Good point. Not worried about the coding in a file I can understand. My brain was thinking native word format where you never know what all the garbage is really doing. XML does make it nicer to work with and I have already use CGI to "mailmerge" with XML. No different that HTML. Even just using GET XML, scan XML, WRITE XML would probably work.
After the XML is resaved what would be the easiest way to actually print the XML? Would you need to launch Word on a PC from RPG and tell it to load the XML file and print?
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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Klement
Sent: Friday, September 10, 2010 1:31 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i / System i
Subject: Re: RPG Word Mail Merge
I don't see the problem, here...
Have your user create a document, and put something like (#NAME#) and
(#ADDRESS#) where they want variables to appear. Save it in DOCX format to the IFS.
Write an RPG program that opens the DOCX document and scans it for the various fields, replacing them with the appropriate data, and writing it back out to the IFS.
Sure it'll take a little bit of programming... but we're programmers,
that's what we do. And scan/replace can hardly be called "difficult."
On 9/10/2010 10:00 AM, Mike Cunningham wrote:
Works great first time -pain to constantly update the letter text
which for use is almost daily because of the number of letters we
have. I would prefer a mailmerge solution that would let a user
department edit the letter text, add the variables where they belong
and not need to play with the document every time they change it. Can
anyone say OfficeVision/400 :)
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