Apply color other than black to QR Code from datamerge

[budatlitho]

Hello!

I have a ticket that has a QR code on it that the customer wants in their color (blue). When using datamerge, the QR codes are colored black. The DB has 25,000 records. Anyone have a Javascript to accomplish this? 

Thanks in advance!

Bud

[Peter Villevoye]

So I checked if this flaw is still present in the brave new version of Adobe InDesign 2026, but too bad... it isn't. And the QR dialogue still initiates with the least used Text setting (in stead of the commonly used URL). So it has been left untouched – again. 

I tried all kinds of hacks, by setting up a colored QR code, using some bogus address first, and coloring it. But you can't delete the bogus address afterwards to use the code as a placeholder for datamerge, because the OK button requires some initial content. Then I treid deleting the whole QR image from the frame, but then the datamerge process creates a brand new code in black again...

And Object Styles can't access the typical Fill color of the QR code either.

So it's still a matter of scripting, afterwards.