OpenOffice Document Merge available

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• Altstatten

  January 2009 Vote Up0Vote Down

  okay, boys! all i need now is some simple instructions on how to "apply the patch" without upsetting some small 3rd world government in the process. (it would happen to me.....)
  
  what do i do with this file? how do i do it is what i need. be specific; i'm in sales. thanks for your work on this project everybody.
  
  oh, anyone know if the whole "open office merge" topic is addressed/fixed i the upcoming 5.1??
• Altstatten

  January 2009 Vote Up0Vote Down

  okay, boys! all i need now is some simple instructions on how to "apply the patch" without upsetting some small 3rd world government in the process. (it would happen to me.....)
  
  what do i do with this file? how do i do it is what i need. be specific; i'm in sales. thanks for your work on this project everybody.
  
  oh, anyone know if the whole "open office merge" topic is addressed/fixed in the upcoming 5.1??
• Altstatten

  January 2009 Vote Up0Vote Down

  please excuse the double post. i have yet to find the edit button.
• Altstatten

  February 2009 Vote Up0Vote Down

  do we have an estimated completion date for that mentioned release??
• valmir

  February 2009 Vote Up0Vote Down

  hi carlos,
  
  
  what the problem with the link? i was unable to download the archive.
  
  regards
• Altstatten

  February 2009 Vote Up0Vote Down

  "carloz&quot wrote:

  download it and unpack it from your root vtiger directory

  
  a bit more tutorial, please, for those of us who don't know exactly what the implied steps are here. please.
  

  "carloz&quot wrote:

  update from the previous .diff released here: we fixed the mass merge issue <!-- s:-) --><img src="{smilies_path}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":-)" title="smile" /><!-- s:-) -->

  
  explicit detail needed here on the proper way to .diff somebody, what software is needed, is this telling me i have to diff the first file, then diff this one, or ???
  
  i'm in sales, people, i'm not a programmer!!
• valmir

  February 2009 Vote Up0Vote Down

  hi carloz,
  
  
  thank you very much by your attention and by excellent work of your team. i received the zip file and maked the test, initially i received a error mensage: "error : pclzip_err_read_open_fail (-2) : unable to open temporary file '/tmp/pclzip-49924c3f05814.tmp' in binary write mode", but i created a temp directory (c:/temp/), edit the pclzip.lib.php and remove the comments in the line 64 and insert comment in the line 63. the add-on run fine now. congratulations!
  
  
  best regards,
• CPP

  February 2009 Vote Up0Vote Down

  i would like to use this feature but have no idea how to make it work. i've downloaded & extracted the zip file. i copied the contents into the modules directory. now what?
  
  thanks in advance!
• fraosoft

  February 2009 Vote Up0Vote Down

  hi carloz,
  
  seem very interesting your application.
  i have a question
  when i select several records, is it possible to have only one document openoffice (rather than one openoffice document for each record selected)? (for example when i want to print labels)
  
  
  thanks for your anwser
  
  loïc
• joebordes

  February 2009 Vote Up0Vote Down

  hi,
  
  carlo, with your permission i'll answer this one as i have been asked this many times already.
  
  no you can't. the way the vtiger crm merge module is designed it will generate one document per entity selected. the openoffice merge extension builds upon the vtiger functionality and, thus inherits it's philosophy.
  
  i had a look at getting it working for a potential client and found that it was rather difficult. your easiest solution is to create your labels directly against the mysql database. both openoffice and microsoftoffice can plug into the database, and both products do a very good job at generating the labels. it isn't worth the trouble to enhance this extension any more than it already is (at least in this sense).
  
  hope that answered your doubts.
  
  regards, joe
  tsolucio