Applying data

Apply modes

Choose a mode under Auto-apply mode on document open in Settings. The icon beside the Copy Doc heading shows which one is on.

The usual steps

1. Open the artwork. The panel looks for the copy doc and shows it on the Copy Doc card.
2. The Copy Doc card shows the copy doc it found.

If the wrong copy doc is shown, use Change copy doc, or Browse for another copy doc to pick a file by hand. 3. Click Apply Data. 4. Read the result line and the review banner. See Review banner and troubleshooting. 5. Check every value against your copy doc before the artwork goes on.

Locked layers and groups

Tick Auto-unlock COPYSYNC_WRAPPER before applying in Settings and CopySync unlocks the layers and groups it needs, writes the data, then locks them again. If it is unticked, anything locked is skipped, and the result line says how many items were skipped. Frames outside the wrapper, such as ingredients frames, are unlocked and re-locked the same way.

Allergen bold

Team plan. Tick Also apply allergen bold automatically with Apply Data in Settings, or use the separate Apply allergen bold button when the artwork is ready. See Allergen bold and ingredients.

When data is applied again

• A new or changed copy doc is applied to the artwork.
• A document already synced with the same copy doc is not applied again, so your own edits are kept when you reopen the file.
• Apply Data always writes the copy doc's values over hand edits to those items.
• Clear sync status for this document (in Settings) makes the document count as new.

Good to know

• CopySync only applies data to the document it was loaded for, so switching files cannot apply the wrong copy.
• The panel follows the document in front.
• Closing the panel only hides it. It keeps running until Illustrator quits.
• The result line tells you how many items changed and how many were skipped as locked. "0 changes" means nothing matched: check names and tokens.