Headless mail merge

[Marco Marinello]

Hi Andew,


thank you for your answer. I'll take a look at the links you pointed to.

The idea is, starting from a template in odt/doc/docx, to "fill in the
gaps" and save the filled document. Is there any other way rather than
mail merge?


All the best,

Marco


Il 06/04/22 18:19, Andrew Pitonyak ha scritto:
>
> I had planned on documenting how to do this some years back and
> AndrewBase.odt, and my only notes say that I should document the new
> e-mail merge API released in OpenOffice.org version 2.01; that was a
> long time ago. 
>
> I generally do not have reason to use mailmerge, but did you want to
> send something by email or to print? 
>
> Someone posted a question about using mail merge with UNO in Basic here: 
>
> https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/syntax-for-using-spreadsheet-as-data-source-in-emailmerge-macro/24831
>
> From my perspective, the fact that they used the
> server com.sun.star.text.MailMerge is useful in that it provides a
> pointer to the service to look at. 
>
> Another request for help here: 
>
> https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=59312
>
> No answer; sadly. 
>
> In AndrewMacro.odt, there is an example that merges a bunch of
> documents from a directory into a single document and it is listed as
> being related to "mail merge", so I assume that somebody had run a
> mail merge and this processes created many documents. But again, I
> have not run a mail merge in many years. 
>
> On Wednesday, April 06, 2022 06:47 EDT, Marco Marinello
> <lists at marcomarinello.it> wrote:
>  
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> what's the easiest way to perform a mail-merge with libreoffice by
>> passing arguments from an automated script? Should I use UNO?
>>
>> Do you have any reference?
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Marco
>>
>>  
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