Bug 50519 - UI: Confusing "Do you want to overwrite it?" dialog in Wizard->Letter->...Finish
Summary: UI: Confusing "Do you want to overwrite it?" dialog in Wizard->Letter->...Finish
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.5.3 release
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
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Reported: 2012-05-30 19:36 UTC by Daniel L. Wang
Modified: 2018-01-10 17:38 UTC (History)
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Description Daniel L. Wang 2012-05-30 19:36:58 UTC
Problem description: 
(Fedora rpm:  3.5.3.2-3.fc17)
Using the Wizard -> Letter menu item, I navigated through a few pages of Next> clicks and finally at the end, clicked Finish. I immediately got a dialog box with the title "LibreOffice 3.5" with text: "The file already exists. Do you want to overwrite it?" and buttons "Yes" and "No".  At this point, there is no indication of the file's name, so the user does not know what the dialog box is referring to. I have left the template name blank and the "Location and file name" field refers to some template file ".../myLetterTemplate.ott". But this shouldn't be what is being overwritten, because I am creating a new letter.  As a user, I am not consciously creating a template, so naming the template or selecting a template file should not be needed.

Clicking "No" closes the wizard window and the window underneath which presumably shows a preview of the document being created by the wizard.

Steps to reproduce:
1. New instance of Writer
2. Wizard -> Letter
3. Click next, repeating until the last page.
4. Click Finish
5. Receive dialog asking about file overwrite.

Current behavior:
User doesn't expect to be asked about overwrite. Clicking no, she probably expects to be able to edit the new document, but instead, the wizard, dialog, and preview document windows all close, returning to the original blank instance of Writer.


Expected behavior:
Allow the user to begin editing the new document, if the safe choice is picked ("No" when asked about overwrite).

Platform (if different from the browser): Fedora 17, x86
              
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/17.0.963.79 Safari/535.11

Suggested resolutions:

* Indicate what file "already exists" in the dialog box or in the final wizard pane. 
* If saving a new template file is required in order to create a letter, notify the user of this (not so good), or create the template file in a temporary location since the user obviously doesn't care about the template, having not named it (better).
* Eliminate the need for writing the template file, since the user doesn't want one in this case anyway.
Comment 1 Joel Madero 2012-10-30 19:10:51 UTC
Marking as WORKSFORME. I'm unable to reproduce this on Bodhi Linux using LibO 3.6.1.2. 

If this is still a problem with a recent release of LibO please reopen the bug as UNCONFIRMED and I'll try to find another member of QA to reproduce the bug.

Thanks for helping us out