the page at the next guide intersection
- The "Group Name" has not been specified
- The paragraph style "XXXX" could not be found in the pagination document
- Unable to apply master page 'XXXX'
- Why is my pagination slow?
- Pagination Module
- Scripting Module
- Using the 'monitorFolder' method
- Scripting Support For Links
- Replacing Delimited Field Names With Field Content
- Custom Menus and Dialogs
- Accessing the InDesign Scripting DOM via Lua
- Creating a Calendar using LUA
- Custom Image Import
- Custom Relinking of Fields
- Using LUA commands to create an index/glossary
- Accessing Guide Based Pagination Progress on InDesign Server
- Advanced Conditional Processing Using Lua
- Get the name of the selected data source
- Setting pagination options via a script
- Referencing a field in a CALLSCRIPT script
- Using a post image import script to manipulate an image
- A quick way to retrieve a list of data sources
- Iterate down a book, checking documents for changes and updating the panel
- Iterate down one data source, filtering another panel based on the contents of a field
- Iterate through a data source, exporting one document per record
- Open data source and output contents of a named field
- Open data source, sync with data source, open document and paginate at guide positions
- Open document, update furniture and save under new name
- Search and Replace multiple fields
- Scripting Module
- XML Data Provider
- Importing XML Data that contains varying levels of grouping
- Using EasyCatalog to Create a Cross Table of XML Data
- Computed Fields and Complex Tables
- Do you have an example URL based XML data source?
- Adding a fake key to an XML data source
- Loading XML into a field
- Using a Relational Data Source in an XML Data Source
- How do I retrieve an XML file from a URL?
- Newly added XML fields are not showing in the panel
- XML Data Provider
- EasyCatalog
- Upgrading to InDesign 2025
- EasyCatalog 2025 Release Notes
- EasyCatalog 2024 Release Notes
- EasyCatalog FAQs
- IDMS Field Type
- What's New In 2025
- Building Data Sheets Using Containers (2025)
- Importing Data from a Google Docs Spreadsheet
- Enhanced Tabular Fields
- Using ImageLink to download and cache images
- What's New In 2024
- Building Data Sheets Using Containers (2024)
- Containers (2024) - Overview
- Tabular Fields and the JSON Content Type
- Using a barcode font to generate barcodes
- Hiding Code in Advanced Custom Fields
- EasyCatalog 18.0.0 Release Notes
- Excluding Fields Which are Never Required
- Replacing Fields
- Hyperlinks
- Common Activation Errors
- EasyCatalog 17.0.2 Release Notes
- EasyCatalog 17.0.1 Release Notes
- Automatic Language Translation
- EasyCatalog 17.0.0 Release Notes
- Calculating the number of days between two dates
- InDesign 2021 no longer starting without EasyCatalog errors
- Formatting Rules - Duplicating a Frame for Each Cell of a Tabular Field
- Combined Data Sources
- Table Filtering
- Hilighting the Document Selection
- Augmenting Datasources via "CreateContent.lua"
- Upgrading to InDesign 2024
- How Does Licensing Work with Creative Cloud Versions?
- Preprocessing Field Options
- Use Formatting Rules Post Processing to Paginate Images
- The Enhanced HTML Parser
- Applying Table Cell Attributes
- Versions Panel
- EasyCatalog Product Activation
- Custom Data Providers
- Custom Menus and Dialogs
- Accessing the InDesign Scripting DOM via Lua
- Batch Scripted Custom Fields
- EasyCatalog Demonstration Files
- Running a new version of InDesign?
- Custom Reports
- Custom Adoption
- Post Processing of Formatting Rules
- Advanced Preferences
- The "ENV" Custom Field Command
- Running the Windows Installer Silently
- Applying CMYK or RGB values to a frame
- Handling Nested HTML Tags in Formatted Fields
- Custom Image Import
- Specifying Defaults for the EasyCatalog Workspace Folder
- Generate InDesign Based QR Codes
- Automatically tagging existing documents using a Regular Expression
- Specifying Defaults For Data Providers
- Converting XML tags to EasyCatalog Tags
- Can I automatically rename an InDesign form field during pagination?
- Custom Relinking of Fields
- Date/Time Formatting Options
- Specifying a time-out value for URL-based operations
- Using LUA commands to create an index/glossary
- Working With Tabular Fields
- Accessing Guide Based Pagination Progress on InDesign Server
- EasyCatalog Server and Salsify
- Configuring Cross Platform Picture Paths
- Cross Referencing Fields From Another Data Source
- Moving EasyCatalog to a new machine
- Sending a Crash Report
- Number formatting using custom fields
- Changing URL-based image storage paths
- Advanced Computed Fields Commands
- Replacing a Unicode code point using cleansing
- Advanced Conditional Processing Using Lua
- Reapplying Pagination Rules during Update Document
- Panel drawing on the Mac is slow after upgrading to Yosemite
- Using EasyCatalog to Create a Cross Table of XML Data
- Fixing the links in a document created with the wrong key fields
- Hyperlinking to another page in the document
- Working with images in a hierarchical folder structure
- Computed Fields and Complex Tables
- Is there a way for EasyCatalog to display any price below a dollar ie: “.99” as “99₵”?
- Can EasyCatalog be used to produce graphs?
- How do I uninstall or remove EasyCatalog?
- Specifying faces for the < b > and < i > HTML tags
- Using tags to apply paragraph and character styles inside a field
- Customizing the EasyCatalog Panel Flyout Menu
- Referencing a field in a CALLSCRIPT script
- Using a post image import script to manipulate an image
- I only want to know which fields have content in a group
- Is it possible to rename a panel after it is created?
- How do I 'fix' a column in the EasyCatalog panel so it doesn't scroll from view?
- Making the decimal part of a price Superscript
- How do I tag an untagged table with content?
- How do I populate a table using only a records key value
- Is it possible to fill a table where the data fields are not in a row but in a column?
- Change the colour of text that's placed into a field specifier
- What are Formatting Rules and Rule Sets?
- What is a Custom Field?
- How do I stop the "About EasyCatalog" dialog box appearing when launching InDesign?
- How do I specify multiple file extensions for images?
- Why aren't my images being placed?
- Can EasyCatalog search in sub-folders for images?
- Does EasyCatalog support Unicode?
- Can EasyCatalog produce barcodes?
- I'm seeing a duplicate keys error, what does that mean?
- What is the maximum number of records and fields?
- Field Markers are not visible in the document
- Creating an index
- Detecting placed records outside of EasyCatalog
- An error occurred reading the field definition file
- Edit multiple field options
- Example XSL using a loop to populate a table
- Exporting custom fields from EasyCatalog to the data source
- How to send your workspace folder
- Populate a table with multiple rows per record
- Resetting your InDesign preferences
- Select items from an EasyCatalog panel prior to dragging from a library flagged as 'EasyCatalog Library'
- What are the differences between the lite and full versions
- Data cannot be loaded because blank field names were found
- Document edited without EasyCatalog loaded
- Fields no longer linked in the document
- Removing empty fields
- Table population is missing the first record
- Unable to write to the workspace folder
- What is 'Multiple Users Share This Workspace'?
- EasyCatalog FAQs
- Beta Features
- Using Formatting Rules With ExtendScript
- Custom Formatting Of Numeric Values
- Placing fields inside tabular fields
- Grouped Tabular Fields
- Formatting Rules Combined With Tabular Fields
- Formatting Rule Fields
- Inserting Images as Anchored Frames
- Formatting Rules - Duplicating a Frame for Each Cell of a Tabular Field
- Replacing Delimited Field Names With Field Content
- Generate InDesign Based QR Codes
- Beta Features
