Building Flow layouts from scratch

There are times that you are going to find that you won't have an XML file to start with.…The entire XML workflow will start in InDesign and work backwards.…In this case, you'll have to create your XML layout from scratch.…It's not as hard as it sounds.…The first step as always is you create your layout in InDesign as you would in…any other document.…Place the boilerplate items on the master page that will appear on every…page, and the some text frame on the master page that help the data flow…throughout your document.…In this case, my first step is usually to create my layout.…

If you hold Ctrl+Shift, Command+Shift on the Macintosh to unlock your master…text frame, you can then insert your cursor and type in your placeholders.…In this case, we'll just use the words First, Last, Title.…In the next line we'll insert the picture, so we'll leave that blank for now.…Type the word Phone:, space.…Insert a placeholder. It doesn't have to be complete phone number.…It doesn't even have to be numbers.…