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 <[email protected]> >To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> >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 > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
