Mail's Basic Functionality
As a recent Switcher, I have been looking at all the various software packages on offer, trying to figure out which ones will serve my needs best.
I used to be an Outlook user on Windows, and have been using Entourage since it is very similar, but am quite disappointed with the responsiveness under Rosetta. It is very sluggish.
So, I had a good at Mail, and while I like the simplicity of it, there are a couple of minor but important things that, unless I can satisfactorily resolve them, will probably eliminate Mail as a serious option for me.
So, a couple of questions... if anyone can offer me any suggestions I'd love to know about them.
1. Can the message preview pane be made into a vertical pane on the right of the main window, rather than a horizontal pane at the bottom?
2. Can you get a "Next Message" button on an open message? At the moment, if I want to read a message in its own window (instead of that awful horizontal pane) I have to open it, read it, close it, then do the same to the next message, etc, etc. I get way too much mail to to that. On most mail apps you can normally open a message window, then just click a Next or Previous button to move through the list.
3. How tightly can Mail be integrated with Addressbook and iCal? I do like the way Entourage lets you make links between these components, and shows a list of related links. I like iCal too, for it's simplicity, but Entourage seems to allow better integration.
That will do for now, I'll think of others I'm sure.
I suspect I know the answers already, but I could have missed something obvious regarding the above issues.
Thanks
Chris
A (or shall I call you ABD?)
There are four (4) options I can think of here..
1) There was an article posted a while back on doing a mail merge with APEX and MS Wordpad (NOT Word). I have used it for demo purposes and it seems to work okay. Your document can NOT be larger than 64k (The limit of Oracle with BLOB variables I believe).
2) Look at PL/PDF as a means to generate you document. Not the best solution, but it is cheap and would allow you to code this up in PL/SQL and generate a PDF for printing.
3) Look at Oracle Reports to generate the documents. Not the friendliest report around, but it would do this..
4) Look at BI Publisher (This is what I use for report generation in APEX). You can build the document in Word, and then load the required document into APEX and deliver a nice document in Word or PDF format..
Let me know if you have more questions..
Thank you,
Tony Miller
Webster, TX
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