great script needs some UX-usability changes though

[cgencer]

Hi, thank you for this great script. I see that it required some decent effort to put it together and make it also available publicly.
I discovered some usability issues on using it with large variable sets
I've used documents with 50+, even 100+ variables. most of them are visiblity flags. the script imports all variables as defaulted to text. it would be quite easier if you could

1. create a setting for the default variable type to be saved
2. create a keyboard change for variable types on the list-screen to change them easily and fast
3. change of variable-type by multi-selection would also be great
4. save the created variable settings as a setup document as well
5. auto-detecting visibility variables, depending on the data would also be nice.
6. some tools overwrite the illustrator file variable assignments. these should at least give an alert to the user to proceed.
7. give some usage examples and tutorials ;)

thank you again for creating this awesome script! it really helps quite a lot of users I believe. much kudo's!!!!

[hoochalaffa]

You can designate the variable type by a prefix of sorts in your column headers. An @ specifies the variables as images and a #, I think, designates the variable as visibility. If you’re working in excel you may have to put a ‘ before the @ or # for it to treat it as text. ‘@Image-One in excel would be @Image-One when exported to csv or txt.

you can save the import settings in one of the tabs of the script, it saves a json somewhere and you can load between different presets.

I use this script most days at work. Saves me so much time.

[MarshySwamp]

@cgencer

On your point #7, although dated, I blogged a series of articles:

https://prepression.blogspot.com/search?q=variableImporter