GhostFill - Database Connection

• ODBC GhostFill's tried and tested "GhostConnect" module facilitates the linking to any ODBC-compliant external database (e.g. Microsoft Access, SQL, Foxpro, Paradox, DB2 etc).
• COM / ADO GhostFill's COM architecture allows native and direct connectivity to almost any database. Additionally, this means of connection permits a developer to pull the external data source and reference it inside GhostFill as an object.
• GhostFill Outlook Server GhostFill's Outlook Server enables you very simply to select one or more records in any of your Outlook folders (especially Contacts) and then have the record details filled automatically into your templates.

Connectivity - Database driven document assembly

Databases, email programs and contacts managers, spreadsheets and personal information managers - most of us have a plethora of powerful information available at our fingertips. Or do we? More often than not this information stays exactly where it is; safe and secure somewhere on our hard drive or company network where we never use it! Typing a letter to an old colleague or a new business contact usually has us scurrying for notes scrawled during a business meeting, or flipping through our well worn address book or business card holder to find the vital contact information we need. The GhostFill Databases plug-in enables you to use information stored in databases like Microsoft Access, spreadsheets and contact managers in your documents. In fact, GhostFill's Databases plug-in can link to any ODBC compliant data source.

A DataLink Wizard will guide you step by step through the connection procedure, right up to inserting the GhostFill FillPoints where you need your information to appear. When you fill the document, the friendly Data Selection Interface will be presented, from where you can simply select the record that you need. The information associated with the selected record is inserted into the document in the way you specify! No more messy and muddlesome mail merges that take ages to set up and never seem to give the results that you are looking for; no more limitations on the source of the data you need to use. Just click your way to documents that powerfully allow you to use all your data!

Filling letters, creating powerful reports and client specific quotations are just the tip of the iceberg. The flexibility of GhostFill's Databases plug-in means that now you can use your data how and where you want - instead of just storing it somewhere!

Other Database Integrations

It is worth noting that another major desktop document assembly platform has similar database integration capabilities. Since the release of HotDocs 2005, HotDocs has provided quality database connection and API features for complete automation systems.