[libreoffice-users] Re: Mailmerge, working, fairly well, but...

Am 09.02.2012 21:58, Alex Thurgood wrote:
> Agreed, but can you set it up to make the paragraph as invisible
> depending on whether or not you have a varchar string ? I imagine so,
> but that is the question that the original poster was asking. Your macro
> would need to take care of that piece of trickery in order to mark the
> paragraph/section where the image is to be inserted as hidden when equal
> to NULL.


Personally I do not care about cosmetic trivia like an empty line in an 
address frame. But replacing the database field with nothing when the 
content is an empty string should be doable.
Nevertheless, my idea will not work since you can not replace the 
placeholder field with its file name content since the placeholder is 
just that.
But anything along that line should work after you printed into another 
odt document and keep track of the places where the picture should be 
placed (or not). I am not familiar with Writer.
I do not have the academic degree to understand the infamous streaming 
document on the OOo developer site. And I am very confident that even 
the best fabricated byte stream will not work in the context of the data 
access API which is obviously broken beyond repair.


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