Sean Gough
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Sean Gough
asked on 14 Feb 2008, 11:12 PM
I want to write a small batch utility (C# or VB.NET) that will query a database, find X number of records that match my criteria and then merge them into letters (based on various templates) that can be printed and mailed. Ideally I can save as a single print a control sheet too (i.e. one line per page for spot check information) but individual PDFs would be acceptable too.
Is it possible to use Telerik Reporting as a mail merge tool like this?
Also, does TR support bar codes? (for imaging)
Is it possible to use Telerik Reporting as a mail merge tool like this?
Also, does TR support bar codes? (for imaging)
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Hi Sean Gough,
I do believe that Telerik Reporting can do the job for you. There are significant differences between MS Word and Telerik Reporting (for example in MS Word you can format a part of the text while in Telerik Reporting you style the report items and if this is a TextBox item the style is applied to the whole text it displays) that you should have in mind while creating your reports (the templates for the letters).
To get a better overview of what Telerik Reporting can do we encourage you to play with the accompanying samples (in both C# and VB.NET) and give it a try.
Regarding the bar codes - we still lack this functionality out of the box; anyway it is in our TODO list and I hope we will have the time and resource to work on it soon. However, some of our existing customers have successfully displayed bar codes on their reports by using a special bar code font and the TextBox report item.
Sincerely yours,
Svetoslav
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I do believe that Telerik Reporting can do the job for you. There are significant differences between MS Word and Telerik Reporting (for example in MS Word you can format a part of the text while in Telerik Reporting you style the report items and if this is a TextBox item the style is applied to the whole text it displays) that you should have in mind while creating your reports (the templates for the letters).
To get a better overview of what Telerik Reporting can do we encourage you to play with the accompanying samples (in both C# and VB.NET) and give it a try.
Regarding the bar codes - we still lack this functionality out of the box; anyway it is in our TODO list and I hope we will have the time and resource to work on it soon. However, some of our existing customers have successfully displayed bar codes on their reports by using a special bar code font and the TextBox report item.
Sincerely yours,
Svetoslav
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Martin Beeby
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answered on 15 Feb 2008, 09:25 AM
Just so you’re not hunting for too long. If you want to concatenate text and fields in a text box then you need to do the following in the value field:
= "Dear " + Fields.Fname + " " + Fields.Lname + " welcome to the club"
Ensuring you use + rather than &. Since & is not recognised.
Regarding barcodes. You could probably use a third party tool and create a bracode image (there are open source ones out their) then create a function that reurns an image and just call this image on the databind event of a picture box.