Sketch Data Faker

Sketch Data Faker enables you to insert random, yet predictable content into your Sketch files. You can specify what type of content to insert for each layer.

• You can choose from 130+ types of data including Full Name, Email Address, Telephone, Paragraph, etc
• It will insert a random version of that data into the layer that you specify
• You can refresh that layer over and over to get a different version of that same type of data
• It also works inside symbols. This means one duplicated symbol can have different random content of the same type (i.e. creating a list of names in a table)
• It also works with symbols imported from Sketch Libraries

• Installation
• How to Use
  • Manual Mode
  • Automatic Mode (Recommended)
    • Automatic Mode Content Types
  • Layer Renaming Helper
• Full List of Available Content
  • Addresses
  • Product Names and Descriptions
  • Company Names and Descriptions
  • Database
  • Dates
  • Finance
  • Computers
  • Internet
  • Lorem
  • Names and Job Titles
  • Phone Numbers
  • Random
  • Files
• Localization / Translations
  • List of Locales
• Changelog
• Data Source and Credits

Installation

• To use Sketch Data Faker, install the plugin by double-clicking on the sketch-data-faker.sketchplugin file.

How to Use

• Once installed, data will become available to you in the native Sketch Data Menu just like other types of data.
• You can view more about how to use Sketch's Data features here: https://sketchapp.com/docs/data/

There are 2 ways to use it: Manual and Automatic (Recommended)

• In manual mode, you select one of the default types of data that Sketch Data Faker has made available in the dropdown menu. No setup/changes to your Sketch file needed, but there are only a few types of data available
• In automatic mode, you can insert much more data - over 130 types of data, by renaming your text layer with the name of the content you want. Refer to the chart below for the names to use.

Using Manual Mode

1. To use manual mode, right-click on a text layer. Inside the Data Feeds menu that, look for Sketch Data Faker.
2. Inside there you can choose the type of data you want to insert into your layer. For example if you choose Full Name, your layer will now be replaced with a random full name (i.e. Jane Doe).

• The layer text will be replaced with whatever type of data you chose.
• It's now linked up permanently and good to go, so you can refresh the data to get different content of the same type
• It also works inside symbols and library imports, offering unique content for each layer

Using Automatic Mode (Recommended)

1. In automatic mode you first rename your layer to tell the plugin what type of data you want to receive (see the chart below for all the data types you can use).
2. Then, you right-click on the layer and go to the Data Feeds menu, and inside Sketch Data Faker, choose the Auto (Layer Name) option. This tells the plugin to read your layer name and insert that type of data. You only need to do this once per layer and you can do it to multiple layers at the same time

• Your layer text will now be replaced with data matching what you asked for
• You can refresh to get different content of the same type
• It also works inside symbols and library imports, offering unique content for each layer

Automatic Mode Content Types

• The chart below has the data types (i.e. address.zipCode) that you can choose from.
• Make sure to use the exact spelling including capitalization and the "."

Quick examples:

• To insert a US Zip Code, rename your text layer address.zipCode
• To insert a Street Name, rename your text layer address.streetName
• To insert a random sentence, rename your text layer lorem.sentence
• To insert a Company Name, rename your text layer company.companyName
• To insert a Domain Name, rename your text layer internet.domainName
• There are words, colours, cities, states, prices, product names, verbs, adjectives, catch phrases, buzzwords, and more.

Layer Renaming Helper

If you want help renaming your layers, Sketch Data Faker provides a menu inside the Sketch Plugin menuitem that will allow you to change your layer names without typing:

1. In Sketch, select the layer(s) you want to rename
2. Go to Plugins -> Sketch Data Faker -> Set Layer Name and choose the type of content you want to insert into that layer

2b. You can repeat this process for all layers you want to insert new content into

3. With the layers still selected in Sketch, set the data source* Data -> Sketch Data Faker -> Auto (Layer name)
4. Watch as all your selected layers get replaced with new content!

*You can find the Data menu either by: Right-click on a selected layer, Control-click on a selected layer, from the Layer menu item in Sketch

Full List of Available Content

You can name your layer to of these Layer Names below. Remember to follow the category.type format (i.e. address.city, not just city).

Addresses

Product Names and Descriptions

Company Names and Descriptions

Database

Dates

Finance

Computers

Internet

Lorem

Names and Job Titles

Phone Numbers

Random

Files

Localization / Translations

Sketch Data Faker supports localization on all text strings, where Faker.js also supports it. In order to set a layer to a specific language or locale, append |xx to the end where xx is the local code.

For example, if you want a First Name to be German, you would use name.firstName|de as your layer name. If you want the product name to be in Canadian English, you would use commerce.productName|en_CA.

See the full list of locales below. Note that Sketch Data Faker will fall back to English if the locale code is wrong or if there is no available translation for that term.

List of Locales

• az
• cz
• de
• de_AT
• de_CH
• en
• en_AU
• en_BORK
• en_CA
• en_GB
• en_IE
• en_IND
• en_US
• en_ZA
• en_au_ocker
• es
• es_MX
• fa
• fr
• fr_CA
• ge
• id_ID
• it
• ja
• ko
• nb_NO
• nep
• nl
• pl
• pt_BR
• pt_PT
• ru
• sk
• sv
• tr
• uk
• vi
• zh_CN
• zh_TW

Changelog

• 0.8.0 - Update depenencies including support Faker.js 5.2.0 with more data!
• 0.7.0 - Bring back ability to use in Symbols imported from Libraries
• 0.6.1 - Revert work on library imports in order to fix bug with symbols
• 0.6 - Use on text layers as part of library imports
• 0.4 - New Feautre: i18n
• 0.2.1 - New Feature: Layer renaming helper in plugin menu
• 0.1.9 - New Feature: Ability to use on symbols

Data Source and Credits

All data is from the great faker.js project: https://github.com/marak/Faker.js/