Headless mail merge

[mcmurchy1917techy]

Hi Marco

I have a Base application with forms. On one form I press a button which then performs a macro which executes a mailmerge

The macro works out

  * what query to source the data dependent on which button has been pressed
  * where to send the output dependent on which button has been pressed

If your script calls LO headless the macro could pick up instructions from data created by the script.

Is this any help?

Alex


On 06/04/2022 21:50, Andrew Pitonyak wrote:
> The first step is always do it without a script until you like the result. Then you try to automate it.
>
> I did it a few times many years ago and do not remember the process.
>
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> On Apr 6, 2022, at 3:37 PM, Marco Marinello <lists at marcomarinello.it> wrote:
>
>     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 <http://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
>         <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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