mds_writing_serialletter 4.6.1

Grant access to serial-letter

• The group Serial letter - view grants read access to the serial letter.

• The group Serial letter - edit grants read/write access to the serial letter.

• The group Party Administration allows the user to create salutations and greetings.

Create some salutations and greetings

In Party/Configuration, open Salutation and create a few salutation, something like ‘Mr.’, ‘Mrs.’, etc. Then open Greetings and create something like ‘Dear’, ‘Hello’, etc.

Create serial letter template

In Writing, open Serial Letter and create a new entry. Enter name and subject. Enter a contact to your serial letter. Insert text and use placeholders to place recipient-specific texts.

The result could look like this:

[party:correspondence]
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam
nonumyeirmod tempor invidunt...

sincerely
[contact:name]

Add recipients

Click Recipient and add some recipients. A party can have several addresses, one of these addresses must be marked as a mailing address. Click the button Activate mailing address to mark the first address as the mailing address. For the individual recipients, select the salutations and greetings (double-click the receiver, select und save).

Export

Click the report button to get a LibreOffice-Writer-file from your mailing.