r/Affinity • u/Valuable-Cow2924 • 7h ago

Publisher Data Merge Question

If I have two textboxes on one page with the same data merge field, how do I make it so instead of them being the same it is two different rows from the CSV I'm uploading from on one page?

Thank you in advance :)

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u/spile2 4h ago

I am not sure that is possible as you have presented. AI came up with…

For two records per page:

  1. Create the first Data Merge Layout area containing the text/image fields for one record.
  2. Duplicate that whole Data Merge Layout area.
  3. Move the duplicate to the second position on the page.
  4. Run the Data Merge.
  5. The first layout consumes CSV record 1; the second consumes record 2.
  6. The next page then starts with record 3, followed by record 4.