We are using an industry-specific software to export employee resumes. One format that we need displays five examples of employee projects in an InDesign table, but the software cannot export examples and place one in each row of a table.
I intended to have the examples export as paragraphs formatted with nested styles to a text area that would be hidden and to use text variables based on character styles to insert the correct text in each cell of the table (so our only steps in this workaround would be to quickly change the paragraph styles of examples 2-5, hide the exported text by reducing the size of the cell where it exported, and run a script to convert variables to text so they will wrap).
However, I learned today that text variables (I’m using running headers) have length limits and some of our experience examples exceed the limit and cannot be edited down. I then tried cross references but it seems I can’t set these in advance of the text being in the document. I then went to Google, but can’t find the right words to get useful results.
Any suggestions for other InDesign features to use, plugins, etc. would be greatly appreciated. I should also note that to upload our templates to the software that will export resumes, they must be in idml format. Thank you!
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