Make a new spreadsheet. 1st line: (headers with column format) BBP_PID,N,9,0 MSUM,N,16,2 2nd line: (and others - data) 5594 1234,56 then save it to .DBF file. Close it. Open it from disk and see result: BBP_PID,N,7,2 MSUM,N,7,2 5594,00 1234,56 And this bug not only in LO, it was made while OOo 3 released, in version 2 all it was OK.
Reproduced on LibreOffice 3.3 (final) on Mac OSX.
definitely not a blocker. See its definition https://bugs.freedesktop.org/page.cgi?id=fields.html#importance
Reproduced on LibreOffice 3.3.0 OOO330m19 (Build:6) tag libreoffice-3.3.0.4, Ubuntu package 1:3.3.0-1maverick1 Save as ttt.dbf: $ dbview -oe ttt.dbf Field Name Type Length Decimal Pos Bbp pid N 7 2 Msum N 7 2
[This is an automated message.] This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases. Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1 more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
Dear bug submitter! Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs. To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem. Yours! Florian
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 47496 ***
I do not save first example - General InOut error. Os: Kubuntu 12.04 with last LO from Kubuntu repositories: LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 350m1(Build:2)