RE: Microsoft Word and the iSeries

This is the same approach Kronos Workforce Central uses when generating
documents. Create a document in Word. Insert tags, such as
[person-last-name]; then save as XML or HTML. Upload to the Kronos
server. When Kronos generates a document, it searches for the tags and
replaces with the appropriate values.

Loyd Goodbar
Senior programmer/analyst
BorgWarner
TS Water Valley
662-473-5713
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Paris
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 10:05
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Subject: Re: Microsoft Word and the iSeries

Ideally they want to be able to generate the document on the iSeries

and 
place it in the IFS where Word can find it.  I also thought about
generating 
an RTF file and including replacement codes such as %%ORDERNO%% which
the 
programs could overwrite with the correct values, but on looking at an
RTF 
file's structure it looked too prone to errors.

I might be inclined to save off the Word doc I want in RTF format, 
incorporating field markers in the doc.  Then use that as an "HTML"
template 
for a CGIDEV2 program which would fill in the blanks and write the
resulting 
doc to the IFS.  SHouldn't be that hard - maybe I'll give it a shot when
I 
have 5.

Jon Paris
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