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


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