There is no automatic route I know of for you to take unless you are willing
to change your merge files into templates and create new documents based on
the templates. Once such a new document is created from the template, with
your updated date in it, you can merge it.
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"Karen Hart" wrote in message
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Thank you again Charles, but since I explained that this is not the route
we want to take for a multitude of reasons, that are too numerous to go
into at this time, are you suggesting that there is NO mergedate solution
if the files remain merge files?
Karen

"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
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Template and merge form are not mutually exclusive types. Save your merge
forms as templates, in an appropriate Workgroup templates folder. When
you want to do a merge, create a new document based on the template (File
New) and merge to it. Links to your database established in the
template will be maintained.
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"Karen Hart" wrote in message
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Thank you Charles, but...Since we already have tons of documents set up
as merge files, heavily coded with all kinds of data fields, if
statements, etc., how can we accomplish this date function without going
your suggested route? We would like to keep all these docs as merge
forms rather than changing them all over to templates.


"Charles Kenyon" wrote in
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Have your original merge form be a template. Create a new merge form
from it using FileNew for each merge.
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"Karen Hart" wrote in message
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Graham,
I tried that and am getting a strange result. The resulting merged
document is displaying the date the original merge form was
created...not the date the original merge form is being merged. Does
that make sense? In other words, I changed the form document on Jan.
14 and coded the date to be CREATEDATE. Now, every time the form is
merged, the resulting date displayed is Jan. 14. What am I doing
wrong?
Thank you.
Karen


"Graham Mayor" wrote in message
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Use a CREATEDATE field for the date and merge to a new document. The
new
document will always show the date of the merge.

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Karen Hart wrote:
How do I create a form file that upon merging inserts the current
date of the merge, then does not update after that point? In other
words, after the merge is complete, the resulting document's date
field should be automatically unlinked. I do not want to teach the
user to unlink the field with Ctrl-Shift-F9, because there are
several of these date codes throughout the form file, inlcuding
headers and footers, and also I don't want to risk that the user
forgets to unlink the date field.

Thank you in advance.
Karen