Created attachment 180239 [details] Screenshot of messagebox, which doesen't allow to change an link to a database directly. Open LO → Tools → Options → LibreOffice Base → Databases. Click on a registered database, for example 'Bibliography'. Click "Edit". A dialog "Edit Database Link" appears. Click "OK". A messagebox appears: The name 'Bibliography' is already used for another database. Please choose a different name. Expected behavior: Dialog "Edit Database Link" will be closed when pressing "OK". Seems the dialog doesn't know anything about the database link, which has been started by the button "Edit". So you could only edit a link by changing the registered name, pressing "OK", opening with "Edit", changing back to the originally name, pressing "OK". This buggy behavior appears in Version: 7.4.0.0.alpha1 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: b871abad383583f02eb49c7e49aeae01f6941072 CPU threads: 6; OS: Linux 5.3; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb) Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded It also appears in older versions. Could be it never worked right.
Confirmed in Version: 7.3.2.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 49f2b1bff42cfccbd8f788c8dc32c1c309559be0 CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 7600; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR); UI: fr-FR Calc: threaded
On pc Debian x86-64 with master sources updated today, I could reproduce this. I gave a try with: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/156785
Julien Nabet committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/44d50f0226b1003f60dd0a890e2309cac9660812 tdf#149195: Impossible to change link of a DB and keep the same registered name It will be available in 24.2.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Cherry-pick waiting for review here: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/156735
Julien Nabet committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-7-6": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/574316ea568a09074cda20dd7953f578b081a754 tdf#149195: Impossible to change link of a DB and keep the same registered name It will be available in 7.6.2. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.