Layer Visibility

Lede. The central node of a Layer Visibility editor – collects layer toggles for the InDesign document per record.

Group: Endpoint · Available in: Layer Visibility editor · Central node: Yes

Purpose

• Toggle InDesign layers on or off per record from a single workspace.
• Drive per-language / per-variant visibility from a column value.

Where to find it

Auto-created when you open the Layer Visibility editor.

How it works

Wire Layer nodes into Layers. Each Layer node references one InDesign layer; the Layer Visibility node aggregates their directives and applies the resulting visibility map to the document during merge.

Sockets

No output sockets.

Example (end-to-end)

[Data Text: Language] → [Condition: == "DE"]
                            ├ Success → [Layer: "DE"] → [Layer Visibility.Layers]
                            └ Fail    → [Layer: "EN"] → [Layer Visibility.Layers]

Empty / error behaviour

• No Layers wired: no layers toggled; document uses the InDesign defaults.
• Layer node with no gate: layer is unconditionally visible.

Limitations

• Only applies to layers that have a matching Layer node wired. Other layers stay at their InDesign defaults.

Related nodes

• Layer – the only input source.

Screenshots

📷 Screenshot [NEU]: Layer Visibility editor with several Layer nodes