SynoGenerateDoc for Sugar

Normal Merge Works fine on 7.1, but not the List merge (One to many fields)

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   synolia Provider Affiliate

   6 years ago

   Hello @vidarlundle, thanks for your feedback!
   Can we help you? What do you call the "list merge"? Do you try to use example files provide in the section "Documentation"?
   Regards,

Basically this product requires that you do many work arounds in Word to make it work - like disabling spelling control. I have not successfully created a template yet in Word 2010. So from an end user perspective - the product does not fulfil its promise and does not work very well. It certainly did not work out of the box.

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   synolia Provider Affiliate

   5 years ago

   Hello VisualReporting, thank you for your feedback. It is true that the learning curve is a little tough, once you get through it, we know for sure that you're going to appreciate all the potential.

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     VisualReporting Verified Purchase

     5 years ago

     I don't agree on that - I cannot possibly ever put a non technical user to do templates. I lot of brain power has to go into that. It should be possible to solve this using a more intelligent search and replace for the tags - not assume the user has to do all kinds of very strange actions - including disabling one of the most used functions in a Word processing tool - spell control.

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     synolia Provider Affiliate

     5 years ago

     Hello VisualReporting,
     We value users' opinion and you're right, we tried several engine to do this and the most powerful we found is this one but, yet, not the most simple.
     We usually recommend templates to be created by a small set of users as it is a little tricky. Concerning the spell control the easiest way is to deactivate it, but you can also use a copy paste of the tag from a pure text. The purpose is to ensure that word corrector doesn't mangle the special characters when you type the tags.

Works on 6.5.11 & 6.5.12. Have an error on document merge into word, but you can click through it to get the document. Probably a microsoft issue. Love the module, works great. took a while to figure some things out with the fields - documentation is a little thin, but once you figure out their field templates and merge them the first time to get your list of fields, its flawless - even with custom fields!