It would be great if you could point to an online data source in Word. Tell Word that your CSV file is at http://mysite.com/data.csv. Everyone would have a copy of the Word file. Then just schedule CF to update your CSV.
Maybe some VBScript or .NET? Anyone know if that's possible? -Brad -----Original Message----- From: Andy Mcshane [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 5:48 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Web Based Mail Merge? (not email!) I did something like this some time ago, I created the word document, put place holders in for my data, saved it as an rtf file. I then had to copy the RTF text into a .cfm page, process my place holders to put my text in and then save the RTF text back out to another file. This worked well. This was fine when I could control content of the document. Where this requirement now differs is that I want the user to create their own RTF documents and then upload them to our web server into a template directory. Let me run this idea by you, If I provide the user with a list of pre-defined merge field codes, i.e. the coldfusion code that maps to a required peice of data in the database, so that they can create their very own RTF documents, let them upload the document to the template directory on the server, I could then read the RTF file line by line to replace the merge fields with data and write out completed letters to another file. Does anybody see any problems with this idea? Are text file read & writes much of an overhead for the server? I envisage that anywhere between 1 - 300+ letters may need to be produced at any one time. ________________________________ you could generate RTF files on the files. add <<mailmerge fields>> to a word document - save as RTF and us CF to generate RTF and make available for download. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:201345 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
