Custom fields, also known as text variables on other softwares, would be a massive help in template documents. Currently I have a template (actually just a regular document I copy elsewhere whenever needed since Affinity Publisher does not have a true template function) for my design proposals, and I have to Find & Replace things like client name or project name so it changes across the whole document. If I could define, insert and later edit a field such as client name, I wouldn't have to Find & Replace all the time. Thanks! We would love it if Publisher could import data from a file and load it into fields throughout a template document. I know Photo does fields, and Publisher appears to do some pre-defined fields. If we could define custom fields and then populate them with data imported from a file … tab-delimited, csv, json, xml, whatever … that would clear our way to migrating to Publisher completely. We would love it if Publisher could import data from a file and load it into fields throughout a template document. I know Photo does fields, and Publisher appears to do some pre-defined fields. If we could define custom fields and then populate them with data imported from a file … tab-delimited, csv, json, xml, whatever … that would clear our way to migrating to Publisher completely. I came to make a request for this. It's absolutely needed and extremely useful!! I have several documents that grow over time as new information gets added.  For example one is a list of Wine Awards—when a new award comes in, I make a new page in the appropriate section and let the following pages shuffle down. Having the ability to define Custom Fields would allow me to set up inputs for repeating subheads (for a subgroup of awards all coming from the same competition for example). Hoping this makes it into APub 1.8 Im going to +1 this! This is a must have for me, Text variables was probably one of my favorite tools in InDesign for integrating timestamps into a graphic on a template, but if I cant change the formatting of the time, date, paths, names, etc in order to fite the overall design of the spread, it kind of makes the Fields panel useless to me. Im not going to use it if I cant control how it looks Desktop:  Windows 11 Pro, version 22H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
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