Bug 134071 - LETTER WIZARD: Template created with wizard misses user information
Summary: LETTER WIZARD: Template created with wizard misses user information
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 66454
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.4.4.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) All
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Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Wizard
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Reported: 2020-06-17 13:39 UTC by hinrich
Modified: 2022-10-21 20:44 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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New writer document without personal data (9.20 KB, image/jpeg)
2020-06-17 13:42 UTC, hinrich
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Screen shot of creation process (51.73 KB, image/jpeg)
2020-06-17 13:44 UTC, hinrich
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Description hinrich 2020-06-17 13:39:32 UTC
Description:
I created a template with the wizard. While creation process the forecast looks fine. I clicked SAVE. I created a new text document. I opened the template. No personal data is shown (name, address, city ...)

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a template with wizard.
2.Check Letter
3.Select styles
4.Finish
5.Create new writer text file
5.Open the template

Actual Results:
A new document is created with all user information missing, like name or city.
The text 'Hello', the greeting at the end of the letter and the mail or the bottle symbol is visible.

Expected Results:
Name and address in the to left corner of the document


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes



Additional Info:
Version: 6.4.4.2 (x64)
Build-ID: 3d775be2011f3886db32dfd395a6a6d1ca2630ff
CPU-Threads: 4; BS: Windows 10.0 Build 18363; UI-Render: Standard; VCL: win; 
Gebietsschema: de-DE (de_DE); UI-Sprache: de-DE
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 hinrich 2020-06-17 13:42:37 UTC
Created attachment 162117 [details]
New writer document without personal data
Comment 2 hinrich 2020-06-17 13:44:07 UTC
Created attachment 162118 [details]
Screen shot of creation process
Comment 3 Dieter 2020-06-24 15:29:06 UTC
It seems, that for personal letter you can't add that informations. Don't know, if this behaviour is intended or not.

Help doesn't give informations about it: https://help.libreoffice.org/7.0/en-GB/text/shared/autopi/01010400.html?&DbPAR=WRITER&System=WIN

cc: Design Team for further input
Comment 4 Heiko Tietze 2020-06-25 10:50:19 UTC
If you mean by "user information" the address fields, did you enable macros as requested in the message box?
Comment 5 hinrich 2020-06-25 14:18:39 UTC
Yes, makros enabled.
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2020-06-26 03:41:43 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 hinrich 2020-06-29 09:09:20 UTC
I created the template with OpenOffice and can use it with LibreOffice. It seems that LibreOffice does not store the data when finishing the creation of the template. The preview is always correct.
Comment 8 Heiko Tietze 2020-06-29 09:45:24 UTC
So let's take this as a potential bug. No need for UX input (besides the wizard is not really a milestone for usability).
Comment 9 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2021-07-31 11:48:56 UTC
Reproduced with:

Version: 7.0.6.2 (x64)
Build ID: 144abb84a525d8e30c9dbbefa69cbbf2d8d4ae3b
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19042; UI render: default; VCL: win
Locale: en-AU (en_AU); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

And a recent Master build:

Version: 7.3.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 67f2a99229101757af4f40118f4d3c83ba38648b
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19042; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-AU (en_AU); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Using the following steps:

1. Open Writer
2. Make sure you have some information in Tools - Options - LibreOffice - User Data - Address
3. File - Wizards - Letter...
4. Choose "Personal Letter - Mail
5. Click "Finish"
6. Save the template somewhere
7. Enable macros if a dialogue prompts you to do so

Actual results: 
Even though the preview was showing the user data at the top left of the letter template while designing it, the resulting file is not populated with the same information.
Comment 10 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2021-07-31 12:06:19 UTC
Also reproduced on Ubuntu 18.04, so not Windows-specific:

Version: 7.0.6.2
Build ID: 144abb84a525d8e30c9dbbefa69cbbf2d8d4ae3b
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 4.15; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 11 Dennis Schridde 2022-05-14 19:19:40 UTC
Is this related to bug #66454 or bug #79387?
Comment 12 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2022-05-15 00:42:34 UTC
Thanks Dennis, you have spotted duplicated of this bug. Marking them as such.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 66454 ***
Comment 13 hinrich 2022-10-02 20:50:55 UTC
It's a shame to mark my bug report as resolved by marking it as duplicate of 66454 which is not resolved. It is now more than two years ago that I reported the bug and nothing happened. The longest time I ever needed to fix a bug in the software I developed was two weeks! And I am alone, you have a team! 
I've switched back to OpenOffice again.
Comment 14 Dieter 2022-10-04 06:47:06 UTC
(In reply to hinrich from comment #13)
> It's a shame to mark my bug report as resolved by marking it as duplicate of
> 66454 which is not resolved.

That's the normal procedure. If a bug is a duplicate, bug report itself is marked as RESOLVED, although the bug of course is not resolved.

=> RESOLVED DUPLICATE

> It is now more than two years ago that I
> reported the bug and nothing happened. The longest time I ever needed to fix
> a bug in the software I developed was two weeks!
Everybody can take a bug and fix it. That's the idea of a community. So feel free to fix it as a lot of volunteers fix bug.

> And I am alone, you have a
> team! 
Yes there is a communty, but most of the developers are not paid, but they do it as volunteers.And every developer is free to take the bug he/she likes.

> I've switched back to OpenOffice again.
Sad to read this. I assume you know, that they only fix a couple of bugs per year.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 66454 ***
Comment 15 hinrich 2022-10-19 20:21:44 UTC
My problem report is resolved because it is marked as a duplicate.
Okay.
But the problem is not resolved!
When will bug 66454 be resolved?
Comment 16 Dieter 2022-10-21 20:44:04 UTC
(In reply to hinrich from comment #15)
> When will bug 66454 be resolved?

Can't say, because - as I told before - every developer is more or less free to fix the bug he likes to fix. So we have bugs which are fixed within a week and bugs which are still present after five or more years.