Description: Created a LibO writer series letter template using Addresses.xlsx file as database for e.g. addresses. First run after creation works fine. After closing LibO and reopening for working with the same document an error is shown when hitting the data source button: "The connection to the data source could not be established". Going into details it shows "File Addresses.xls could not be loaded". Apparently it looks for an xls file while the connection was made to an xlsx file. When I try to delete the connection and rebuilt it, LibO crashs when hitting 'ok' to save the changes. The bahaviour is the same independent from creating the connection from writer or through base. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Create database with e.g. address files in calc and store as xlsx 2.Create series letter in writer 3.Connect database through series letter assistant or through base 4.Link data fields in series letter with database and e.g. print a few letters 5.Close LibO 6.Reopen the series letter 7.Hit datasource button to select database Actual Results: Error message appears as described Expected Results: The previously linked database should be shown Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: none
Have tested this one. Created a *.xlsx-file. Connected a database file to this *.xslx-file. Created a series letter for this database. Close LO, reopened LO, reopened the Writer file. Could switch to data source. Datasource is almost available. Tested with different LO versions (LO 7.4.3.2, also LO 7.3.6.2). No problem with data source. Might be this is a special problem of packages of your Linux distribution. My system: OpenSUSE 15.3 64bit rpm Linux, packages for LO directly installed from libreoffice.org (not the packages from OpenSUSE).
Thanks a lot for taking care of this. Here is the detailed build info: Version: 7.3.7.2 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 30(Build:2) CPU threads: 24; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb) Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI: de-DE Ubuntu package version: 1:7.3.7-0ubuntu0.22.04.1 Calc: threaded
I can't reproduce either with: Version: 7.3.7.2 / LibreOffice Community Build ID: e114eadc50a9ff8d8c8a0567d6da8f454beeb84f CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.15; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb) Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded LO 7.3 won't see further releases. Can you please test with 7.4 or 7.5 and see if you have the same issue? Please also test with Help > Safe mode, to see if the issue is linked to your user profile. Thank you!
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