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Excuse my lack of knowledge but its all new to me

Thanks again

Gerrib

Details of systems :
SQL Server 2005

Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express 9.00.2047.00
Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0.50727.1873
Operating System 5.1.2600

Ultimately I want to e-merge letters to customers containing all their invoice details in one email.

My datasource is coming from an oracle database. I extract the details using SQL for selected customers and dates.

The datasource contains one record per customer invoice which looks like my original example. But using this the result would be that a customer could get multiple emails on each run – which would kind of upset them

I investiagted word and there is the facility to write code in the document to handle multiple records per customer inout in the datasource but this creates a directory which can then be printed but not emailed !!!!

So… I thought perhaps I shoudl try and get my datasource to contain the multiple details. My background is RPG and this could be done easily by creating an array but I cannot do the same in SQL so that is why I came to this forum.

I just wanted help to complete the task either using SQL to create a datasource which could be used OR any other method using the input I have to achieve the output required ie emailed letter with all invoice details per customer

I hope this makes sense

Regards

On the other hand, Washkuhnw, you can certainly do what Gerrib asked in the original question with Sql Server, but a function would be necessary for that.

So I’ll try to understand again…in word you have a record that holds all the details for this customer, but you can’t email it. So you want to go back into SQL and combine all the details for the customer, like I addressed earlier?

Couldn’t you just host the word file, or find some other way to deliver it? It seems like much less work for a solution that you already have complete.

If I’m not understanding again, please correct me. There seems to be a lot of miscommunication happening right now.

What I really want to do is export these details and use them for emerging in Word.

It appears that in Word one can create a letter (directory) per customer which includes details contained in multiple records for this customer in the datasource. Sadly this cannot be then be emailed so I was trying to create a datasource which holds all the details in one record.