[Libreoffice-qa] Mail Merge Wizard

[Robinson Tryon]

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Steve <javack at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ok, so to clarify I tried to use Mail Merge both on :
>
> Mac Mavericks (Mac Book Pro 64 bits) /  LibreOffice production release 4.1.5
> MS Windows 7 Enterprise SP1 64 bits / LibreOffice  4.2.3.3
>
> In both cases, when configuring the mail merge settins with SMTP/SSL, it
> always fails and  LibreOffice freezes. From what I understood from you I
> shall confirm this bug at http://bugs.freedesktop.org/

Yes, please. Feel free to put me (qubit at runcibility.com) in the CC
List for the bug.

A clear set of repro steps is greatly appreciated (so that we can
triage the bug quickly and get it over to the devs for review).

> About my wish to "save each document with a specific name" , in my case that
> would be a workaround of the above issue as I can not send the documents by
> mail, my idea was to generate all the files MyFile_customerID1.pdf,
> MyFile_customerID2.pdf, MyFile_customerID3.pdf, MyFile_customerID4.pdf etc
> ... and then create a dummy PHP script to send each document by mail to the
> right recipient. But I imagine that ability to save documents with a
> specific name ( having a field from the DataSource used to create the
> document template) could be usefull in many other cases; would you consider
> such RFE ?

That sounds like a good enhancement to me -- please write it up in a
bug report and submit it.

I can't make any promises about when it might be implemented, but if
it is a good addition to the Mail Merge process, it's quite likely
that other people will find the feature interesting and may be
encouraged to work on adding the functionality to LibreOffice. If you
have some programming experience and would like to give the work a
shot yourself, I'd be more than happy to introduce you to the devs and
get you started with an EasyHack to give you an introduction to the
code base.


Best,

-- 
Robinson Tryon
LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald
The Document Foundation
qubit at libreoffice.org