Dynamic QR Codes in Adobe InDesign

That's not the — usual — defintion of "dynamic QR code."

Being able to edit something to a different form is "dynamic" only in perhaps dictionary terms. The usual implication, from services that inherently control, track and charge for forwarding from the actual encoded URL, is often that the code itself (which is by now printed or distributed in many ways) is "dynamic" and magically changes. It does not.

I'm reading marketing drivel and word salad. Unless I missed something, all of this wondrous magic takes place in the back end, with nothing more than existing link- and click-tracking methods that happen to start with a QR code.

In any case, I can't see any way to do a 'dynamic QR code' on anything but a web site that pulls the code from a generating service of some kind. It does not seem to be — and to me cannot be — anything one-time document creation can manage. And the difference between changing the QR code and re-publishing the document and a "dynamic" process seems to be entirely semantic.

If there is anything to "dynamic QR codes" except some ability to have the code on a web page changed by a back-end process, please point to it. The codes themselves are static no matter how many times you update them, and again, every variation of this I am familiar with simply embeds tracking information to the nominal link and does all the fandancing somewhere in the back end. The QR code content is... just a link.

In any case, no, InDesign doesn't do any of this except that you can update a QR code and republish the document. If there is any tool, service or process that does not depend on subscribing to a provider like the one in your link — that is, a tool one designer uses and that requires nothing 'as a Service' — please elucidate further.

QR codes are static. If you need the URL changed you'll have to create a redirect.

Thanks for the suggestion, davecourtemanche! I didn't think of that. However our website is setup with an outsourced Sitelink management team and our URLs are pretty static as we have a couple of hundred products along with some educational links that haven't changed much over the years. I was hoping that the same QR code link could be changed without the QR code itself being changed since we are considering printing the codes that will be generated on literature, banners, etc. In this case we may decide that we want the printed codes to redirect elsewhere altogether at a later date, but using the same QR code instead of redirecting the link itself. I am grateful for this input. This may work for other applications. Thanks so much!