Multiple Catalogue Merges: Same Publication

[SeanRW]

I'd like to several sections of the same publication to be data-driven.

Catalog Merge seems to be a good initial option but it's limited (1
catalogue merge per publication).

Has anyone overcome this limit, programmatically or otherwise? A macro
could likely pully in the data from multiple sources, but no, the merge
features allows formatting to be applied to the merge area & fields. I don't
see how a macro could replicate that.

SeanRW
Version: Publisher 2007

 

[Mary Sauer]

Have you look at the articles concerning the Catalogue merge?

Mail, e-mail, and catalog merge
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/CH100502901033.aspx

The best help is the 2003 references.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/publisher/CH010504381033.aspx

 

[SeanRW]

Hi Mary - thanks for the tip. I agree that the 2003 Help is improved over
the 2007 help (certainly for that topic).

My ask is: I'd like to have multiple catalogue merge areas, within the same
publication, which doesn't seem possible. I'm open to some creative
workarounds though.

Barring waiting for Publisher V.Next (and before diving into creating a
macro), is it possible to create a composite publication?

e.g.
Top_NHL_Players.pub (a catalogue merge of the top players)
Top_NHL_Teams.pub (a catalogue merge of the top teams)
Composite_NHL.pub (a composite of the preceding 2 pubs).

 

[Ed Bennett]

Hi Mary - thanks for the tip. I agree that the 2003 Help is improved over
the 2007 help (certainly for that topic).

My ask is: I'd like to have multiple catalogue merge areas, within the same
publication, which doesn't seem possible. I'm open to some creative
workarounds though.

Top_NHL_Players.pub (a catalogue merge of the top players)
Top_NHL_Teams.pub (a catalogue merge of the top teams)
Composite_NHL.pub (a composite of the preceding 2 pubs).

Whilst it isn't possible to have two merge areas in the same
publication, I don't see why you couldn't merge to a new publication,
then set up a second merge to append to the new publication.