Includetext and wildcards

[Fev]

Hi
Is it possible to use wildcards in the includetext field? I have a
merge document that uses a number of include text fields to bring in
specified clauses. The user may or may not then edit these clauses.
The resulting merged document (each merge only comprises 1 record) is
named by a LinkID gained from the datasource concatenated with a
number of other codes relating to workflow ID's, Physical location
etc. Each filename will be unique, based on the LinkID In a second
merge document which may be run days later, a copy of the edited
specified clauses also needs to be included in this (second merge)
document. Is there a way to do this without the user having to
specify the file to be used - we are trying to remove user
intervention/user error in this process.
Thanks
Heather

 

[macropod]

Hi Heather,

The file to be used must be specified in the INCLUDETEXT field. I can't see from your problem description how the name of the source
file is determined.

 

[Fev]

Hi Heather,

The file to be used must be specified in theINCLUDETEXTfield. I can't seefrom your problem description how the name of the source
file is determined.

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Cheers
macropod
[MVP - Microsoft Word]

Hi
Is it possible to use wildcards in theincludetextfield?  I have a
merge document that uses a number of include text fields to bring in
specified clauses.  The user may or may not then edit these clauses.
The resulting merged document (each merge only comprises 1 record) is
named by a LinkID gained from the datasource concatenated with a
number of other codes relating to workflow ID's, Physical location
etc.  Each filename will be unique, based on the LinkID  In a second
merge document which may be run days later, a copy of the edited
specified clauses also needs to be included in this (second merge)
document.  Is there a way to do this without the user having to
specify the file to be used - we are trying to remove user
intervention/user error in this process.
Thanks
Heather- Hide quoted text -

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In the data source (is a csv export from SQL and has some 3000 fields,
but only 1 record and is named automatically in the export process),
contains a field called LinkID which provides at least the first 3
characters of the filename (this will always be unique). The other
characters are determined by various other influences, but are not
found in the datasource. As the 2 merges are done at different times,
but use the same datasource, the LinkID appeared to be the best route
to be able to find the resultant 1st merged document. I cannot store
this data in the 2nd merge document as merges relating to other
agreements will be conducted by multiple users throughout each day,
using the 2nd merge document.
Thanks
Heather