RichEditDocumentServer.MailMergeRecordStarted Event

Fires before each data record is merged with the document in the mail merge process.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraRichEdit

Assembly: DevExpress.RichEdit.v24.1.Core.dll

NuGet Packages: DevExpress.RichEdit.Core, DevExpress.Win.Navigation

Declaration

C#

public event MailMergeRecordStartedEventHandler MailMergeRecordStarted

VB.NET

Public Event MailMergeRecordStarted As MailMergeRecordStartedEventHandler

Event Data

The MailMergeRecordStarted event's data class is MailMergeRecordStartedEventArgs. The following properties provide information specific to this event:

Property	Description
Cancel	Gets or sets a value indicating whether the event should be canceled. Inherited from CancelEventArgs.
Document	Gets a merged document.
RecordDocument	Gets a template document before a record is merged.
RecordIndex	Gets an index of a record currently merged.

Remarks

The MailMergeRecordStarted event can be used to pre-process the merged section of a document that corresponds to a specified record.

Example

The code sample below shows how to handle the MailMergeRecordStarted and MailMergeRecordFinished events to insert additional content to the document:

View Example: Use DOCVARIABLE Fields

C#

using DevExpress.XtraRichEdit;
using DevExpress.XtraRichEdit.API.Native;
//...

private static void srv_MailMergeRecordStarted(object sender, MailMergeRecordStartedEventArgs e)
{
    DocumentPosition position = e.RecordDocument.Range.Start;
    DocumentRange _range =
        e.RecordDocument.InsertText(position, String.Format("Created on {0:G}\n\n", DateTime.Now));
    CharacterProperties cp = e.RecordDocument.BeginUpdateCharacters(_range);
    cp.FontSize = 8;
    cp.ForeColor = Color.Red;
    cp.Hidden = true;
    e.RecordDocument.EndUpdateCharacters(cp);
}

private static void srv_MailMergeRecordFinished(object sender, MailMergeRecordFinishedEventArgs e)
{
    e.RecordDocument.AppendDocumentContent("Docs\\bungalow.docx", DocumentFormat.OpenXml);
}

VB.NET

Imports DevExpress.XtraRichEdit
Imports DevExpress.XtraRichEdit.API.Native
'...

Private Shared Sub srv_MailMergeRecordStarted(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As MailMergeRecordStartedEventArgs)
    Dim position As DocumentPosition = e.RecordDocument.Range.Start
    Dim _range As DocumentRange = e.RecordDocument.InsertText(position, String.Format("Created on {0:G}" & vbLf & vbLf, DateTime.Now))
    Dim cp As CharacterProperties = e.RecordDocument.BeginUpdateCharacters(_range)
    cp.FontSize = 8
    cp.ForeColor = Color.Red
    cp.Hidden = True
    e.RecordDocument.EndUpdateCharacters(cp)
End Sub

Private Shared Sub srv_MailMergeRecordFinished(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As MailMergeRecordFinishedEventArgs)
    e.RecordDocument.AppendDocumentContent("Docs\bungalow.docx", DocumentFormat.OpenXml)
End Sub

Related GitHub Examples

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C#

word-document-api-use-docvariable-fields/CS/WordProcessingFileAPI_CalcDocumentVariable/Program.cs#L33

// Handle mail-merge events
wordProcessor.MailMergeRecordStarted += wordProcessor_MailMergeRecordStarted;
wordProcessor.MailMergeRecordFinished += wordProcessor_MailMergeRecordFinished;

VB.NET

word-document-api-use-docvariable-fields/VB/WordProcessingFileAPI_CalcDocumentVariable/Program.vb#L27

' Handle mail-merge events
AddHandler wordProcessor.MailMergeRecordStarted, AddressOf wordProcessor_MailMergeRecordStarted
AddHandler wordProcessor.MailMergeRecordFinished, AddressOf wordProcessor_MailMergeRecordFinished

Implements

MailMergeRecordStarted