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Creating RTF file to be merged with ColdFusion data??
I'm trying to create a RTF document on the fly merging it with
ColdFusion data pulled from one of my databases, that will in turn be emailed out to customers as a DOC file. Can anyone tell me how I can define the RTF/Doc file to set up data fields that I will then replace with my ColdFusion variables when needed? Thanks, Steve |
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Not sure, but I think it depends on how exactly you are thinking of filling
in those variables. If you want to end up with a .doc you're probably going to have to open your .rtf with Word (unless you have a 3rd party method for that) and there are various ways you could insert the values for "fields" . If you want to put values in by changing the RTF, then open the RTF in Word, there are a couple of ways I can think of to do that. But are these text values, or might they be pictures? For example, in the RTF representation of a Word document, for many field types you have both a field defintion and a field result. If you can find a way to search the plain text RTF file and replace each RTF field result value with the appropriate text, you will probably have what you need. Or maybe you could define a whole bunch of Custom Document Properties or WOrd Document Variables, then either replace the relevant text in the RTF file with the values you need, or open the document in Word and use VBA or some such to set the document properties or variables? Peter Jamieson "Steve Grosz" wrote in message ... I'm trying to create a RTF document on the fly merging it with ColdFusion data pulled from one of my databases, that will in turn be emailed out to customers as a DOC file. Can anyone tell me how I can define the RTF/Doc file to set up data fields that I will then replace with my ColdFusion variables when needed? Thanks, Steve |
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