Ted Roche wrote: > 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.
I guess the simplest implementation of this approach would be to output the dataset to CSV. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/dabo-users Searchable Archives: http://leafe.com/archives/search/dabo-users This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/[email protected]
