On 7/5/2010 7:26 AM, Cor Nouws wrote:
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.
Regards,
Cor
Does the secretary need to import the csv file into base before
merging or is it automatic ?
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