Bug 153940 - Create a new help page explaining how to setup a Firebird connection
Summary: Create a new help page explaining how to setup a Firebird connection
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.3.0.1 rc
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Whiteboard: target:7.6.0
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Blocks: Database-Connectivity 85148
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Reported: 2023-03-03 15:15 UTC by jcsanz
Modified: 2023-03-21 12:19 UTC (History)
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Description jcsanz 2023-03-03 15:15:51 UTC
Description:
The database connection wizard has an option to connect to a Firebird external database but in the help page is missed the option explaining how to setup this connections

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Base
2. In the Database wizard click on Help button
3. The Database selection hel p0 page is opened
4. The setup a Firebird connection is missed
5. If go to the next step in the wizard an click on Help, it is shown the Database wizard help paga, which is very similar to later and has also setup configuration link, and also missed Firebird database

Actual Results:
No Firebird configuration information is shown

Expected Results:
Setup Firebird database conguration information


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
I could help to prepare the information to the missed page, but I'm not a native English speaker and my English is not good, also I know nothing about help pages production
Comment 1 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2023-03-05 08:41:05 UTC
Confirmed that this is still not available for the 7.6 documentation.
Should be linked at the bottom of pages like https://help.libreoffice.org/7.6/en-US/text/sdatabase/dabawiz02connection.html
Comment 2 Commit Notification 2023-03-05 11:44:15 UTC
Juan C Sanz committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/help/commit/cac1b0946ef184d11028d3f4f6e767f3e454ffd2

tdf#153940 New Help page for Firebird external connection