Style individual cells and records differently

You want different records or values to look different – emphasise a price over a threshold, flag a status, give a row its own treatment. A Style node applies one of your existing InDesign styles, and a trigger makes it conditional.

Before you start

• The InDesign styles you want to apply, already defined in your document (paragraph, character, object, or table-cell styles).
• Your data mapped in the editor.

Step 1 – Add a Style node

In the Editor, add a Style node. In its properties, choose the scope – paragraph, character, object, or table-cell – and pick one of your existing InDesign styles.

📷 Screenshot [NEU]: the Style node with a scope and an InDesign style chosen

Step 2 – Connect the Style node

Connect the Style node to the Style input socket of the central node – alongside Data, Hyperlink, and Error Action. The style now applies to that element.

📷 Screenshot [NEU]: the Style node connected to the central node’s Style input

Step 3 – Make it conditional

To apply the style only when a rule is met, feed the Style node’s trigger from a condition node (or dynamic conditions for several cases). The style applies only when data flows through the trigger – for example, highlight a price only when it’s over a threshold.

📷 Screenshot [NEU]: the Style node’s trigger fed from a condition node

Styling tables

Tables work through the Table central node, which gives you two levels:

• The whole table – connect a Style node carrying an object style to the Table central node’s style input.
• A single cell – the Table central node has one input socket per placeholder. Connect a data node there to supply that placeholder’s content; that data node has its own style socket, and a Style node connected to it styles that cell.

Combine either with a trigger (Step 3) to style conditionally – for example, turn a stock cell red only when the value is below zero.

📷 Screenshot [NEU]: a data node on a table placeholder, with a Style node on its style socket

Preview and validate

Open the Preview (the eye icon, top right) to check the result, then click Validate all records (the button in the bottom-right corner of the workspace) to check the styling responds correctly.

Result

Styling that responds to your data – the right emphasis on the right records, automatically.

Related

• Style nodes
• Layout styles
• Condition node
• Dynamic conditions
• Central node types