Supported data sources
EasyCatalog uses Data Providers —other InDesign plug-ins written to interface with EasyCatalog— to import your data.
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EasyCatalog uses Data Providers —other InDesign plug-ins written to interface with EasyCatalog— to import your data.
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Your data is stored in a Data Source. Some examples of Data Sources are CSV (comma separated) files, a Google Docs Spreadsheet or a MySQL database.
Data Providers are provided as separate modules that must be installed alongside EasyCatalog. All of the Data Provider plug-ins are available for installation during the EasyCatalog installation process.
Each of the available Data Providers are shown on the File>New>EasyCatalog Panel
menu. This menu is split into two sections: the top half allows you to import data from a new data source; the bottom allows you to create a new panel from an existing .
The configuration required to import your data depends on the type of data you are importing:
Using the optional XML Data Provider module EasyCatalog can import an XML structure either from a local file or by connecting to a URL endpoint. The location of each record and field within the XML structure is defined using XPath. Further information on importing from an XML file can be found in .
Support for the following data types is provided by the optional Enterprise Data Provider module. Further information on configuring the Enterprise Data Provider module can be found .