Table

Lede. The central node of a Table placeholder workspace – iterates a data group and emits one row per match into the InDesign table.

Group: Endpoint · Available in: Table workspace · Central node: Yes

Purpose

• Render a line-items table inside an InDesign document, one row per matching secondary-sheet record.
• Drive per-cell styling and hyperlinks for each generated row.
• Remove the table entirely or substitute a fallback row when no rows match.

Where to find it

Auto-created when you open a Table placeholder editor.

How it works

Wire a Data Group node into Data Group. The Table iterates over the matching rows for the current master record, pulling each column socket once per row. Whatever the column sockets emit fills the corresponding column in the generated table.

The Empty Action socket fires when the data group returns no rows for the current master record.

Sockets

The column sockets are added by the table workspace based on the InDesign table layout; they don’t appear in the static registration.

No output sockets.

Example (end-to-end)

[Data Group: "Order lines"]      → [Table.Data Group]
[Data Text (table): Description] → [Table.Column 1]
[Data Text (table): Amount]      → [Table.Column 2]
[Action Table: "Fallback row"]   → [Table.EmptyAction]

Empty / error behaviour

• No Data Group connection: invalid; nothing flows.
• Data group returns zero rows: EmptyAction decides (remove table, fallback row, report error).

Limitations

• One data group per table.
• Per-table layout (columns, header) is configured in the InDesign template, not on this node.

Related nodes

• Data Group – the required input.
• Data Text (table) – the typical column-socket provider.
• Style Table Cell – per-cell styling.
• Action Table – empty-data handler.

Screenshots

📷 Screenshot [NEU]: Table workspace with data group + column wiring