Created attachment 139207 [details] Sample starting DOCX - Open the attached DOC or DOCX, and run Tools -> Mail Merge Wizard... - Skip to step 3, and add the attached XLS as address list. - Do not specify an address block or salutation, just finish the merge. - See the different merged values for the <Dates> field. => The dates are formatted as numbers instead (eg. 43099 instead of 2018-01-01). Observed using LO 6.0.0.1 & 4.4.0.3 / Windows 7.
Created attachment 139208 [details] Sample starting DOC
Created attachment 139209 [details] Sample XLS to be used as an address list
Aron Budea committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=6feeb77552c38e3d9819611e9678470a44c00c84 tdf115103: find data source if sDataSource/sCommand are empty It will be available in 6.1.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
A polite ping to Aron Budea: is this bug fixed? if so, could you please close it as RESOLVED FIXED ? Thanks
(In reply to Xisco Faulí from comment #4) > A polite ping to Aron Budea: is this bug fixed? if so, could you > please close it as RESOLVED FIXED ? Thanks ping...
(In reply to Xisco Faulí from comment #5) > ping... Ah, it needs a unit test, but I don't know how to approach that, so...
(In reply to Aron Budea from comment #6) > (In reply to Xisco Faulí from comment #5) > > ping... > > Ah, it needs a unit test, but I don't know how to approach that, so... Hi Aron, You comment is from 3 months ago. Do you think we should just close this one without having a unittest ?
Yes, we should do that, I don't have the time (and the enthusiasm) to investigate how this could be tested properly. Thanks for the reminder!