Re: [libreoffice-users] Serial Letters

Hi.
I wish mail merge and form letter would be distinguished. Are you 
merging to mail or a printed form (that may be a letter).
I regularly mail merge (though it is a form merge and not to any mail 
application) from an ods sheet, can you dump the mysql data to merge to 
a sheet and then do your merge.
Steve

On 2012-10-17 09:59, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> That does sound rather painful!  Even given Base's current almost complete lack of support in LO it 
> must surely be possible to do a proper mail-merge!  I thought this had been fixed ages ago.
>
>
> To quote Andreas "Most of the Base community resides on
> http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ which is also reachable
> under the forum.openoffice.org domain.
> There you find a search utility, tutorials, screenshots, example
> documents and macros. On that forum you find two or three Base experts
> at any time."
>
>
> If you haven't already been told about that forum then i can only apologise!
> Apols and regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > ________________________________
> > From: Heinrich Stoellinger <hc.stoellinger@aon.at>
> > To: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, 16 October 2012, 8:31
> > Subject: [libreoffice-users] Serial Letters
> >
> > Hello,
> > A couple of versions ago of LO I mentioned that I have a problem
> > with serial letters using Writer and MySQL-Views through Base.
> > When printing a letter "populated" with database-view variables
> >from just ONE tuple (=record) everything is fine. Unfortunately,
> > when selecting MORE than one tuple for printing, various different
> > content of the letter gets left out in all letters following the
> > first on.
> >
> > This might be "fixed" text (i.e. NOT from the db), graphics, but also
> > variables that should be included from the database.
> > Has anybody had the same experience?
> >
> > I am now at LO 3.6.3-rc1 under Linux-Mint-Maya and use the native
> > MySQL-connector, but the same problem was present in earlier, stable
> > releases of both LO and MySQL (using a JDBC or ODBC connection).
> >
> > When having to print - say - 150 letters, the fact that at present
> > I would have to print EVERY letter individually is unacceptable.
> > It certainly would prevent using LO in a business context!
> >
> > I wonder whether anybody else has had the same experience.
> > Regards
> > Heinz


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