On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Malcolm Greene <[email protected]> wrote:
> Thinking outside the bun: Could you write a simple command line utility > to extract (via ODBC) the data you want to merge into a CSV, XLS, or > other local file format and have your WordPerfect mail merge routines > pull data from these local files? While this may add another level of > complexity to your solution, it may also make debugging your ODBC > connection problems a lot easier? Of course I CAN, it's just a disappointment if I MUST. In the interests of not overwhelming the list with Too Much Information, I may have provided too little: this is/was a practical working solution. A half-dozen data entry clerks crank out paperwork all day using this solution. However, their machines were "upgraded" from WinXP to Win7 and a few screwballs were thrown into the mix: 64-bit Win7 since the tech thought they should get to use all 4 Gb of RAM (rolls eyes). This is a short-deadline, high-speed and high-throughput office who would not accept any additional tinkering to get their work done. They can limp by with only two clerks able to crank out envelopes as it is slow season, but it's a problem I'll have to resolve, and hopefully not with your proposed workaround. So, thanks for the suggestion, and I hope I don't have to. There's lots of alternative work-arounds: generate the envelopes as PDFs directly out of the LAMP app, produce CSV, etc. I hope I can resolve this with a configuration change, as this is a big and complex system of which this is just a small aspect. > I have no recent experience with WordPerfect, but I've found that Word > handles mail merges *much* more reliably from simple, local text files > than it does via live connections to an external database. The last time I actually worked with WordPerfect, it was 4.1 on the Amiga, so yeah. But Reveal Codes is still Alt-F3! Thanks! -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
