On 10/27/03 11:29 AM, Ed McCabe wrote:

I cant tell you which type XFCN it is - but when activated it does produce
its own word processor-like window.

In that case, Rev can't use it. It is a type-2 external. I think you are stuck writing your own mail merge in Transcript.


I've done this quite a lot though, and it isn't all that hard. Basically I take the boilerplate text and, wherever an insertion is to occur, I put a placeholder into the text. So you have boilerplate that looks something like this:

  Dear **name**,
    Thanks for the opportunity to work with **company**.

Then a script cycles through all the cards and replaces each placeholder with the appropriate text from the card:

 repeat with x = 1 to the number of cds
  put myBoilerplate into theText -- make a copy in a variable
  replace "**name**" with fld "name" of card x in theText
  replace "**company**" with fld "company" of cd x in theText
  -- save file, or print here
 end repeat

It's fast.

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