Hi Bill, william drescher wrote (05-07-10 12:49)
I would like to use OO to create a series of patient statements. At first look it would seem that mail merge is the best way to do this, but the documentation says that I need to first import the data into a base database, which is more complex than I can expect an office worker to do.
That is not exactly what is needed. What needs to be done, is register the 'database' as a datasource.
I generate the data in a php program an can write it to a file in almost any conceivable format, but csv seems simple. I wanted to use OpenTBS, but can't figure out how to have generate a document with the same template used over and over. Anyone have any suggestions ?
OK. If you then create a datasource with the csv as source (File>New>Database, Existing etc etc), you can leave that datasource remaining. All you have to do is replace the csv with new data (when the datasource is not in use by OpenOffice.org) and the new data is available for your merge.
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