martedì, giugno 26, 2007

Simple Merge with Gammadyne

It’s fairly easy to achieve mail merge functionality in Gammadyne.

The first step is to create a recipient file that contains additional parameters, separated by commas (or tabs).  The first line of the file/list must contain the name of each column.

To create my test example, I first created a simple list in Excel. Next, I saved it as a comma delimited list.

ID,FirstName,LastName,Extension,Department,EmployeeNo,Birthday,Anniversary,Email

15,Mr.,Entropy,100,Multimedia,500,7/13/2000,3/20/2006,mr.e.n.t.r.o.p.y@hotmail.com

16,Slee,Stak,1289,T.V.,293,12/25/2000,9/16/2002,mr.entropy@lycos.com

While on the Recipients tab, select the “Simple-Merge” checkbox and enter the name of the email address column.

Now we can access the merge names that we just created by enclosing them within double brackets.

Hi [[FirstName]] [[LastName]],

This is an exciting test of Gammadyne's merge possibilities. For example:

Your birthday is: [[Birthday]]

And it parses through the list.