Canon PRISMAdirect 手册

You have selected a product of type "Variable data document". You have to select a [VDP
document]. You have to select a data source or you have to provide manual input for the product.
The variable data from the data source or the manual input is applied to the VDP document to
create the variable data document. You have to select a zip file containing images when the [VDP
document] contains image frames.

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.

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 system administrator defines if you can select a data source or if you must provide manual
input for the product.

1.

Select a "Variable data document" type product.

2.

Select the [VDP document]: 

1.

Click the [Browse] button. Select which file source you want to browse.
A [Browse] dialog will appear.

2.

Browse to the VDP document.

3.

Select the VDP document and click [Open].
The application checks if the VDP document is valid. The document must contain VDP data,
else the document cannot be added to the product.

NOTE

You cannot select a VDP document when the product contains a fixed VDP document. The fixed
VDP document is added to the product by the system administrator.

3.

You have to select a data source or you have to provide manual input for the product. 

Select the [Data source]

1. Click the [Browse] button. Select which file source you want to

browse.
A [Browse] dialog will appear.

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

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.

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

the data source type is *.csv or *.txt, you must define the [Sep-
arator]. Optionally, you can define the [Delimiter]. For exam-
ple: "field1";"field2";"field3", where:

" is the [Separator]
; is the [Delimiter]

5. The rows in the data source are applied to the VDP document.

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