Description: Mailmerge data is stored in a ODS, ODS is registered as a data source, and then displayed within Writer using View | Data Sources. Mail Merge toolbar is shown using View | Toolbars | Mail merge. Mail merge document is formed, with different page style for the first page. The first page has a bitmap image as a part of page header, other pages don't. After defining mail merge fields within mail merge document, clicking on "Save merged documents" (on the MM toolbar), and then choosing "save as one large document" renders a document that doesn't replicate the first page style in proper places. Clicking on "Edit individual documents" opens up a document that has correct first page styles for all mailmerge instances but the first one. The first instance (for the first data row from ODS) uses first page style for all pages... I used this same workflow 6 months ago and it worked OK then, I think, but I can't remember which version did I use then. Steps to Reproduce: 1. create a mail merge document in writer, having a different first page style (i.e. different first page header) 2. save merged documents as one big document - no first page style is replicated 3. edit individual documents - first page style is replicated in all instances but the first one. Actual Results: Merged documents with first page headers messed up in one way or the other Expected Results: Merged documents with proper first page styles Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes OpenGL enabled: Yes Additional Info: Workaround - use "Edit individual documents", in the dataset repeat the first data row twice, and in final document delete the first instance manually. Version: 6.1.5.2 Build ID: 90f8dcf33c87b3705e78202e3df5142b201bd805 CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 10.13.6; UI render: default; Locale: hr-HR (en_HR.UTF-8); Calc: group threaded
@Emil : does this only occur when a spreadsheet is used as the merge datasource, or does it also occur with other datasources ? I seem to recall that some of this problem has already been reported as linked to the first record in the datasource when that source is a spreadsheet.
I don't have any other data sources to try. Can you send me some other type of data source to test with?
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I'm sorry, I don't know what this means. Am I required to do something?
Please attach example documents (including data source) so we do not have to create anything from scratch. Set to NEEDINFO. Change back to UNCONFIRMED after you have provided the document.
Created attachment 153494 [details] example data source
Created attachment 153495 [details] example template document
(In reply to Emil Prpic from comment #0) > Steps to Reproduce: > 1. create a mail merge document in writer, having a different first page > style (i.e. different first page header) > 2. save merged documents as one big document - no first page style is > replicated > 3. edit individual documents - first page style is replicated in all > instances but the first one. Ok, so the documents are 6 pages long. My results are: Big document has image in header only for the first page of every 6-page series. Individual documents have image in header only for the first page. So it seems I am not seeing your problem. Version: 6.4.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) Build ID: 3e64065612acec2eb29aa21e2b515953422256d7 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: GL; VCL: win; TinderBox: Win-x86_64@62-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2019-08-15_22:57:26 Locale: fi-FI (fi_FI); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded
Where do I find version 6.4? Mine is: Version: 6.1.6.3 Build ID: 5896ab1714085361c45cf540f76f60673dd96a72 CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 10.13.6; UI render: default; Locale: hr-HR (en_HR.UTF-8); Calc: group threaded and it says that it's up to date. Maybe you didn't notice, I use LibreOffice on Mac OS X...
(In reply to Emil Prpic from comment #9) > Where do I find version 6.4? Version 6.4 is not yet released. You can try 6.3.0: https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/
I confirm that the bug is not repeatable in version 6.3.0.4
Great, let's close