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Mail Merge Mass Mailings in IBM Lotus Notes Domino with Zephyr
02/08/2010 12:15:00 PM by Chris Toohey
I was contacted recently by a reader of this site asking if there was a product or utility that would allow them to create a rich text mass mailer, complete with file attachments, and allow for Dear <FirstName> Microsoft Word-like Mail Merge functionality from data in a Lotus Notes application. As luck would have it, I had Zephyr, my Configuration-based Rich Text Mail Merge and Emailing Utility!
So I thought I would create a simple screencast showing how you can - with a simple LotusScript Agent - create a configurable Mass Mailing engine from your Lotus Notes Client Personal Address Book.
As for the LotusScript Agent to add to your Personal Address Book, here's a little something I put together (featured in the video):
Sub Initialize()
Dim s As New NotesSession
Dim db As NotesDatabase
Dim col As NotesDocumentCollection
Dim doc As NotesDocument
Dim zdb As NotesDatabase
Dim jdoc As NotesDocument
Dim counter As Long
Set db = s.Currentdatabase
Set col = db.Unprocesseddocuments
Set zdb = s.Getdatabase("", "zephyr.nsf", false)
If Not(zdb.Isopen) Then
MsgBox "Unable to open Zephyr!"
Exit Sub
End If
If (col.Count = 0) Then
MsgBox "You need to select at least one document to continue!"
Exit Sub
End If
Set doc = col.Getfirstdocument()
Do Until(doc Is Nothing)
counter = counter + 1
Print |Processing | & CStr(counter) & | of | & CStr(col.Count)
Set jdoc = zdb.Createdocument()
Call doc.Copyallitems(jdoc, true)
Call jdoc.Replaceitemvalue("form", "jobdocument")
Call jdoc.Replaceitemvalue("form_original", doc.Getitemvalue("form"))
Call jdoc.Save(True, False, True)
Set doc = col.Getnextdocument(doc)
Loop
Print |Push to Zephyr Complete!|
End Sub
With this rather simple modification, you can create feature-rich Mass Mailings with Microsoft Word-like Mail Merge via Zephyr, my totally free Configuration-based Rich Text Mail Merge and Emailing Utility!
Don't forget, you can enter to win my review copy of IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 from Packt Publishing by finding the easter egg found in the above demo video and posting a comment at Review: IBM Lotus Notes and Domino 8.5.1 from Packt Publishing (and Special Giveaway Contest)!
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Did you mean to put
Call jdoc.Replaceitemvalue("form", "jobdocument")
before
Call jdoc.Replaceitemvalue("form_original", doc.Getitemvalue("form"))?
@Jake:
Yep!
Call jdoc.Replaceitemvalue("form", "jobdocument") sets the value of the form NotesItem in the Job Document (of course), while Call jdoc.Replaceitemvalue("form_original", doc.Getitemvalue("form")) tells me the original value of the form NotesItem.This way, I can tell my Email Template in Zephyr to run on something like this:
isn't form_original going to say "jobdocument" because you've already overwritten the form field's value? (It's a question of ordering)
whoops, I didn't see that it was a different document object. My bad.