While it was possible to do an update of an Indesign file with the "XML from Indesign" export, we found that this approach had some drawbacks, so a new update workflow is in the works.

It has the following characteristics:

• More fields will be updateable: picture links, cells in tables, distinct values and even (some) calculated fields will be updateable.
• Easy view of changes: compare if needed actual database value with the document value.
• Detailed control of the updates: one will be able to update 1 field, 1 page or 1 document the same way.

In a second stage, the update will work in both directions:

• Update the document with new content from the database or
• Update the database with new content from the document (with the necessary credentials)