On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Paul McNett <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Well, it sounds like you want "mail-merge" technology, which a word processor 
> is
> going to fulfill better than a banded report writer will.

One of my clients generates a set of documents in a format provided to
them by their customers, government agencies, who change their forms
on an irregular basis. Rather than tying me into the process every
time a form changed, the client choose to use a form-filling software
that can use ODBC to merge data. We developed a process in my
application where the client can generate a data set and put the
resultset into one of a set of temporary batch databases. Then, they
can do with the data what they want: Excel imports, Word mail-merges,
form generation, etc. And they can operate the form-filling software
to do whatever they need.



-- 
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com

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