{"id":6840,"date":"2016-01-11T13:32:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T13:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=6840"},"modified":"2016-01-11T13:32:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T13:32:41","slug":"mail-merge-embedding-in-libreoffice-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=6840","title":{"rendered":"Mail merge embedding in LibreOffice Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miklos Vajna of open source consultants <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collabora.com\/\">Collabora<\/a> has produced a short video showing the recent changes in mail merge in LibreOffice.<\/p>\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto;\"  id=\"_ytid_90104\"  width=\"600\" height=\"450\"  data-origwidth=\"600\" data-origheight=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5iQFZBOz8rM?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=0&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"Mail merge embedding in LibreOffice Writer\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>If you ever used the mail merge wizard with a Calc data source, then you know how it worked in the past: you\u2019ve got 3 files: the .odt mail template, the .ods data source and a .odb data source definition that defines how to access the .ods.<\/p>\n<p>The procedure has now been changed. As of LibreOffice 5.1, the .odb data source has been eliminated and the .ods data source is now embedded directly the .odt mail template.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miklos Vajna of open source consultants Collabora has produced a short video showing the recent changes in mail merge in LibreOffice. If you ever used the mail merge wizard with a Calc data source, then you know how it worked in the past: you\u2019ve got 3 files: the .odt mail template, the .ods data source [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,30,9],"tags":[19,24,12,11,23],"class_list":["post-6840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-source-software","category-open-standards","category-tech","tag-free-software","tag-odf","tag-open-source","tag-open-standards","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6863,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6840\/revisions\/6863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}