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aabrego
Mail Merge + Custom Objects
Hi there!
1) I´m wondering if there is a good guide or tutorial about Mail Merge and Custom Objects.
2) What about the "MS Office Add-in" or "MS Word Add-In ", I've read some posts about it but I can't find anywhere. How do I get it?.
3) I want to create custom Word documents that pull data from custom objects fields, using Salesforce's Mail Merge functionality. Does anyone have a working example to share?
Any succesful implementation outhere??
Greetings.... and happy new year!!!
Hi aabrego,
In order for you to mail merge a custom objective you have to....
1. have activites enabled so the custom object appears as a mail merge option in your word doc.
2. Your custom object's relationship to other objects is going to be important here.
Mail merge doesn't work on a one to many framework. It has to be a one to one relationship. So your custom object will have to have a one to one relationship in order for the object to be pulled into your doc. If your custom object has a one to many relationship, you'll have to do your mail merge from the custom object. Unfortunately, I don't know how to do that.
hope that helps.
Hi aabrego/Roma89,
I have a similar requirement. I don't think it's possible within SFDC at the moment. I've raised a similar question with a number of my suggested workarounds, but none are ideal. I think the fact that there are apps on the AppExchange which probably fit the requirements of 90% of users means there's a limited community looking for this functionality out of the box in SFDC.
My question:
http://community.salesforce.com/sforce/board/message?board.id=general_development&thread.id=40264
I've seen this suggested as an idea but it doesn't seem to have much support:
http://sites.force.com/ideaexchange/ideaView?c=09a30000000D9xt&id=08730000000Bp39&returnUrl=%2Fapex%2FideaList%3Fc%3D09a30000000D9xt%26category%3DNonprofit%26sort%3Dpopular
https://success.salesforce.com/ideaView?id=08730000000aADUAA2