Q: Pages 5.5 Mail and Data Merge

I did have it open and the template up.  Not sure if it makes sense, but I hadn't closed Pages and reopened it since downloading the app.  Reopened Pages and it now sees it. 

That works but now I'm getting the -2700 error that I saw on someone else's post. 

4/6/15 2:41:23.772 PM discoveryd[2147]: Basic Sockets SetDelegatePID() failed for PID[2810] errno[3] result[-1]

4/6/15 2:43:17.839 PM discoveryd[2147]: Basic Sockets SetDelegatePID() failed for PID[2810] errno[3] result[-1]

4/6/15 2:43:37.539 PM discoveryd[2147]: Basic Sockets SetDelegatePID() failed for PID[2810] errno[3] result[-1]

4/6/15 2:43:58.188 PM Pages Data Merge[4078]: applicationWillFinishLaunching:

4/6/15 2:43:58.188 PM Pages Data Merge[4078]: Checking ASOC framework…

4/6/15 2:43:58.188 PM Pages Data Merge[4078]: (

        (

        "FIRST ITEM",

        "SECOND ITEM",

        "THIRD ITEM"

    ),

        (

        "FOURTH ITEM",

        "FITH ITEM",

        "SIXTH ITEM"

    )

)

4/6/15 2:43:58.189 PM Pages Data Merge[4078]: Reseting stored export location…

4/6/15 2:43:58.189 PM Pages Data Merge[4078]: Reseting progress values to default…

4/6/15 2:43:58.226 PM Pages Data Merge[4078]: *** -[AppDelegate applicationWillFinishLaunching:]: Pages got an error: every document of application id "com.apple.iWork.Pages" of «script» doesn’t understand the “count” message. (error -1708)

4/6/15 2:44:00.981 PM Pages Data Merge[4078]: GETTING CURRENT DOCUMENT TAGS

4/6/15 2:44:00.984 PM Pages Data Merge[4078]: Problem getting tags

4/6/15 2:44:03.809 PM Pages Data Merge[4078]: OK

4/6/15 4:59:27.363 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: User clicked Begin button

4/6/15 4:59:27.363 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: Checking source data…

4/6/15 4:59:27.363 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: Checking destination folder…

4/6/15 4:59:27.363 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: Checking password…

4/6/15 4:59:27.364 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: Checking mail subject…

4/6/15 4:59:27.364 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: Posting confirmation alert…

4/6/15 4:59:29.514 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: beginProcessing:

4/6/15 4:59:29.514 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: Calling performSelector:

4/6/15 4:59:29.788 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: beginProcessingForReal:

4/6/15 4:59:29.789 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: outputFormatIndicator: 3

4/6/15 4:59:29.789 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: automaticallySendMessages: false

4/6/15 4:59:29.789 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: sourceData class: list

4/6/15 4:59:29.789 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: cellCount: 8

4/6/15 4:59:29.789 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: {

    mailFlag = "";

    placeholderItem = AUTHORS;

    sourceItem = a;

}

4/6/15 4:59:29.789 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: thisPlaceholderTag: AUTHORS

4/6/15 4:59:29.790 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: {

    mailFlag = "";

    placeholderItem = NUMBER;

    sourceItem = b;

}

4/6/15 4:59:29.790 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: thisPlaceholderTag: NUMBER

4/6/15 4:59:29.790 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: {

    mailFlag = "";

    placeholderItem = TITLE;

    sourceItem = c;

}

4/6/15 4:59:29.790 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: thisPlaceholderTag: TITLE

4/6/15 4:59:29.791 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: {

    mailFlag = "";

    placeholderItem = "";

    sourceItem = "<null>";

}

4/6/15 4:59:29.791 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: thisPlaceholderTag:

4/6/15 4:59:29.791 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: {

    mailFlag = "";

    placeholderItem = "";

    sourceItem = "<null>";

}

4/6/15 4:59:29.791 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: thisPlaceholderTag:

4/6/15 4:59:29.791 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: {

    mailFlag = "";

    placeholderItem = "";

    sourceItem = "<null>";

}

4/6/15 4:59:29.791 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: thisPlaceholderTag:

4/6/15 4:59:29.792 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: {

    mailFlag = "";

    placeholderItem = "";

    sourceItem = "<null>";

}

4/6/15 4:59:29.792 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: thisPlaceholderTag:

4/6/15 4:59:29.792 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: {

    mailFlag = "";

    placeholderItem = "";

    sourceItem = "<null>";

}

4/6/15 4:59:29.792 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: thisPlaceholderTag:

4/6/15 4:59:29.793 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: (

    1,

    2,

    3

)

4/6/15 4:59:29.793 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: (

    AUTHORS,

    NUMBER,

    TITLE

)

4/6/15 4:59:29.793 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: targetMailAddressIndex : false

4/6/15 4:59:29.793 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: targetNameAddOnIndex: false

4/6/15 4:59:29.793 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: Email address check…

4/6/15 4:59:29.793 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: targetTags check…

4/6/15 4:59:29.823 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: tempFolder: Macintosh HD:private:var:folders:4l:pn446k9x62z5dx96l94gbywm0000gn:T:TemporaryItems:B0E2D 204-1C81-4EE8-8552-7AEDDB6A7D82:

4/6/15 4:59:29.823 PM Pages Data Merge[4205]: Checking document properties…

Here is a pic of the portion of the pages file with the tags in caps. 

Settings on merge app

The source is a Numbers table.

I Have a similar question. Does pages 5.5.2 allow mail merge from contacts Address book?

First off, great app. I'm lost without the ability to do a mail merge and think it's terrible that Apple dropped that feature from Pages 5. Apple should thank its lucky stars that people like you are willing to fill in its deliberately created gaps in the software.

Unfortunately, I'm having the same issue as jeffallen1, wherein I too need to have multiple merges on a single page. Do you have an update on your progress toward a solution?

Thanks for this very helpful app Sal.

As per some of the others on here, I would welcome an option to merge to a single document for printing.  I can however use a workaround for this, so it's not a big issue.

What is an issue is how the app handles empty cells in numbers.  I am using the app to merge postal addresses and some cells don't have any data - where there is no data found I need to not have a gap in the address - i.e. an empty line.  Is there any workaround for this?

Thanks,

Nick

Thanks for your swift response Sal,  Instead of this:

I would like this:

In my Numbers spreadsheet there are two columns between 'London' and 'NW1 0PE' which are used for some addresses but not others.

I hope this helps clarify.

Nick

Here you go: