Re: printing commercial letter with Report Builder

I am using both, Server and Client Application. It is pretty easy, you do that via ODBC.
But I saw today another solution for that with Crystal Reports, but you have to buy it.
So, MS-Word is a cheap and easy solution. If you need an example, please let me know, maybe I can prepare a one for you on the weekend (cause sitting in a boring hotel)

Oliver

ornella.monda_at_deagostini.it (Ornella Monda) wrote in message news:<fd119fe0.0302130332.12b07d1e_at_posting.google.com>...
> Thanks Oliver,
> the data I retrieve are on a Oracle DB and the letter should be built
> in a Forms/Reports server application.
> Where are you extracting data from? DB on your PC or DB on a server?
>
> oliver_at_demus-online.de (Oliver Demus) wrote in message news:<62e59750.0302120627.5e1f1bbe_at_posting.google.com>...
> > Hi,
> > I am using Microsoft Word for those thing (Serial-Letter-Function).
> > That works fine, and you print letter for letter (from the first to
> > the last page). Maybe you have to implement a macro for that.
> >
> > Oliver
> >
> > ornella.monda_at_deagostini.it (Ornella Monda) wrote in message news:<fd119fe0.0302110724.6f7a0658_at_posting.google.com>...
> > > I need to build a report that compose a commercial letter with fixed
> > > texts and data from database query, followed by a module also
> > > containing fixed texts and data from database query, to be filled in
> > > and then send back by our customers.
> > > The data composing the first page are contained in a repetitive frame.
> > > The data composing the module of the last page, are also contained in
> > > a repetitive frame.
> > > Both frames are on an other frame containing the logo and the name of
> > > our society.
> > > The problem we have is that when we send the report to the printer, it
> > > prints all the first pages and then all the second pages and it's a
> > > big problem to put them toghether in the right way.
> > >
> > > How can I avoid this and obtain the print of the complete letter one
> > > after the other.
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot for help
Received on Fri Feb 14 2003 - 15:00:08 CET