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When you print your form containing linked objects, you select the data
file to merge for the current print run. FoD-OMR opens the file and
examines the first record (line), extracting the data for its fields.
Data fields from the record are displayed on the form as text, barcodes
and response position pre-slugging and the form is printed.
The process repeats for each record in the file,
with one records corresponding to a single form.
Click the Print button to open the Print dialog
box and select the Merge tab.
From
the Merge tab, click Browse to locate the data file. FoD-OMR shows
either fixed size records or delimited records, depending on the answer
to this question when this form was set up:
Separated values defines delimited data files. Click Options to select
the Field Delimiter and
the use (or not) of the Text
qualifier:
Some databases and spreadsheets enclose text
fields in a single or double quotation mark. FoD-OMR can remove this
character when extracting text if you select the Text
qualifier used.
Most databases and spreadsheets also put the name
of each field in the first record of their file, like a table header.
If your data file is formatted in this way, you can select First
row contains field names. When this option is checked FoD-OMR
will use the first row to identify each column and extract the
information to the relevant data field.
If your data file does not have column headers,
the order of extraction is determined by the start position of each
data field. The first column is the data is extracted to the first data
field, the second column to the second data field and so forth. For
more info on defining the start position of a data field see Defining
Fields.
Click Print to merge the files
and print them, or Preview to view a sample of the
print run.
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