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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: address book and kword
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-08-15 8:43:40
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On Thursday 15 August 2002 01:27, Blomberg David wrote:
> I am trying to do a mail merge type of setup with KWord.  Has such a
> thing been implemented yet?  I noticed I can drag enteries from address
> book into KWord, but there is no option I can find in KWord to set up a
> mail merge.  

KWord has mail merge features (see Tools/Configure Mail Merge), using
either an internal database (of addresses, saved into the .kwd)
or accessing an SQL database.
It looks like it can't access the addressbook directly though.

However if you create a document using the internal database,
and save the doc, you'll find something like this in it:
 <MAILMERGE>
  <PLUGIN library="kwmailmerge_classic" />
  <DATASOURCE>
   <DEFINITION>
    <FIELD name="Address" />
    <FIELD name="Name" />
   </DEFINITION>
   <CONTENT>
    <RECORD>
     <ITEM data="A1" name="Address" />
     <ITEM data="N1" name="Name" />
    </RECORD>
    <RECORD>
     <ITEM data="A2" name="Address" />
     <ITEM data="N2" name="Name" />
    </RECORD>
   </CONTENT>
  </DATASOURCE>
 </MAILMERGE>

So you could easily generate this XML from the addressbook, 
bundle it into a .kwd document, and use the mailmerge feature in that document.

Make sure to send the addressbook -> XML conversion script so that we
can put it up on the website, for other users ;-)

- -- 
David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david/
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