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DSSTIM
12-27-2007, 03:57 PM
The company I work for is going to be moving over to a standardized signature for Outlook. This means I'm going to have to create a signature for every single person in the company (several hundred). I made an HTML template that I'll just need to put their name, title, and various other information.

I was wondering if there was any sort of way I can make a spread sheet or database that has the corresponding information in it, and have the template include identifiers for where the data goes. Like have something in the template saying *name*, *title*, etc. It would be nice if I could include all this information in a database or spread sheet and somehow be able to have it generate HTML files for each person so I can use them for the signatures.

I know this probably falls into more of development and programming than HTML. Just looking for a starting point to maybe see if there would be an easier way than just doing all this manually.

WebJoel
12-27-2007, 06:31 PM
Sounds more like a CMS chore (Content Management System). :confused:

ray326
12-27-2007, 09:57 PM
Is this information all in your Outlook directory? If so then I'd look into how to do outlook forms. Otherwise if you put the information into a database table then it's almost trivial to generate a set of template pages from that using any programming technology that can access the database. A good database person could do the whole thing in straight SQL but you'd probably then have to separate the pages yourself.