Design with Data
I remember, I have seen this presentation at Adobe MAX 2015. Where we can use dummy / Sample data for content such as Name, city, country etc (Please also think to add lorem ipsum dummy paragraph if possible).
I would love to know, is there any plan to integrate that concept in near future. Its a really great functionality and time consuming important feature for us.
Ref - Design with Data - Adobe MAX 2015 - Sneak Peeks:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8ebPSJR3U0
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Suresh Khana
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Looks great - but keep it simple Adobe. Don't forget about the basics....strong but basic bitmap capabilities along with vector capabilities. Enough so that we don't have to round-trip into PS or AI as often. Love these cool innovative features though. I'm looking forward to this app.
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Axel Hermes
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Please also make data population of components in a repeating grid possible.
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Jason Roy
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I really agree using paper as the first thing. Secondly understand the nature of the business, their process. What value addition the business is bringing to the community or the reasons that they need to maintain DBMS software.
Put their process flow in paper so data architect has fairly have a good picture what is really going-on. Classify/identify Master data and transactional data, with that process you'll know what is key entity and its attributes that's really make them important for the business.
If there are multiple sources or domains, prepare a high level picture and its integration points, and narrow down each domain or subject area. I can add more to it as a step-by-step approach. Here it might be overwhelming.
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Vinaykumar C
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A plugin named Repetor has these features. Check it out
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Adedoyin Akande
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Plugins provide room for this.
In fact, at the point of posting this comment, there are several plugins available for this. -
Amin Khadmi
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I believe this is plug-in is already done, plugin name Google Sheet you can import data with this plugin in multiple way. Like JSON, CSV files and also can paste direct link of share documents.
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adsoffice
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Please add the ability to have multiple columns text-replacement in the same.
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Roger
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It would be really nice if we could import a json file from the actual product to see how real data would fit the design
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Matt
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I would like to be able to create an iphone/ipad compatible character sheet for role-playing games. I would need to be able to have user defined fields and drop down menus that are connected to a database. I don't even need the drop menus if I can type in the information for everything. I have no idea if this is even possible with Adobe XD. This is my first time trying the application. I have attached a basic character sheet that I am trying to recreate with user defined fields.
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Ben
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It would be awesome if there was a method to select an artboard and it generates an embedded excel data file in Adobe XD with rows and columns (kinda like you see in "keynote" application- See image) After that, I can export the data into an excel doc or to InCopy to have the copywriters fill in the right content. After the writers are done updating the content. I can then import or relink the updated data to Adobe XD seamless.
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Ralph Williams
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Any update on the progress of this?
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Anonymous
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Feature started two years ago and nothing new about it yet? C'mon, guys... make it happen.
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Justin Caruana commented
much needed
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Boots
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Seriously Adobe?!? You used the "Design with Data" feature as a main selling point of Project Comet three years ago. I remember being blown away at your SXSW session. It's unbelievable that there is no word about it now. Not sure why you even released XD. Without the data import feature... meh.
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Harun Alikadić
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It would be great if we could simply copy paste data from spreadsheet: select cells in a column, copy, select a text field in a repeat grid, paste - it populates all other instances in that grid.
Managing separate text files especially when you need to change order between rows is time consuming.
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Kevin Consen commented
'feature started' two years ago... WHERE IS IT? XD
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Steve Jackson
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The ability to bind UI elements to a JSON data source would be a killer feature. Primarily when wanting to rapidly prototype a change to an existing product where the data already exists (as do the JSON sources). This would enable design teams to focus on solving complex UX requirements and not waste precious time maintaining faux / mirror data.
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Rora
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What I'd really like to see is the ability to import data as a JSON file and then refer to it using something like mustache calls:
{{ data.item.name }}Then connect the symbol to a data.json file and set my repeat grid...that would be pretty slick.
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Adobe
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It's just 3 years later! What do you expect from Adobe!? Please continue to pay for your subscription and we'll maybe improve Adobe XD. But it'll be very very slow. We hope you have a second job, because right now Adobe XD is pretty useless for making money.
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Alex
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Well said! Without performing data this is pointless!
Either you make a "Data Merge" like this Adobe MAX or like you already have for a long time in InDesign, or you make it exportable to insert data.Even though it's a handy app, 5 minutes on it, is 5 minutes wasted, since you're not going to take advantage of what's been made.