I am using OO v 2.0.3 on Linux (Debian). I want to do an email merge with an html email document. I have 2 fields in a spreadsheet - a name, and email address, and a unique member_id for each name. The unique member+id goes into a link to a web page like this:
<a href="http://my.server.com/vote.jsp?id=member_id";>click this link</a>. My problem is getting the html part to work. I can send a plain text email with the fields properly inserted into the email. But, I want to format using html and "hide" the member_id in an html link. Why - the member_id is very long, and it spans more than one line. In the plain text email the user cannot click on the link because it spans 2 lines. Copy/Paste is possible, but difficult given the length of the url. What I have tried - 1. Create an html page in Writer. However, one cannot insert user fields into an html page in the composer. Also, there is no mail merge option under Tools when composing in html. 2. Compose the document in Writer. I can add a link in writer, but I cannot put a user field into the link. 3. View the html source and copy it to a new Writer document. Paste as plain text. Now I can insert the fields into the document, including the link. However, if I now do the email merge, I can either send the document as plain text or html. Neither one delivers an html email to my inbox. The plain text email has the wrong content-type - text/plain. If I send using the html option, the content-type is correct, but all the html tags are url encoded. For example: The original document has this html line: <P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>A Proposal to Advance the Date of the Annual Meeting</B></P> The email has this for the same line: <P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B>A Proposal to Advance</P> Note that the <P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B> tags in the original are transformed into <P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><B> in the email - everything has been url encoded so the original html tags are lost. How can I do an email merge with an html document? Thanks! -- Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
