Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Need Help Setting Up Mail Merge

Hi :)
So, Base can't directly read FMPro's back-end?

Is there a back-end that both FMPro and Base could read?

Sorry, i am just curious.  Possibly someone has already answered this.  If so then i will find it 
when i go back through my emails.  
Regards from
Tom :)  


--- On Sun, 24/6/12, Alex Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Alex Thurgood <alex.thurgood@gmail.com>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Need Help Setting Up Mail Merge
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Sunday, 24 June, 2012, 9:20

On 24/06/2012 07:03, Charles218 wrote:

Hi Charles,

> Using the "Address Data Source" wizard, I can not get everything in place. I
> have a data document that is exported from Filemaker Pro, I tried "tab" and
> "csv" both. Is there a correct file type that I should use? Here are the
> steps that I am taking,

Which separator did you use for your FMPro export to CSV ?
Which file extension did you give your "CSV" file ?

If your file doesn't have a CSV extension it won't work.
If your file is TSV instead of CSV, then it won't work either. By default, I seem to recall that 
FMPro exports as TSV and not CSV (despite calling it CSV).

> Path to the text files - I browse to the file that Filemaker exported, but
> it is greyed out. I can only select the folder that contains the exported
> csv or tab file.

If the file is greyed out, then it is not recognised as a CSV file by LibreOffice, which means that 
it either has a problem with its name, the file extension name or some other kind of structural 
problem which the CSV filter in LO is unable to parse.

BTW, if you want to make your mailmerge datasource editable, there are ways of exporting data and 
structure from FMPro and using that to create a LO database file (which will contain editable data 
sets).


Alex


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