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mcmurphy · Joined: 06 Aug 2006 Posts: 49

Surely there must be others out there running Linux on the desktop unable to use the MS Word merge features of VT...

This feature has been done before however appears to have fallen over with the updated versions of 5.x

I cannot imagine it should be too hard for a programmer familiar with the package to tweak what has been done already to enable this feature.

If anyone else is interested in getting this feature up and running please speak up.

Thanks

Buttonman · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 9:27 am Post subject: OpenOffice Mail Merge

Happy New Year!

I would like to put my hand up for this one - and offer USD200 plus project management skills to ensure that the work gets done.

Cheers

Scott

cyberdude · Joined: 05 Nov 2006 Posts: 17

Did this ever get done?

Galactic Dominator · Joined: 18 Oct 2006 Posts: 161

I'll pledge $100, but in the meantime you can use OO to connect directly to the db and print labels/form letters that way...I just finished print about 18,000 labels. An integrated solution would be nice though.

joebordes · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:19 pm Post subject: Re: OpenOffice Mail Merge

Hi guys,

Great news that your up to paying it will come in handy. You can make payments through my paypal account on tsolucio.com :-))

I got this working (based on code bits in this forum) a couple of months ago. The french vtigerCRM site published it on their web and it is fairly documented on the vtigerCRM spanish site (which still isn't accessible from the vtiger.com site, Richie just ignores me :-) ). I also uploaded the code to the developers list.

If you need any help getting it working or finding it send me and email (along with the payment :-) ).

Regards, Joe
TSolucio

aissa · Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 396 Location: France

Hi team,
Joe, please continue to improve the oo merge code, i'm near to publish (under the gpl) the oo plugin (i just miss time).
Do you want to open a forge project ? If you do, i will publish the oo plugin sources in your oo forge project.

Galactic Dominator · Joined: 18 Oct 2006 Posts: 161

The intent I made that pledge for was a clickable, functional installer with at least minimal docs. Please find a way to post such information. Unfortunately, French and Spanish don't work for me, no hablo espanol.

grahama · Joined: 08 Oct 2005 Posts: 73

Hi - did this actually getdone and is it available for purchase if so?

joebordes · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:15 pm Post subject: Re: OpenOffice Mail Merge

Hi,

A long while back we added rtf merge capabilities to a 5.0.3 for one of our clients. This is the code I mention in this thread that I shared then. We have not used this code again for any other client. That client is still using it.

We can rescue this code and adapt it to your needs. If you are interested send me a message. I know Aissa has since laid off the vtigerCRM scene but he had it almost working so maybe you could contact him also as his approach was more OO oriented than mine.

Joe
TSolucio

carloz · Joined: 11 Sep 2007 Posts: 435 Location: Brescia, Italy

Hi all,

we ourselves are *very* interested in the possibility of using the Vtiger Merge function without having to depend on Internet Explorer and Microsoft Word.

I toyed with the code for a couple of days ...

I started from the code for 5.0.2 attached here
http://forums.vtiger.com/viewtopic.php?t=7223

I read Joe's post on the vtiger-dev mailing list (this one:
http://lists.vtigercrm.com/pipermail/vtigercrm-developers/2007-March/002242.html )

(I could not rescue the code he sent there - list archives scrub attachments)

I modified savewordtemplates.php and the Merge.php files - all queries for 5.0.2 miss the vtiger_ prefix for tables

The .rtf merge now is working on my test environment :-) a standard 5.0.3 on the server and Ubuntu + FF + OO on the client .

If we manage to get further - our aim is to bring it to our production environment - I'll keep you posted

Ciao
Carloz