[libreoffice-users] Re: Need Help AGAIN with Mail Merge

Am 24.06.2012 23:21, Charles218 wrote:
> Tom,
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> I checked the View - Fields command and it is not enabled.

The view status of the place holders should not matter at all. It 
toggles between "<Field Name>" and "Database.Table.Field Name". The 
latter lets you prove that each field is connected to the right source.

I can not reproduce your problem with a plain text connected database 
and LibreOffice 3.5 under Linux.

> Here is a screen shot of what I see when using the F4 key.
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> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3992018/View_Using_F4.jpg
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> And here is what I get when using the print dialog.
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> http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3992018/View_Using_Print_Dialog.jpg

From that screen you call the print command (Ctrl+P)
Then you are prompted if you are going to print a serial letter which 
should be confirmed.
Then you see a huge dialog with another instance of the data source 
window on top, a section where you choose the selection mode for the 
records (All displayed records | selected | from...to) and the output 
medium (printer, document or one document per record).

Some of these options suffer from the same old bugs since years, but 
printing _all_displayed_records_ into a _single_document_ should always 
work.

If your table has only one record or when you want to print only one 
record out of many records, you can
- switch the fields to show the names (View>Field Names)
- Click the row selector (grey box in front of each record) in order to 
select the record in the data source window.
- Click the data-to-fields button in the data source window. Now the 
fields display the actual data of the selected record.
- Print (Ctrl+P)
- Do not confirm the serial print. Just print the document as shown.

> The placeholders are never replaced with the data from the source file. I
> can follow through and either print or save the document, but the data never
> appears in the print or the saved file.

Before someone drops in with some absurd assumptions about Java: All 
this works without any Java.

Hope this helps,
A.S.


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