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Select the content for a bundle containing at least one Variable Data Document, for example, "Business cards"

You have selected a product of type "Bundle", which contains at least one "Variable data document" job inside.

The item [Business cards per set] defines the number of business cards in the VDP document. This item is read-only. The value of the [Sets per row] item defines how many times one row of the data source is applied to the VDP document. The user defines the value for the [Sets per row] item.

For example: [Business cards per set] = 10 and [Sets per row] = 10. Now, 100 business cards are printed for each row of the data source.

Procedure

  1. Select a product of type "Bundle", (which needs to be created by the administrator beforehand. The Bundle has to contain at least one "Variable data document" job inside.
  2. The system administrator defines if you can select a data source or if you must provide manual input for the product.

    • Select the [Data source]

      1. Click the [Browse] button.

      2. Browse to the data source file and click [Open].

        The supported data source types are: *.accdb, *.mdb, *.xlsx, *.xls and *.csv. Password-protected data sources of type *.xlsx, *.xls and *.csv are not supported. The application checks whether the data source is valid for the VDP document. An error message will appear when the data source contains incompatible field type(s) and/or required fields are missing.

      3. Select which table or sheet of the data source must be used.

        If the data source type is *.xls or *.xlsx, you must select the correct spreadsheet.

        If the data source type is *.csv or *.txt, you must define the [Text separator]. Optionally, you can define the [Text delimiter]. For example: "field1";"field2";"field3", where:

        • " is the [Text separator]
        • ; is the [Text delimiter]

      4. The rows in the data source are applied to the bundle and VDP with [Fixed document].

  3. You have to select the images when the [Kit] product contains a [VDP document] which contains image frames. You can select either separate images or a ZIP file containing images.

    • Select the zip file

      1. Click the [Browse] button. Select [Digital file].

      2. Browse to the zip file that contains the images. Images of type BMP, GIF, TIFF, TIF, JPEG, JPG, PNG and EPS are supported.

      3. Click [Open].

        The application unzips the file and applies the root of the images to the relative path of each image frame in the data source.

        NOTE

        The data source must contain a relative path to each image frame. You cannot submit the order when the data source contains absolute paths.

      4. The images are applied to the bundle and to all the VDP [Fixed document] with [Data source].

  4. Map each image to the concerning image field.

    Type the image name and type for each image field.

  5. Click button [Generate preview for all VDP jobs] to preview the variable data document. For each VDP document, you can see the preview being displayed.

    The same data source is applied to all the VDP [Fixed document] with [Data source] inside this bundle.

  6. Click [Validate all VDP jobs] to check if any rules are violated in the variable data document.

    This operation uses a number of rules specific for VDP data in combination with a number of preflight rules. For more information about the rules, see Validate the VDP data.

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