Reply To: Viewing Tagged Text Import options for linked files

No, I do not place them again. Yes, I have placed Tagged Text format files that are linked. I export the text file from a spreadsheet or database application, and I go to the Links panel and Update Links to refresh the Tagged Text file with the new data. I will never place them again, ever. They are permanently, forever more, going to be updated after export from xls and dbf by updating links.

I work in an automated production environment, with weekly newsletters that have several standing features for tables and graphs, including a price guide for 1,600 prices. The prices change, but the underlying tables do not. Until I can learn to create the entire thing from the database with idml or other means, I linked to the Tagged Text format files.

I'm still struggling to understand why the import options are sticky with linked text files, since by linking, aren't we saying the import options we are using right then are the ones we want for that file from then on? It doesn't seem logical that their import options (which I can never review again unless I'm placing them again) would actually change depending on something else I'm working on. I'm fairly new to InDesign, moving from Ventura, but if Update Links is treated the same as Placing a file again, then shouldn't I at least see the Import options again so I can recognize they have been changed by a previous setting?

Thanks! — Nancy