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c# mail merge only showing date fields in merge
I am using C# with Visual Studio 2005 with Office 2003 mail merging data from
an SQL database. The merge works successfully using various templates and various SQL queries and creates the final merged document. However only fields which are datetime fields are outputted and text fields are left blank in the Word doc. The fields in the query do contain data and no errors are produced. Any ideas on what can be causing this? A small section of the merge code is shown below (if that helps) Cheers Chris ----------------------- wrdApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass(); wrdApp.Visible = true; oDataDoc = wrdApp.Documents.Add(ref oName, ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing); oDataDoc.Activate(); wrdMailMerge = oDataDoc.MailMerge; wrdMailMerge.HighlightMergeFields = true; oQuery = stat.Text; // stat field contains SQL query wrdMailMerge.OpenDataSource("", ref oFileFormat, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oTrue, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oConnection, ref oQuery, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oSubType); // i think the above line of code is causing the problem wrdMailMerge.SuppressBlankLines = true; wrdMailMerge.Destination = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdMailMergeDestinati on.wdSendToNewDocument; wrdMailMerge.Execute(ref oFalse); oDataDoc.Close(ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing); ------------------ |
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c# mail merge only showing date fields in merge
If it's a SQL Server database, then the problem is likely to be that you
have Unicode format fields in your database, and the OpenDataSource you are using is likely to cause Word to open a connection using ODBC. Either ODBC does not pass the Unicode data through or WOrd+ODBC doesn't. If that's the case, what you really need to do is to set up a .ODC or .UDL file that contains the connection infromation for your database and specify that in the Name parameter of the method call. If you can't do that, the only ways to live with this limitation are either to change the database field types to be non-unicode, or use a view (or other technique) and the CAST/CONVERT functions to convert to non-Unicode data. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "ChrisRS" wrote in message ... I am using C# with Visual Studio 2005 with Office 2003 mail merging data from an SQL database. The merge works successfully using various templates and various SQL queries and creates the final merged document. However only fields which are datetime fields are outputted and text fields are left blank in the Word doc. The fields in the query do contain data and no errors are produced. Any ideas on what can be causing this? A small section of the merge code is shown below (if that helps) Cheers Chris ----------------------- wrdApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass(); wrdApp.Visible = true; oDataDoc = wrdApp.Documents.Add(ref oName, ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing); oDataDoc.Activate(); wrdMailMerge = oDataDoc.MailMerge; wrdMailMerge.HighlightMergeFields = true; oQuery = stat.Text; // stat field contains SQL query wrdMailMerge.OpenDataSource("", ref oFileFormat, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oTrue, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oConnection, ref oQuery, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oSubType); // i think the above line of code is causing the problem wrdMailMerge.SuppressBlankLines = true; wrdMailMerge.Destination = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdMailMergeDestinati on.wdSendToNewDocument; wrdMailMerge.Execute(ref oFalse); oDataDoc.Close(ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing); ------------------ |
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c# mail merge only showing date fields in merge
Thanks for that.... I will look into it.
Cheers Chris "Peter Jamieson" wrote: If it's a SQL Server database, then the problem is likely to be that you have Unicode format fields in your database, and the OpenDataSource you are using is likely to cause Word to open a connection using ODBC. Either ODBC does not pass the Unicode data through or WOrd+ODBC doesn't. If that's the case, what you really need to do is to set up a .ODC or .UDL file that contains the connection infromation for your database and specify that in the Name parameter of the method call. If you can't do that, the only ways to live with this limitation are either to change the database field types to be non-unicode, or use a view (or other technique) and the CAST/CONVERT functions to convert to non-Unicode data. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "ChrisRS" wrote in message ... I am using C# with Visual Studio 2005 with Office 2003 mail merging data from an SQL database. The merge works successfully using various templates and various SQL queries and creates the final merged document. However only fields which are datetime fields are outputted and text fields are left blank in the Word doc. The fields in the query do contain data and no errors are produced. Any ideas on what can be causing this? A small section of the merge code is shown below (if that helps) Cheers Chris ----------------------- wrdApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass(); wrdApp.Visible = true; oDataDoc = wrdApp.Documents.Add(ref oName, ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing); oDataDoc.Activate(); wrdMailMerge = oDataDoc.MailMerge; wrdMailMerge.HighlightMergeFields = true; oQuery = stat.Text; // stat field contains SQL query wrdMailMerge.OpenDataSource("", ref oFileFormat, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oTrue, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oConnection, ref oQuery, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oSubType); // i think the above line of code is causing the problem wrdMailMerge.SuppressBlankLines = true; wrdMailMerge.Destination = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdMailMergeDestinati on.wdSendToNewDocument; wrdMailMerge.Execute(ref oFalse); oDataDoc.Close(ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing); ------------------ |
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c# mail merge only showing date fields in merge
oki....
I have created a UDL file that will connect to the server.... however I am unable to connect the UDL file to the C# code. The code i am using is :- .... Object oConnection = new OleDbConnection("File Name = c:\\test.udl"); .... .... wrdMailMerge.OpenDataSource("", ref oFileFormat, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oTrue, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oConnection, ref oQuery, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oSubType); .... And error is.... Type mismatch. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80020005 (DISP_E_TYPEMISMATCH)) I presume the mismatch is with the connection object but not sure were I am going wrong. Any help please? Many thanks Chris "ChrisRS" wrote: Thanks for that.... I will look into it. Cheers Chris "Peter Jamieson" wrote: If it's a SQL Server database, then the problem is likely to be that you have Unicode format fields in your database, and the OpenDataSource you are using is likely to cause Word to open a connection using ODBC. Either ODBC does not pass the Unicode data through or WOrd+ODBC doesn't. If that's the case, what you really need to do is to set up a .ODC or .UDL file that contains the connection infromation for your database and specify that in the Name parameter of the method call. If you can't do that, the only ways to live with this limitation are either to change the database field types to be non-unicode, or use a view (or other technique) and the CAST/CONVERT functions to convert to non-Unicode data. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "ChrisRS" wrote in message ... I am using C# with Visual Studio 2005 with Office 2003 mail merging data from an SQL database. The merge works successfully using various templates and various SQL queries and creates the final merged document. However only fields which are datetime fields are outputted and text fields are left blank in the Word doc. The fields in the query do contain data and no errors are produced. Any ideas on what can be causing this? A small section of the merge code is shown below (if that helps) Cheers Chris ----------------------- wrdApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass(); wrdApp.Visible = true; oDataDoc = wrdApp.Documents.Add(ref oName, ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing); oDataDoc.Activate(); wrdMailMerge = oDataDoc.MailMerge; wrdMailMerge.HighlightMergeFields = true; oQuery = stat.Text; // stat field contains SQL query wrdMailMerge.OpenDataSource("", ref oFileFormat, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oTrue, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oConnection, ref oQuery, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oSubType); // i think the above line of code is causing the problem wrdMailMerge.SuppressBlankLines = true; wrdMailMerge.Destination = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdMailMergeDestinati on.wdSendToNewDocument; wrdMailMerge.Execute(ref oFalse); oDataDoc.Close(ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing); ------------------ |
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c# mail merge only showing date fields in merge
Set the name parameter of the OpenDataSOurce to be the pathname of the
..odc/.udl, e.g. wrdMailMerge.OpenDataSource("c:\\test.udl", ref oFileFormat, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oTrue, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oConnection, ref oQuery, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oSubType); Typically you would not need to provide an Connection parameter (the info. is in the .udl) or any particular SubType (i.e. you can probably leave that as oMissing) but you will need a Query and you may find that you have to alias any table names it contains, even though it may not be syntactically necessary. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "ChrisRS" wrote in message ... oki.... I have created a UDL file that will connect to the server.... however I am unable to connect the UDL file to the C# code. The code i am using is :- ... Object oConnection = new OleDbConnection("File Name = c:\\test.udl"); ... ... wrdMailMerge.OpenDataSource("", ref oFileFormat, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oTrue, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oConnection, ref oQuery, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oSubType); ... And error is.... Type mismatch. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80020005 (DISP_E_TYPEMISMATCH)) I presume the mismatch is with the connection object but not sure were I am going wrong. Any help please? Many thanks Chris "ChrisRS" wrote: Thanks for that.... I will look into it. Cheers Chris "Peter Jamieson" wrote: If it's a SQL Server database, then the problem is likely to be that you have Unicode format fields in your database, and the OpenDataSource you are using is likely to cause Word to open a connection using ODBC. Either ODBC does not pass the Unicode data through or WOrd+ODBC doesn't. If that's the case, what you really need to do is to set up a .ODC or .UDL file that contains the connection infromation for your database and specify that in the Name parameter of the method call. If you can't do that, the only ways to live with this limitation are either to change the database field types to be non-unicode, or use a view (or other technique) and the CAST/CONVERT functions to convert to non-Unicode data. -- Peter Jamieson http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk "ChrisRS" wrote in message ... I am using C# with Visual Studio 2005 with Office 2003 mail merging data from an SQL database. The merge works successfully using various templates and various SQL queries and creates the final merged document. However only fields which are datetime fields are outputted and text fields are left blank in the Word doc. The fields in the query do contain data and no errors are produced. Any ideas on what can be causing this? A small section of the merge code is shown below (if that helps) Cheers Chris ----------------------- wrdApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass(); wrdApp.Visible = true; oDataDoc = wrdApp.Documents.Add(ref oName, ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing); oDataDoc.Activate(); wrdMailMerge = oDataDoc.MailMerge; wrdMailMerge.HighlightMergeFields = true; oQuery = stat.Text; // stat field contains SQL query wrdMailMerge.OpenDataSource("", ref oFileFormat, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oTrue, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oConnection, ref oQuery, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oSubType); // i think the above line of code is causing the problem wrdMailMerge.SuppressBlankLines = true; wrdMailMerge.Destination = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdMailMergeDestinati on.wdSendToNewDocument; wrdMailMerge.Execute(ref oFalse); oDataDoc.Close(ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing); ------------------ |
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Many thanks... it is all sorted
 "ChrisRS" wrote: I am using C# with Visual Studio 2005 with Office 2003 mail merging data from an SQL database. The merge works successfully using various templates and various SQL queries and creates the final merged document. However only fields which are datetime fields are outputted and text fields are left blank in the Word doc. The fields in the query do contain data and no errors are produced. Any ideas on what can be causing this? A small section of the merge code is shown below (if that helps) Cheers Chris ----------------------- wrdApp = new Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.ApplicationClass(); wrdApp.Visible = true; oDataDoc = wrdApp.Documents.Add(ref oName, ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing); oDataDoc.Activate(); wrdMailMerge = oDataDoc.MailMerge; wrdMailMerge.HighlightMergeFields = true; oQuery = stat.Text; // stat field contains SQL query wrdMailMerge.OpenDataSource("", ref oFileFormat, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oTrue, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oConnection, ref oQuery, ref oMissing, ref oMissing, ref oSubType); // i think the above line of code is causing the problem wrdMailMerge.SuppressBlankLines = true; wrdMailMerge.Destination = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdMailMergeDestinati on.wdSendToNewDocument; wrdMailMerge.Execute(ref oFalse); oDataDoc.Close(ref oFalse, ref oMissing, ref oMissing); ------------------ |
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