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Nicholas Herlick
1-Sep-2006, 12:03 PM
We are creating a mail-merge tool tied to our customer database. One of the
panels will allow the user to build a mail-merge field set from a master
list of fields.

There's an example of what we need in Studio 11.1. The main-file field
selector in the cWinprint2 report creation wizard is exactly the type of
interface we are looking for. Any chance that its components could be made
available for adaptation into other apps?

Nick Herlick

Bob Worsley
4-Sep-2006, 06:13 PM
The dbImport wizard on vdf-guidance has a file/field selector, would that
help?
Bob

"Nicholas Herlick" <nick@memsys.com> wrote in message
news:lD4RIiezGHA.3652@dacmail.dataaccess.com...
> We are creating a mail-merge tool tied to our customer database. One of
the
> panels will allow the user to build a mail-merge field set from a master
> list of fields.
>
> There's an example of what we need in Studio 11.1. The main-file field
> selector in the cWinprint2 report creation wizard is exactly the type of
> interface we are looking for. Any chance that its components could be
made
> available for adaptation into other apps?
>
> Nick Herlick
>
>
>
>

John Sutton
5-Sep-2006, 10:02 AM
Nick,
I have a view and dialog that I use to do this very thing, it's
written in VDF7.

The view allows you to select a 'form', from a dialog, which is a Word
document and supply some basic information about it.
Then you switch to another tab and select file.fields to 'put' on the
document in the merge fields. This tab has a dbGrid on it that when
you prompt it, calls a dialog that allows you to select any file.field
in your file list. I think it works pretty slick, and allows the
clients to roll their own merges.... The file.field dialog is very
generic, it just reads the file list and populates a List, and when
you click on one, it populates the next list with fields, so you can
select file.field over and over, without any coding changes.

John
KBS
On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 10:03:21 -0700, "Nicholas Herlick"
<nick@memsys.com> wrote:

>We are creating a mail-merge tool tied to our customer database. One of the
>panels will allow the user to build a mail-merge field set from a master
>list of fields.
>
>There's an example of what we need in Studio 11.1. The main-file field
>selector in the cWinprint2 report creation wizard is exactly the type of
>interface we are looking for. Any chance that its components could be made
>available for adaptation into other apps?
>
>Nick Herlick
>
>

Phil Kirby
6-Sep-2006, 02:12 AM
John,
Your control sounds very useful. Any chance of posting it here ?
Phil


"John Sutton" <JohnSutton@KansasBankersSurety.com> wrote in message
news:lp3rf2p1c5mt1gfn1pbrn4091klh5ufl78@4ax.com...
> Nick,
> I have a view and dialog that I use to do this very thing, it's
> written in VDF7.
>
> The view allows you to select a 'form', from a dialog, which is a Word
> document and supply some basic information about it.
> Then you switch to another tab and select file.fields to 'put' on the
> document in the merge fields. This tab has a dbGrid on it that when
> you prompt it, calls a dialog that allows you to select any file.field
> in your file list. I think it works pretty slick, and allows the
> clients to roll their own merges.... The file.field dialog is very
> generic, it just reads the file list and populates a List, and when
> you click on one, it populates the next list with fields, so you can
> select file.field over and over, without any coding changes.
>
> John
> KBS
> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 10:03:21 -0700, "Nicholas Herlick"
> <nick@memsys.com> wrote:
>
>>We are creating a mail-merge tool tied to our customer database. One of
>>the
>>panels will allow the user to build a mail-merge field set from a master
>>list of fields.
>>
>>There's an example of what we need in Studio 11.1. The main-file field
>>selector in the cWinprint2 report creation wizard is exactly the type of
>>interface we are looking for. Any chance that its components could be
>>made
>>available for adaptation into other apps?
>>
>>Nick Herlick
>>
>>
>

John Sutton
6-Sep-2006, 09:02 AM
I wouldn't exactly call it a control, but I will post it..........
:o)

John
KBS

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:12:21 +1000, "Phil Kirby" <phil@ksoft.com.au>
wrote:

>John,
>Your control sounds very useful. Any chance of posting it here ?
>Phil
>
>
>"John Sutton" <JohnSutton@KansasBankersSurety.com> wrote in message
>news:lp3rf2p1c5mt1gfn1pbrn4091klh5ufl78@4ax.com...
>> Nick,
>> I have a view and dialog that I use to do this very thing, it's
>> written in VDF7.
>>
>> The view allows you to select a 'form', from a dialog, which is a Word
>> document and supply some basic information about it.
>> Then you switch to another tab and select file.fields to 'put' on the
>> document in the merge fields. This tab has a dbGrid on it that when
>> you prompt it, calls a dialog that allows you to select any file.field
>> in your file list. I think it works pretty slick, and allows the
>> clients to roll their own merges.... The file.field dialog is very
>> generic, it just reads the file list and populates a List, and when
>> you click on one, it populates the next list with fields, so you can
>> select file.field over and over, without any coding changes.
>>
>> John
>> KBS
>> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 10:03:21 -0700, "Nicholas Herlick"
>> <nick@memsys.com> wrote:
>>
>>>We are creating a mail-merge tool tied to our customer database. One of
>>>the
>>>panels will allow the user to build a mail-merge field set from a master
>>>list of fields.
>>>
>>>There's an example of what we need in Studio 11.1. The main-file field
>>>selector in the cWinprint2 report creation wizard is exactly the type of
>>>interface we are looking for. Any chance that its components could be
>>>made
>>>available for adaptation into other apps?
>>>
>>>Nick Herlick
>>>
>>>
>>
>

John Sutton
6-Sep-2006, 10:47 AM
Here it is, don't poke too much fun!!!
John
KBS
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:12:21 +1000, "Phil Kirby" <phil@ksoft.com.au>
wrote:

>John,
>Your control sounds very useful. Any chance of posting it here ?
>Phil
>
>
>"John Sutton" <JohnSutton@KansasBankersSurety.com> wrote in message
>news:lp3rf2p1c5mt1gfn1pbrn4091klh5ufl78@4ax.com...
>> Nick,
>> I have a view and dialog that I use to do this very thing, it's
>> written in VDF7.
>>
>> The view allows you to select a 'form', from a dialog, which is a Word
>> document and supply some basic information about it.
>> Then you switch to another tab and select file.fields to 'put' on the
>> document in the merge fields. This tab has a dbGrid on it that when
>> you prompt it, calls a dialog that allows you to select any file.field
>> in your file list. I think it works pretty slick, and allows the
>> clients to roll their own merges.... The file.field dialog is very
>> generic, it just reads the file list and populates a List, and when
>> you click on one, it populates the next list with fields, so you can
>> select file.field over and over, without any coding changes.
>>
>> John
>> KBS
>> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 10:03:21 -0700, "Nicholas Herlick"
>> <nick@memsys.com> wrote:
>>
>>>We are creating a mail-merge tool tied to our customer database. One of
>>>the
>>>panels will allow the user to build a mail-merge field set from a master
>>>list of fields.
>>>
>>>There's an example of what we need in Studio 11.1. The main-file field
>>>selector in the cWinprint2 report creation wizard is exactly the type of
>>>interface we are looking for. Any chance that its components could be
>>>made
>>>available for adaptation into other apps?
>>>
>>>Nick Herlick
>>>
>>>
>>
>

John Sutton
6-Sep-2006, 10:47 AM
no text here

John Sutton
6-Sep-2006, 11:05 AM
what I forgot to include was that there is a couple of properties that
are set with file and field, which the invoking program needs to know
to get.

In VDF 12, you could return a struct to pass this information.

HTH
John
KBS

On Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:12:21 +1000, "Phil Kirby" <phil@ksoft.com.au>
wrote:

>John,
>Your control sounds very useful. Any chance of posting it here ?
>Phil
>
>
>"John Sutton" <JohnSutton@KansasBankersSurety.com> wrote in message
>news:lp3rf2p1c5mt1gfn1pbrn4091klh5ufl78@4ax.com...
>> Nick,
>> I have a view and dialog that I use to do this very thing, it's
>> written in VDF7.
>>
>> The view allows you to select a 'form', from a dialog, which is a Word
>> document and supply some basic information about it.
>> Then you switch to another tab and select file.fields to 'put' on the
>> document in the merge fields. This tab has a dbGrid on it that when
>> you prompt it, calls a dialog that allows you to select any file.field
>> in your file list. I think it works pretty slick, and allows the
>> clients to roll their own merges.... The file.field dialog is very
>> generic, it just reads the file list and populates a List, and when
>> you click on one, it populates the next list with fields, so you can
>> select file.field over and over, without any coding changes.
>>
>> John
>> KBS
>> On Fri, 1 Sep 2006 10:03:21 -0700, "Nicholas Herlick"
>> <nick@memsys.com> wrote:
>>
>>>We are creating a mail-merge tool tied to our customer database. One of
>>>the
>>>panels will allow the user to build a mail-merge field set from a master
>>>list of fields.
>>>
>>>There's an example of what we need in Studio 11.1. The main-file field
>>>selector in the cWinprint2 report creation wizard is exactly the type of
>>>interface we are looking for. Any chance that its components could be
>>>made
>>>available for adaptation into other apps?
>>>
>>>Nick Herlick
>>>
>>>
>>
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