Using layers on multiple pages in Indesign

I would have thought conditional text would solve this.

https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/indesign/using/editing-text.html#:~:text=Conditional%20text%20is%20a%20way,by%20showing%20and%20hiding%20conditions.

Where the entire layer will turn off - the layers in the drop down are page relevant

Map Layer Turned off

Drop down layers turned off

You will see that the Layer named Map Label 2 is different than that of Page 1.

Renaming the 'sublayers'

And you don't have to rename layers

It works with the standard name - I was just doing it to see visually the differences

So where the layer visibility affects all pages.

If you turn off the 'sub layers' via the drop down arrow in the Layers Panel - you can turn off individual elements per page within that layer.

I know this seems counter-intuitive — that's a fancy way to say it doesn't make a lick of sense — but sometimes the easiest way to get things off a layer is to create yet another layer.

Let's simplify the example and put your two maps on a single reader's spread, pages 2 and 3. This will work the same if the two map pages are widely separated; it makes things a little easier to explain and much easier to see if you want to practice this before you do it to your book. The important things to remember is that Layers are global across your document, but elements placed in the document are Page specific.

1. If you can see both pages 2 and 3 in your document, you're using the Facing Pages view. Go to the File>Document Setup... menu command and turn off the Facing Pages check box, then click the OK button. This way, we're set to only affect a page at a time.
2. Go to page 2. Turn off all layers except the label layer. Get your Arrow/Selection Tool. Press Cmd/Ctrl+A, depending on whether you are using a Mac or a Windows system, respectively, to select everything on the label layer on page 2. Or if you prefer using your pull down menus, choose Edit>Select All.
3. Press Cmd/Ctrl+X to cut all the information off from the label layer on page 2 and place it in your computer's clipboard. This works the same way if you choose the Edit>Cut menu command.
4. Now go to your Layers panel, and create a new layer you can name Page 2 labels. Make sure that this new layer is selected in the panel.
5. On your Mac, use the keyboard shortcut Cmd+Opt+Shift+V. If you're using a Windows system, your keyboard shortcut would be Ctrl+Alt+Shift+V. If you want to use the pull down menus, the command Edit>Paste in Place. This action will place all those elements you had on the label layer and will place them in exactly the same position on the new Page 2 labels layer.

Now you can turn on and off the label elements on Page 2 labels layer without affecting anything else left on the labels layer.

Hope this helps,

Randy

No--layers are global in InDesign and Illustrator. 

Hello @Emile Nowak,

Re: If I want the page 1 map to contain no labels, but the page 2 map to have 10 labels, if I switch off the 'label layer,'it applies the layer change to both pages, however I only want the change to apply to page 2 of the Indesign document only.

indesign layers are global to the document not to any specific page. Just leave the Label layer on, if Page1 has unwanted labels you'll need to delete them.

Regards,

Mike