I know this is probably a silly question, but I have to get it out of the way.
Are you certain you are spelling the element name correctly?

BOBSCOTT wrote on Jul 19^th, 2007 at 9:53pm:

That is simply doing the exact same thing as pressing the F5 key. It's doesn't place the value in the Windows clipboard. Try it while the Name field in Property Editor is empty (and an LE is selected), and you will see that it fills in with the name of the LE.

To copy the value, you need to use Ctrl-C, or select Edit Long Value, then use the right-click Copy selection from that editor window.

It would be nice, though, if that little popup menu had the normal Cut, Copy, Paste... type choices available at the Property Editor level, rather than only in the popup editor window.

BOBSCOTT wrote on Jul 20^th, 2007 at 2:36pm:


Is there one that always fails that we can try/look at?

Thanks Robert, I'll have a look at it as soon as possible.

-Ray

Hello!

I use [[AddressBlock]] tag in the merge doc in place of individual merge fields
to handles a blank-linesin-the-address-block problem.  And
Replace [[theDate]] merge tag with current formal date  [[Datum]] merge tag
also inserts the current date in the doc.

Since the original RFT-File after the start of the MergeFilePrint is changed. I try to do a copy from the original before the start from it over Shell. Unfortunately, the Shell runs - command not correct. I make one for mistake here surely.


Thanks for the help.

Dr. Belhareth


hier is Batch file:
c:
cd\
C:\sesame2\docs\rft
copy %1  %2
exit



MergePrintFile Code:

ar vTypeFiles as String      // Files of specified type (file extension)
var vSelectedFile as String // Selected file
var n as Int                       // Loop counter
var vDoc as String
var vAddressBlock as String
var vOutputAddressBlock as String
var vResult as String
var vDatei as String
var vDateiKopie as String


PopupSelectPosition(4, @XPos(ThisElement),@YPos(ThisElement))
vPath = "C:\Sesame2\DOCS\RFT"

vType = @Popupmenu(".txt;.doc;.pdf;.htm;.rtf","SELECT FILE")

vAllFiles = @LocalListDirectory(vPath)

For n = 1 to @CountStringArray(vAllFiles)
If @Right(@AccessStringArray(vAllFiles, n), 4) = vType
Then
vTypeFiles = @AppendStringArray(vTypeFiles,@AccessStringArray(vAllFiles, n) )
Next

vTypeFiles = @SortStringArray(vTypeFiles, 0)
vSelectedFile = @PopupChoiceList(vTypeFiles, vPath + "\*" + vType)
vDatei = vPath + "\" + vSelectedFile
@Msgbox("Selected file:","",vDatei)
PopupSelectPosition(0, 0, 0)

vDateiKopie =  vPath + "\2" + vSelectedFile

(??)  n = @AsynchShell("C:\sesame2\copy.bat " + vDatei + " " + vDateiKopie)

// This program uses an [[AddressBlock]] tag in the merge doc
// Read in the rtf merge doc
vDoc = @Insert(vDateiKopie)

// Compile the address block
vAddressBlock = Vorname + " " + NachName + @NL() + Firma +@NL() + Add1 + @NL() + Add2 + @NL() + Plz + ", " +  Ort

// Replace [[theDate]] merge tag with current formal date
vDoc = @Replace(vDoc, "[[Datum]]",@Dom(@ServerDate()) + "." + @Month$(@ServerDate()) + "."+ @Year(@ServerDate()) )

// Collapse any blank lines in address block
vAddressBlock = @Replace(vAddressBlock, @NL() + @NL(),@NL())

// Loop thru the address block and precede each remaining
// line with the rtf "\par" tag for a new paragraph

SetStringArraySeparator(@NL())
For n = 1 to @CountStringArray(vAddressBlock)
vOutputAddressBlock += "\par " + @AccessStringArray(vAddressBlock, n) + @NL()
Next

// Replace the merge doc tag with the reconstituted address block
vDoc = @Replace(vDoc, "[[AddressBlock]]", vOutputAddressBlock)

// vresult = "Myresult"
If FileExists("C:\Sesame2\Myresult.rtf")  then  FileDelete("C:\Sesame2\Myresult.rtf")

// Write output file
FileOverwrite(vDateiKopie, vDoc)

     MergeFilePrint(vDateiKopieNeu, "rtf", "", "", "", "Myresult", 0)
           n = @AsynchShell("Myresult.rtf")

Hello Carl!
I can ´t  "match" a merge field name with a variable.
MergeFilePrint hier  does not work:

MergeFilePrint(vDatei, "rtf", "", "", "AddressBlock=vOutputAddressBlock", "Myresult", 0)

Thanks.

Dr. Belhareth

Hello Carl!
Thanks for the support.
Your proposal runs good, but unfortunately I get shut only the first line of the AddressBlocks !

My code :

/ / Compile the address blocks
vAddressBlock = first name" + " + last name + @NL() + company + @NL() + Add1 + @NL() + Add2 + @NL() + country" + " + Plz" + " + place
/ / Collapse any brightly lines in address blocks
vAddressBlock = @Replace (vAddressBlock, @NL() + @NL(), @NL() )

/ / Loop thru the blocks address and precede each remaining
// line with the rtf "\par" tag to signify new paragraph
SetStringArraySeparator(@NL())
For n = 1 to @CountStringArray(vAddressBlock)
vOutputAddressBlock += "\par " + @AccessStringArray(vAddressBlock, n) + @NL()
Next

If FileExists("C:\Sesame2\Myresult.rtf") then  FileDelete("C:\Sesame2\Myresult.rtf")

vMatches = "AddressBlock=" + vOutputAddressBlock
  MergeFilePrint(vDatei, "rtf", "", "", vMatches,"Myresult", 0)
           n = @AsynchShell("Myresult.rtf")


Thanks.
Dr. Belhareth