Content Object and Variable Types

Content objects

uCreate Print allows you to tag design objects with different types of content objects. By default, the Dynamic Content panel displays all types of available content objects. You can filter the display by choosing one of the following types from the list:

	Text	A text object. This string of text is shown literally in the document.
	Graphic	A graphic object. This content object points to an asset that will be shown in the document. The asset shown in the document may be a personalized image, created using the uImage application.
	Table	A table consisting of column objects, whose values are extracted for each recipient from the campaign’s data source(s).
	Text file	A text file containing a large amount of text or text formatted in a specific style.
	Visibility	Controls the visibility of the document layers/spreads to which the content object is assigned. Visibility content objects also support layer names. This allows one visibility content object to control the visibility of all layers, whose names match its values.
	Style	Applies a desired format, using one of the following types of Adobe InDesign styles: Character styles: when applied to text, the style content object can be used to format text attributes such as color, font, size, etc. You can also override a text style attributes with an alternative font, including the font size, font style and font color. Once a character style content object is applied to text, it overrides any static InDesign style: existing, static styles are replaced by the style content object, and new styles cannot be applied on top of the style content object. Object styles: when applied to a frame (whether a text frame or a graphic frame), the style content object can be used to format frame attributes such as fill, stroke, corner effects, etc. Notes: Each style content object value must be mapped to a matching InDesign style, which has the exact same name. A style content object may define an override color. This color does not override the color of the text frame or the graphic frame, only the color of its contents: text or graphic content such as fill or stroke color. InDesign styles that are grouped in the Styles panel cannot be accessed through uCreate Print.
	Web	XMPieRecipientKey is a content object created automatically when linking a document to uProduce or Circle.
	Link	A link to a URL, most often used to include a PURL in a design. The link will be active only in an interactive PDF output.

Note: Table, visibility and style content objects are incompatible with XMPie’s proprietary XLIM format. Documents containing them cannot be converted to XLIM. To check if your document is compatible with XLIM and remove incompatible features, use XLIM Preflight.

The following figures show the same InDesign dynamic document, personalized for different recipients - Jane and Jerry - using various types of content objects (indicated by their icons): text, graphic, style and visibility.

Example of an InDesign document personalized for Jane:

Example of an InDesign document personalized for Jerry:

Variables

By default, the Dynamic Content panel displays all types of available variables. You can filter the display by choosing one of the following types:

	String	A data type representing text and consisting of a set of characters that can also contain spaces and numbers.
	Number	A data type representing numbers.
	Date	A data type representing dates.
	Boolean	An expression using logical operators (AND, OR, NOT) and returning a true or false result.

Content Object and Variable Types

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