I don't know how to start this project and I am looking for advice. I have 5 different MS Word documents that are each 15 to 20 pages long. These documents have 25 to 30 pieces of data that need to be merged into them from a record in an A5 data table. The MS Word documents are already setup as "mail merge" documents to pick up data from an Excel spreadsheet. They work great when used within MS Word. Currently we are exporting data from and A5 desktop application, merging into the MS Word documents and printing. This works great. One extra piece of information is that these "long" documents can change periodically and it is very easy for a "non-A5 programmer" to edit the documents and they will still work with the A5 export. This gives us some nice flexibility since we have many users that are proficient at MS Word.
We want to move this whole operation to our A5 web application. We have a great web app in production and we want to be able to generate these 5 documents from a dialogue component in the web app. When a user prints they are only printing documents for ONE record in one A5 table. So we want to merge fields from one record of data into one document (not all 5 documents at once). One extra piece of information is that we could also convert these documents to PDF forms that have merge fields in them if using PDF's is a better option than Word docs.
I hope this is a good explanation of what we want to accomplish. The key is that we want to try to avoid creating A5 reports to do this job. With the reason being that we want to be able to use other non-A5 programmers in our organization to maintain these documents as needed.
Thank you in advance for your help and suggestions,
CPGood
We want to move this whole operation to our A5 web application. We have a great web app in production and we want to be able to generate these 5 documents from a dialogue component in the web app. When a user prints they are only printing documents for ONE record in one A5 table. So we want to merge fields from one record of data into one document (not all 5 documents at once). One extra piece of information is that we could also convert these documents to PDF forms that have merge fields in them if using PDF's is a better option than Word docs.
I hope this is a good explanation of what we want to accomplish. The key is that we want to try to avoid creating A5 reports to do this job. With the reason being that we want to be able to use other non-A5 programmers in our organization to maintain these documents as needed.
Thank you in advance for your help and suggestions,
CPGood
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