What exactly you mean by form letters?
Do you even need a web app? If so, look into the Office Automation Tools.
Jeff
There are about a 12 differant forms that are used to notify clients of meetings or upcomming actions and a variety of other things. The only changeing in the forms is the names dates and addresses. Where would I look for the office automation info. Alot of this is new to me. Thanks.
Are these viewed via the web?
I think we're all a little confused as to what the connection is to ASP.NET with mail-merge documents.
I need for these forms to be viewed over the office network web site. They won't be view by the WWW. Just in the local office. These are not really mail merger docs.The names addresses etc will need to be able to be inbeded in the documents. I guess another way of saying this is like this. I have a button set up that allows me to select which form I want to see and print if needed. I need to be able to bring this from up with the current clients name, address etc being put into the form where needed. Does this help? I appreciate any help/advice. Thanks
Ok... couple things as I see it.
1) how to get the docs to show.
2) how to get the docs to merge the client info into it.
3) how to print.
Well, the 3rd is right out without a component. window.print() is about the best you can do for accessing the clients printer from the IIS server.
Lets back up though. The docs can be anywhere that the IIS box can get to them, no biggie.
Simply supply a list that refers to this location.
As for pulling the client's info into the doc, you got two options. Try to manually do this from asp.net or build your docs/templates to retrieve from a db, then you just need to pass the clientID (or whatever identifier).
The whole scenario really sounds like an ideal candiate for a reporting tool or some type of PDF tool ideally.
Take a look at:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/d2tx7z6d.aspx
Jeff
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