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MailMerge Workbench merges Microsoft Word 6.0 (or higher) word processing documents with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne system records to automatically print business documents, such as form letters. Some application suites, such as Human Resource Management, use these documents within their normal workflow process. See your application guides to determine which applications use mail-merge documents. In these applications, the system automatically prints the mail-merge documents as part of the workflow process, and no user intervention is needed.
You can use the Maintain MailMerge Documents application to add or change text in the business documents included with JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software to create new documents and to delete documents.
JD Edwards EnterpriseOne software enables you to create HTML versions of mail-merge documents to send to Web client users. After you add text and fields to the mail-merge document, you can copy it to an HTML version so that you can send mail-merge letters to Web client users. When a mail-merge letter is generated, the system displays the letter in the Web Mail Merge program (P980040).
This section provides an overview of data set and discusses how to create a data set and how to attach templates to the data set.
Understanding Data Sets
A data set is the way you define the data structure that passes data to the API. After you define the data set, you will attach to it a simple template or a composite template. A simple template is a single template that you attach to a data set. A composite template is a collection of simple templates. Use only templates in the .rtf format.
After you have created a data set, you must attach either a simple template, or a composite template.