Mergefield-like Question

[nelson]

We have software from a 3rd party. Included is a letter that is sent to
participants of the software (our customers). There are a number of
mergefields that present no problem to us.

There is also a field that we don't understand. We need to change it (or
what it references), but don't know what it's doing. It is of the form
[**query**], where query is the name of a sql query that is executed as part
of getting data for the letter. The remainder of the form is just as it
appears, with the square brackets & asterisks.

Do you know what this represents, and how to manipulate it?

 

[Peter Jamieson]

As far as I am aware it is not part of any kind of built-in Word field
syntax. From what you say it is not even a field, unless it is inserted
using something like { QUOTE [**query**] }.

It's almost certainly a piece of syntax invented by the supplier, i.e.
their software probably looks for sequences of text like [**whatever**]
and takes action at that the appropriate point in the process. e.g.
perhaps it inserts a table with results from the specified query.

To do the same, you would presumably have to write your own code to
interpret the query and do the right thing.

 

[nelson]

Thanks for the response. I'll see if I can get information from our software
supplier.
--
Nelson Tutterow

As far as I am aware it is not part of any kind of built-in Word field
syntax. From what you say it is not even a field, unless it is inserted
using something like { QUOTE [**query**] }.

It's almost certainly a piece of syntax invented by the supplier, i.e.
their software probably looks for sequences of text like [**whatever**]
and takes action at that the appropriate point in the process. e.g.
perhaps it inserts a table with results from the specified query.

To do the same, you would presumably have to write your own code to
interpret the query and do the right thing.

--
Peter Jamieson

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk

We have software from a 3rd party. Included is a letter that is sent to
participants of the software (our customers). There are a number of
mergefields that present no problem to us.

There is also a field that we don't understand. We need to change it (or
what it references), but don't know what it's doing. It is of the form
[**query**], where query is the name of a sql query that is executed as part
of getting data for the letter. The remainder of the form is just as it
appears, with the square brackets & asterisks.

Do you know what this represents, and how to manipulate it?