Headless mail merge

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Hallo,

I can send the macro's for mailmerge (email & print) starting from 
selected variable data in the Beamer (Datasource Browser) and using a 
writer document as template

Greetz

Fernand

On 4/7/2022 9:38 AM, mcmurchy1917techy wrote:
>
> 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
>>         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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