User Defined Mailmerge
We want to use ReportBuilder for mail merge. I can see from the simple
example in the guide how to make up a mail merge on behalf of a user, but is
it possible to put together an environment whereby the user can design his
own mail merge and run this himself? I envisage an environment whereby the
user can drag and drop fields to possibly a TRichEdit surface and be able to
save this and run it in a real time mail merge situation.
Peter Knapp
example in the guide how to make up a mail merge on behalf of a user, but is
it possible to put together an environment whereby the user can design his
own mail merge and run this himself? I envisage an environment whereby the
user can drag and drop fields to possibly a TRichEdit surface and be able to
save this and run it in a real time mail merge situation.
Peter Knapp
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Comments
Although nothing like this currently exists in ReportBuilder, it could be
possible to create a custom richtext editor that would allow your users this
capability and then format the rich text to work correctly with
ReportBuilder. This may require the creation of a new Report component.
See the example in the \RBuilder\Demos\6. RCL\... on creating new
components. Also take a look at the TppCustomRichText.MergeDBFields method
inside the ppRichtx.pas file on how we parse the richtext text and insert
the field values.
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Nico Cizik
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