How to create customer, mail-merge like Documents

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Phil posted over 15 years ago

Hi All,

There is a quick sale in this one if you can help me out. I have Winform project that I need to distribute multiple documents which essentially are a contract which we merge customer details into at run time. Just name, address, contact details. We don't need to need the end users to edit or preview the document, just print it. The document may change from time to time so we would like to be able to download it. The document has text and boxes in which a customer needs to sign.

I am not set on a particular document type to distribute DOC, RTF, XML as long as fairly easy to construct a new document going forward.

Hopefully it there is an easy way to do this as I would like to use some of the other IG components and I just need an reason to make the investment.

Thanks

Phil

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Offline Mike Saltzman posted over 15 years ago in reply to Phil

Hi Phil,

No, there's no UI. But you can use the UltraGridDocumentExport to export an UltraWinGrid control to a PDF document and it will by essentially WYSIWYG.
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Phil posted over 15 years ago in reply to Phil

Hi,

Is there a designer or a more complete RTF import available to speed up creating of a report? So that you don't have to create everything from scratch?

Thanks

Phil
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Phil posted over 15 years ago

Thanks that's great.

I am just quickly looking through the Document API. Where is the load and save document? What file types can I load and save?

Cheers

Phil
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Tom Puglisi posted over 15 years ago

Hi Phil,

This sounds like a good opportunity for you to check out our Document Engine library. You can create PDF or XPS document files. To learn about the Document Engine you should read the topics located here:

http://ko.infragistics.com/scripts/redirects.aspx?ID=NANETCLR20HELP&target=DocumentEngine_Writing_Reports.html

Now I can see you storing your customer info in the WinGrid. Just think, you design a data model that stores your basic customer info and then have other tables that contain references to the customers and their contracts. Your data model can be displayed with all entities displayed simultaneously with the hierarchical capabilities of WinGrid.

Here is where you can learn more about WinGrid:

http://ko.infragistics.com/scripts/redirects.aspx?ID=NANETCLR20HELP&target=WinGrid_About_WinGrid.html

and

http://ko.infragistics.com/scripts/redirects.aspx?ID=NANETCLR20HELP&target=WinGrid_Bind_WinGrid_to_a_Hierarchical_Data_Source_CLR2.html

Of course, that is only the beginning. Imagine how many other nice features you can add to your application through our extensive toolset once you get it going!
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