Bug 34325 - PRINTING Mail Merge with .csv do not work (worked in OO 3.3)
Summary: PRINTING Mail Merge with .csv do not work (worked in OO 3.3)
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.3.1 RC1
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Windows (All)
: medium major
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2011-02-16 01:39 UTC by thePanz
Modified: 2021-03-23 09:02 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Crash report or crash signature:


Attachments
Test csv file (57 bytes, text/csv)
2012-01-23 03:16 UTC, thePanz
Details

Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.
Description thePanz 2011-02-16 01:39:05 UTC
I've a writer document with associated a csv file for a mail-merge printing created with OO-Writer 3.3

With LibreOffice-Writer I can not select the .cvs file as the data-source for printing as done with OO 3.3 .. this should be a regression from the OpenOffice Writer features..

Regards
Comment 1 Cor Nouws 2011-03-07 04:19:31 UTC
hi thepanz,

Sorry, but I cannot understand or reproduce your report.

In LibreOffice (OpenOffice.org) mail merge is done with a datasource.
  (File > New > Database etcetc Register(!) 
   or Tools > OPtions > LIbO Base > Add )
A data-file (csv, xs, ods, txt) or database is not associated with a document. It only is associated with fields, that might be placed in a odt.

When starting Tools>Mail merge, in step 3 there is the option to select an address list. That shows a list of the defined datasources.
And also the button Add.
I can select a csv-file via that.

Can you maybe be more specific where your bug is?
thanks - Cor
Comment 2 Alex Thurgood 2011-03-07 05:14:00 UTC
@Cor :

Someone on the English users list has reported that they couldn't re-use a CSV file as a datasource when using the Mailmerge function, if the data in the CSV had been updated (independently of LibO). Perhaps this is what thePanz means ?




Alex
Comment 3 Cor Nouws 2011-03-12 05:37:07 UTC
Hi ALex,

(In reply to comment #2)
> Someone on the English users list has reported that they couldn't re-use a CSV
> file as a datasource when using the Mailmerge function, if the data in the CSV
> had been updated (independently of LibO). Perhaps this is what thePanz means ?

That has been an issue for a long time, but is solved since OOo 3.0.1 or so.
And it is clearly not what thePanz writes ;-)

So I'll wait a little more, but tend to close this issue as invalid.
Comment 4 Cor Nouws 2011-07-08 06:50:20 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)

> So I'll wait a little more, but tend to close this issue as invalid.

thus close
Comment 5 thePanz 2012-01-23 03:16:25 UTC
Created attachment 56022 [details]
Test csv file
Comment 6 thePanz 2012-01-23 03:18:16 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> hi thepanz,
> 
> Sorry, but I cannot understand or reproduce your report.
> 
> In LibreOffice (OpenOffice.org) mail merge is done with a datasource.
>   (File > New > Database etcetc Register(!) 
>    or Tools > OPtions > LIbO Base > Add )
> A data-file (csv, xs, ods, txt) or database is not associated with a document.
> It only is associated with fields, that might be placed in a odt.
> 
> When starting Tools>Mail merge, in step 3 there is the option to select an
> address list. That shows a list of the defined datasources.
> And also the button Add.
> I can select a csv-file via that.
> 
> Can you maybe be more specific where your bug is?
> thanks - Cor

sorry for my delay.
I'm reproducing the this issue with:
LibreOffice 3.5.0rc1 
Build ID: b6c8ba5-8c0b455-0b5e650-d7f0dd3-b100c87
(installed "modules": Writer, Calc)

* How to reproduce I

1. create a new OpenOffice writer document
2. Tools->Options.. -> LibreOffice Base -> Databases -> New
3. Select a .csv file (eg: test1.csv)
4. close the options dialog
5. Insert->Fields->Others.. -> Database, expand test1 (cursor hangs)

* How to reproduce II

1. create a new OpenOffice writer document
2. Insert->Fields->Others.. -> Database -> Browse.. and add a .csv file (eg: test1.csv)
3. the database "test1" appears as a new database, but with any table in it: can't add any field in the current document

Regards
Comment 7 cpohle 2012-03-01 07:44:12 UTC
I can confirm this bug as well for LibreOffice 3.5.0rc3.
Comment 8 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2014-05-11 18:21:48 UTC
Can't reproduce the problem as described in comment #6 with LibreOffice 4.2.5.0.0+ under Ubuntu 14.04 x86-64.

Please, do you still encounter the problem with current stable version?

Best regards. JBF
Comment 9 Cor Nouws 2014-06-22 13:19:30 UTC
We have 4.2.x and 4.3.x in the mean time. 3.5.x is way old, so I guess a WORKSFORME, as jean-baptiste writes.
Comment 10 hurbert 2021-03-23 09:02:31 UTC
Peryourhealth is the best among all online medical bills payment method available. Peryourhealth is online health billing platform, where you can pay your almost all of your medical bill online at https://peryourhealth.fun