Hi Brian,
Thanks for your suggestions. WP universe seems promising at the moment
whereas I got no replies at all from the newsgroup.
I haven't tried this with earlier versions of WordPerfect as I've only
just decided to "simplify" things - the merge worked fine before, in
fact the early part of the merge still works as does the nested data
merge, but it fails to return to the main data source after the nested
data fields. I don't see a command anywhere to tell it to do this but
then it is supposed not to need it!
Regards,
Michael
Brian Hancock wrote:
Hi Michael,
I have not used WP X3, and I have generally avoided the Nest Data (or
Nest Secondary) merge command.
Don's suggestion of WPUniverse is a very good one, I have not lurked
there for a while but when I was active I found it very useful.
In the meantime.
- Has this combination without changes worked in previous versions of
WordPerfect?
- Have you tried merging just with the nested data (secondary) file,
just to see that it works ok?
I found after WP version 11 that some of the the more complex merges I
was performing stopped workings quite the same. The same basic set of
merge documents had worked in all previous Windows versions (and even
generally in WP5.1 for DOS), but once WP got to version 12, very
strange problems would occur, some of the problems were not always
repeatable, eg randomly, half of a graphic would not render; or the
merge would terminate after a several nest primary commands. Corel
support even back then was useless. My client has tried various later
versions of WP, and has returned to WP11.
Regards
Brian
----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Iannantuoni"
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Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 7:01 PM
Subject: [Dataperf] Slightly off subject
This may not directly be a DataPerfect question but I wonder if
someone might point me in the right direction - I have tried
WordPerfect technical support which seems next to useless here in UK
with the free support not able to answer a "how to" question and
"Premium" paid for support not returning calls 48 hours after contact
was made! Corel email support repeatedly tells me to contact my local
telephone support!!
After running various DataPerfect reports and tidying them up in
WordPerfect X3 I run a number of merges to produce Advertiser
Renewals, Invoices & Subscription Renewal letters ; these work fine,
however the form files I use include a table of costs for the various
advert formats which change from time to time. Rather than changing
the form files every time, I thought it worth running another
DataPerfect report to create a merge data file of the advertising
rates. Within the forms I have added a NESTDATA command just before
the table and inserted fields from the new advertising rates data
file. On running the merge, the original data is merged up to the
NESTDATA command, the advertising rates are merged correctly but
after that, the merge fails to return to the main data file and I get
blanks where fields should have been inserted.
Can anyone help with this at all please?
Thanks,
Michael
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