Something lilke mail merge function in Draw/Impress?

[xut]

I use Draw (could also be done in Impress) to create very similar pages. I want this to be done based on a template page and a list strings processed by a macro ore something like that. I tried to create a macro myself using AI but I failed. Maybe there is some sort of mail merge function in Draw or Impress to solve this?

Here is what I have:

• A draw file with one page only.
• The page contains very few elements, one of them is a text element called “Template1”.
• Now I want to take my list of strings (could be a multi line input field or from another file) and create a new page for each entry. On this new page the content of the text element “Template1” should be replaced with the text from the file.

How would you solve this?

[Villeroy]

Copy the drawing contents to a single page Writer document and do the mail merge there.

[xut]

I miss expecially positioning of elements there. This part would be much easier in Draw.

But I will install LibreOffice Base and give it a try.

[fpy]

you can also comment in 53548 – Allow "Other" fields / DocInformation / custom editable fields in Draw/Impress (as in Writer)

[fpy]

@xut

macro

in a similar idea with images, you have a example → Créer des cadres pour les images ou les aligner ou faire les deux et plus en même temps - #11 by fpy

instead of reading images from a directory, you can read your strings from a file → Input# Statement