Insert new mail merge fields using sablon

[coezbek]

Is there a way to let Sablon insert mail merge fields into the word template?

This would be helpful to build the template in the first place.

I imagine the following workflow:

• Build context object in Ruby
• Create the template with a merge field called something like allFields
• Run Sablon once to have it generate new merge fields for the whole context and insert them in the position of allFields.

[stadelmanma]

Hey @coezbek the word templates are finicky at times since docx files aren’t really designed in a friendly way to interact with outside of MS word itself.

That being said I’m not quite sure I understand. Are you meaning to insert the all the fields in the doc so that one could copy and paste them around?

[coezbek]

Yes, I meant to insert all entries from the context as fields into an intermediate template to then move them around to produce a final template.

On Thu, 30 Sep 2021, 17:04 Matthew Stadelman, @.***> wrote:

Hey @coezbek https://github.com/coezbek the word templates are finicky at times since docx files aren’t really designed in a friendly way to interact with outside of MS word itself.

That being said I’m not quite sure I understand. Are you meaning to insert the all the fields in the doc so that one could copy and paste them around?

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