Configuring Dropdown Addresses on Business Card Templates

This article explains how to integrate a dropdown list for address prefixes in your business card templates using InDesign and the Invent platform. The solution allows you to maintain your original two-line address format while appending addresses from an Excel file.

By using Text Resources and Dropdown Variables, you can dynamically update the displayed address on your business card templates. This setup streamlines the process and avoids repetitive manual updates.

Follow this guide to configure the new address setting, ensuring your design remains consistent while offering flexibility for customer-specific address data.

Use cases

Integrating customer-provided addresses into business card designs.
Maintaining the original design layout from the InDesign file while adding dynamic address selection.
Automatically updating address fields based on selections from an Excel data source.

Key settings in Infigo

Text Resource: Located within the InDesign environment; used to input full addresses and set a key address.
Dropdown Variable: Configured in Invent; links to the Text Resource Set containing the addresses.
InventCsvMapperData: Previously used for customer-specific data; now applied for address management.

Step-by-step guide

Open your InDesign template file.
Add a new Text Resource:
- Enter the full addresses as the text.
- Set the first address as the key.
Create a new Dropdown Variable and link it to your Text Resource Set.
Add a new text box in your layout where the selected address will appear.
Set the text box type to Variable and assign the newly created Dropdown Variable.
If applicable, remove previous City, State, and Zip variables from your layout.
Export the updated MEX file from Invent.
Upload the MEX file to your product to test the dropdown functionality.

Configuring Dropdown Addresses on Business Card Templates