Comparison Chart for TRichView Mail Merging Demos
Demo |
Field code |
Field code is stored in... |
Field value |
Font for displaying field values is defined in... |
Requires template reloading before applying new field values |
Notes |
TRichView\Demos\...\MailMerge |
text item of reserved style |
item's tag |
one line of text |
application (using a reserved text style) |
No |
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TRichView\Demos\...\MailMerge2 |
text item of reserved style |
item text (visible) |
any RVF document |
field value itself |
Yes |
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text item of reserved style |
item tag |
multiline text |
application (using a reserved text style) |
Yes |
Can be easily modified to use arbitrary text styles (to recognize fields by tags, to use text style in document for values) |
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TRichView\Demos\...\MailMerge-LabelItems\ |
label item |
item tag |
one line of text (cannot be wrapped) |
document template |
No |
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text item (recognized by protection and tag) |
item tag |
one line of text |
document template |
No |
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text inside {} |
text inside {} |
one line of text |
document template |
Yes |
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text inside {} |
text inside {} |
multiline text |
document template |
Yes |
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text after $ |
text after $ |
multiline text |
document template |
Yes |
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text inside {} |
text inside {} |
multiline text or picture or table |
document template (for text), application (for text in table) |
Yes |
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arbitrary document fragment |
items tags |
any RVF document, or one line of text |
field value (for RVF fields), template (for text fields) |
No |
For values of text fields, color is taken from adjacent text (or black-on-white, if no adjacent text) |
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text inside {} |
text inside {} |
multiline text or picture |
template |
Yes |
Document tables can be linked to DB tables, rows are repeated for records. Nested tables show master-detail relationship. |
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text inside {} |
text inside {} |
multiline text |
template, but text color for some fields can be defined by the application |
Yes |
More about the demos: https://www.trichview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8