On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 19:35 -0500, Matt Needles wrote: > Jonathon Coombes wrote: <snip!> > > > > Hi, > > > > To my understanding, this is not a bug at all. The way the labels > > work is to only show a single sheet, no matter how many records > > you have selected. This is because all sheets of labels will be > > produced identically except the field data. There is no point in > > seeing 10 pages of field names all the same. It is only the data > > that will be changed. > > > > Either that, or I am missing your actual problem here? > > > > Regards > > Jonathon > You're right, Jonathon. However, there are a significant number of > users who complain about this behaviour. It seems they want a > mail-merge (which is really what we're discussing) to generate an > editable document for every record in the selection set. This does not > make sense, to me, as it is not efficient, and is totally un-necessary. > If you wanted to edit the documents, that _would_ make sense, but most > users will never edit the resulting documents, especially if they are > labels! All one needs is the template and the data that produced the > merge and you can always re-generate one or more records if something > happens to them, like a paper jam or something like that.
I agree totally Matthew. I see no point in having page after page of exactly the same layout, formatting etc. I guess it comes down to a change management issue. Is there an option on IssueZilla for such an issue? :) Regards Jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
