Bug 53049 - Recorded Macro not available after update
Summary: Recorded Macro not available after update
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 52022
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.5.4 release
Hardware: Other Linux (All)
: medium normal
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Reported: 2012-08-01 15:48 UTC by vimot2
Modified: 2012-08-02 04:56 UTC (History)
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Description vimot2 2012-08-01 15:48:01 UTC
Problem description: a macro recorded and then assigned to a Menu item, does not work after a program update. This is the second occurrence in the past three month updates.

Steps to reproduce: N/A
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Current behavior:

Expected behavior:

Platform (if different from the browser): Ubuntu 12.04
              
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Comment 1 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2012-08-01 17:31:42 UTC
Does not work is no useful description. Macro does not exist? Keyboard shortcut broken? Seems to work, but result is not as expected? Or what else?

Not a valid bug report!

@reporter:
Thank you for your report – unfortunately important information is missing.
May be hints on <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport> will help you to find out what information will be useful to reproduce your problem? If you believe that that  is really sophisticated please as for Help on a user mailing list
Please:
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- If that can help to explain the bug, please attach a sample document 
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  sample document in an other Bug with a link; to attach a file to this 
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- Contribute a document related step by step instruction containing every 
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  (similar to example in Bug 43431)
– if possible contribute an instruction how to create a sample document 
  from the scratch
- add information 
  -- what EXACTLY is unexpected
  -- and WHY do you believe it's unexpected (cite Help or Documentation!)
  -- concerning your PC 
  -- concerning your OS (Language)
  -- concerning the LibO version from what you updated
  -- All related details how you updated
  –- Libo settings that might be related to your problems 
  -- everything else crossing your mind after you read linked texts
Comment 2 vimot2 2012-08-01 18:45:11 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Does not work is no useful description. Macro does not exist? Keyboard shortcut
> broken? Seems to work, but result is not as expected? Or what else?
> 
> Not a valid bug report!
> 
> @reporter:
> Thank you for your report – unfortunately important information is missing.
> May be hints on <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport> will help you to
> find out what information will be useful to reproduce your problem? If you
> believe that that  is really sophisticated please as for Help on a user mailing
> list
> Please:
> - Write a meaningful Summary describing exactly what the problem is
> - If that can help to explain the bug, please attach a sample document 
>   (not only screenshot) or refer to an existing 
>   sample document in an other Bug with a link; to attach a file to this 
>   bug report, just click on "Add an attachment" right on this page.
> - Attach screenshots with comments if you believe that that might explain the 
>   problem better than a text comment. Best way is to insert your screenshots
>   into a DRAW document and to add comments that explain what you want to show
> - Contribute a document related step by step instruction containing every 
>   key press and every mouse click how to reproduce your problem 
>   (similar to example in Bug 43431)
> – if possible contribute an instruction how to create a sample document 
>   from the scratch
> - add information 
>   -- what EXACTLY is unexpected
>   -- and WHY do you believe it's unexpected (cite Help or Documentation!)
>   -- concerning your PC 
>   -- concerning your OS (Language)
>   -- concerning the LibO version from what you updated
>   -- All related details how you updated
>   –- Libo settings that might be related to your problems 
>   -- everything else crossing your mind after you read linked texts

Sorry. I will try to be more precise. I recorded a simple macro to paste a block of data simply as number. Then I associate this macro to a new menu item.
All was working for a couple of months. After a program update, after clicking on the menu item, I received an error of macro not found (or something like that). The macro disappeared from the macro list.
I repeated the procedure creating a new macro. Same as above: after some time, I found that the macro disappeared again.
Unfortunately I have not recorded the error message. Next time I will do if the issue comes again. I am not sure that the issue is caused by program updates or something else. (sorry for my English, I am italian).
Comment 3 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2012-08-02 04:56:21 UTC
Unfortunately still all relevant information is missing, so I close this bug for now as DUP of "Bug 52022 - CONFIGURATION: 'My Macros' lost after update from 3.5.5.3".

I will soon do further tests there, because currently information there also is rather poor.

@vimot2:
There is no need to cite all comment. Please use Bugzilla frontend (not mail client) for your comments and only if necessary and only parts of former comments.

I only have experience with WIN but I believe on Linux it will be very similar. I use the default "Folder" "My Macros" in the User Profile
<https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile#User_profile_location>
under .... \LibreOffice\3\user\basic\Standard\ in a file called "MyMacros.xba" (or similar). With a text editor you can see the source code.

Now the question is whether the .xba disappeared or has been destroyed or whether your profile folder changed or whatever?

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Please feel free to reopen this Bug if discussion with others leaded to an assessment that we have a LibO bug and a clear and comprehensible description of the problem due to  <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport>.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 52022 ***