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Octanyum
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March 15, 2023
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Handling catalogue items

  • March 15, 2023
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hello,

 

this is quite tough to formulate...

 

so: i have a catalogue with, let's say, 100 products with photos and descriptions, spread over a number of pages. i've worked one week to put everything in place and all looks perfect, ready to print. but the client decided to delete the product number 34 from page x, insert a new product between the 55th and the 56th products and swap the order of some other products on other pages!

 

well, how can i do this easily, avoiding to manually move the products around? (by manually i mean delete the product 34, put the info of product 35 in the place of where the info of 34th was, and continuing like this with all the other products until the end of the catalogue)

 

is there a way to handle items (products) like we handle pages? when we delete, insert, or move pages around, the information they contain keeps moving with the pages it are attached to.

 

sorry for not finding a simpler way to describe the problem. hope indesign has a solution for that.

 

thanks,

octanyum

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Correct answer Peter Spier

I would say that the way you've started out there's not much you can do but the hard way. I think if you were to put each product into a set of linked text frames as an anchored object you could then cut and paste them just like text and have the rest reflow.

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Peter Spier
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Peter SpierCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
Community Expert
March 15, 2023

I would say that the way you've started out there's not much you can do but the hard way. I think if you were to put each product into a set of linked text frames as an anchored object you could then cut and paste them just like text and have the rest reflow.

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OctanyumAuthor
Inspiring
March 15, 2023

thank you so much for answering!!

yes, i can try reflowing! but how about the photos and logos? i attach a snapshot: the client wants me to delete the first product from the second page, so i have to move up the below two products, with all their elements (text, logo and picture) — gears and lines belong to the master pages... and the first product on the next page should become the last one on the second page from my snapshot... i'm really intruiged there's no other way to manipulate items in catalogue. usually, i don't design catalogues (books, magazines etc.) but this feature i'm looking for should be pretty standard when designing catalogues, isn't it? 

John Mensinger
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John MensingerCommunity Expert
Community Expert
March 15, 2023

As Peter alluded, it's possible to build a document in which everything (text, graphics, etc.), is anchored in frame-threaded flow, and it would behave as you describe in your original post, but you have to set it up with that intent from the beginning. To get that in this case, you'd have to rebuild the whole thing. I'm afraid it's either that or just settle for reshuffling the product content manually.

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