Mail Merge
This option is a merge to Word feature that takes the company or contact information and places it in a Word template that you select. Additionally, you can create activities from this merge function.
Search the existing Merge document
To search for the existing Merge document, follow these steps:
- Choose Setup Module from the dropdown in the navigation pane.
- Click Mail Merge. It opens a Merge Documents window.
- Click zoom icon in the Search field. This will display all the existing mail merge documents as a list.
Add a new merge document
The following steps show how to add a new merge document:
- Click Add (+) icon in the toolbar. It opens a Merge card.
- Enter Description.
- Choose Entity. Contact is the default option.
- Click Save
- The saved Merge document will be displayed in the list page.
Adding fields in the Merge Documents
To add the fields in the Merge document, follow these steps:
- Click the specific Merge Document from the list page. This will open a Company Blank Mail card.
- Under Merge Fields FastTab, click plus (+) icon in the toolbar. This action opens a Field Picker.
- Choose the fields you want to get displayed in the selected Merge Document.
- The added fields are displayed in the selected Merge document.
Managing the Merge document
Creating the Data Source
To create a data source, follow these steps:
- Go to Options.
- Choose Create Data Source. This will download an excel sheet with information on Merged fields.
- Save the excel file to your local computer.
Insert Data Source to Word Document
The following steps show how to edit the merge document:
- Go to Options.
- Choose Edit Document. This will download a word document.
- Open the word document and you will receive a message Data from your database will be placed in the document. Do you want to continue?. Click Yes.
- Select the Data Source. Note: Select the saved excel file from your local computer.
- Click Mailings in the word document toolbar. Then click Insert Merge Field. This will display all the merge fields
- Select the fields of your interest.
- Save the document.
Upload Document
To upload the Merge template, follow these steps:
- Go to Options.
- Choose Upload Documents.
- Select the saved word document with merge fields of your interest from your local computer.
Test Mail Merge
To test the mail merge action, follow these steps:
- Go to Options.
- Choose Test Mail Merge. This will open a card with all the entity records, for example: contact or company.
- Select an entity record and this will download a word document with details of the merge field selected.
To Run Mail Merge
- Go to Workspace in the navigation pane.
- Choose the entity such as Contact or Company.
- Select specific records under the entity list page
- Go to options in the entity toolbar.
- Choose Mail Merge. This opens a Mail Merge card.
- Choose the Merge template you have created.
- Select Merge. This will download a document which display the Merged fields you have selected.