Mail Merge Example

[homer]

Hi.  I am looking for an example that would allow me to programatially perform a mail merge and display the merged output in the RadRichTextBox.  The merge template was created in the RadRichTextEditor and all the data is available for the datasource. Is this possible to do ?  I am currently using the Rad Controls for Silverlight 4 but will soon be upgrading to the version for Silverlight 5.

Thanks a lot.

[Iva Toteva]

Hi O'Neill,

There is no difference between the way mail merge works in Silverlight 4 and Silverlight 5. With both versions, you can perform programmatic mail merge and show the resulting document in RadRichTextBox in the following way:

this.editor.Document = document.MailMerge();

The prerequisites is that the mail-merge document used as template is contained in the "document" variable (it can also be the document in the editor, i.e. this.editor.Document) and that the mail merge data source of document is set.

I hope this helps.

All the best,
Iva Toteva
the Telerik team

[homer]

Thanks.  The above example worked great.  I am attempting to make a mailing label screen.  I tried to test a merge with multiple data records and the merge produced a new label per record but displayed the same data in each record.  What did I miss that would allow the merge to itterate the dataset I am passing ?

As well, is it possible to set up a table or grid or something that would create two columns on the page and multiple rows to deliniate and contain each label so that there are lines to use to cut the lables out when they are printed ?

Thanks for your help.
d

[Boby]

Hello D,
MailMerge method produce document containing documents with merge fields replaced with corresponding data source items.
Please refer to this forum thread for more information on how to create custom master-details mail merge fields.

Regards,
Boby
the Telerik team