Bug 66454 - Letter wizard creates templates with missing user data fields (names, phone, email...)
Summary: Letter wizard creates templates with missing user data fields (names, phone, ...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.0.2.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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: 79387 134071 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Wizard
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Reported: 2013-07-01 12:47 UTC by Alessandro Ceschini
Modified: 2023-11-25 15:30 UTC (History)
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Description Alessandro Ceschini 2013-07-01 12:47:30 UTC
Hello everybody,

The letter wizard of Writer routinely leaves out my name, my phone number and my email address during the creation of a letter model. I mean, they do appear on the letter while the wizard is still open, but when the saved ott file doesn't display them, only the postal address is left, the rest is always lost, it doesn't matter which one of the three letter models (business, formal personal and personal) I choose, the result is always identical.

I'm running Libreoffice 4.0.2.2 on Ubuntu 13.04
Comment 1 Thomas Hackert 2013-07-03 14:25:37 UTC
Hello Alessandro, *,
thank you for reporting this bug :)

Alas, I can confirm it with LO Version: 4.1.0.1.0+ Build ID: 6ccc588a522f1068706fe05f5c819e488b6628e
TinderBox: Linux-x86_64@31-Release-Configuration-RHEL5-Baseline, Branch:libreoffice-4-1, Time: 2013-07-01_15:59:20 with installed Germanophone help- as well as langpack under Debian Testing AMD64 ... :( Therefore I will set the status of this bug to "New".

Steps to reproduce:
1. Go to "Tools - Options - LibreOffice - User Data" and fill in your personal data, if you haven't done it yet
2. Go to "File - Wizards - Letter..."
3. You can either choose "Business letter" or "Formal personal letter", it doesn't matter ...
4. Click through the wizard, until you have saved the template and clicked on "Finish"
5. Now look at the header of the letter

In my case, there is no name and the zip code follows the town, whereas for my locale it should be the other way round ... :(

Interstingly, if I start LO from commandline, it spits
<quote>
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "~/LO/daily/opt/libreoffice4.1/program/wizards/letter/LetterWizardDialogImpl.py", line 1001, in saveConfiguration
    self.myConfig.writeConfiguration(root, "cp_")
  File "~/LO/daily/opt/libreoffice4.1/program/wizards/common/ConfigGroup.py", line 31, in writeConfiguration
    self.writeField( name, configurationView, param)
  File "~/LO/daily/opt/libreoffice4.1/program/wizards/common/ConfigGroup.py", line 38, in writeField
    prefix)
  File "~/LO/daily/opt/libreoffice4.1/program/wizards/common/ConfigGroup.py", line 31, in writeConfiguration
    self.writeField( name, configurationView, param)
  File "~/LO/daily/opt/libreoffice4.1/program/wizards/common/ConfigGroup.py", line 40, in writeField
    setattr(configView,propertyName,getattr(self,field))
wizards.common.ConfigGroup.com.sun.star.script.CannotConvertException: TYPE is not supported!
</quote>
... Though I am not sure, if this is related at all ... :(

Sorry for the inconvenience
Thomas.
Comment 2 Alessandro Ceschini 2013-07-03 14:54:13 UTC
Hello thackert,

Also the signature is lacking, about the zip code, yes, it should precede the city, but I think this problem should be filed under another bug report.
Comment 3 Alessandro Ceschini 2013-10-25 13:00:58 UTC
Hello everybody,

On LibreOffice 4.1.2.3 on Ubuntu 13.10 the bug is still there. Do you plan to assign it to someone?
Comment 4 Alessandro Ceschini 2014-02-01 15:14:37 UTC
Bump!
LO 4.1.3.2 and the problem is still there.
Comment 5 Thomas Hackert 2014-03-02 18:17:27 UTC
Hello Alessandro, *,
it is still reproducible w/ LO Version: 4.2.2.1 Build ID: 3be8cda0bddd8e430d8cda1ebfd581265cca5a0f with installed Germanophone help- as well as langpack under Debian Testing i386 ... :( I think, I start a mail to the QA ML to ask there for help ... :(
Sorry for the inconvenience
Thomas.
Comment 6 Alessandro Ceschini 2014-03-05 08:16:41 UTC
(In reply to comment #5)
> Hello Alessandro, *,
> it is still reproducible w/ LO Version: 4.2.2.1 Build ID:
> 3be8cda0bddd8e430d8cda1ebfd581265cca5a0f with installed Germanophone help-
> as well as langpack under Debian Testing i386 ... :( I think, I start a mail
> to the QA ML to ask there for help ... :(
> Sorry for the inconvenience
> Thomas.

Yes, it's reproducible. Though no germanophone help on my installation.
Comment 7 Joel Madero 2015-05-02 15:43:38 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 Thomas Hackert 2015-07-12 12:05:20 UTC
Hello Joel, *,
(In reply to Joel Madero from comment #7)
<sniip>
> If you have time, please do the following:
> 
>    Test to see if the bug is still present on a currently supported version
> of LibreOffice (4.4.2 or later)
>    https://www.libreoffice.org/download/
> 
>    If the bug is present, please leave a comment that includes the version
> of LibreOffice and your operating system, and any changes you see in the bug
> behavior
<snip>

alas, this bug is still valid in LO on Debian Testing AMD64 with

Version: 4.4.4.3
Build-ID: 40m0(Build:3)
Gebietsschema: de_DE.UTF-8
(Debian's own version)

and

Version: 5.0.0.3
Build-ID: f79b5ba13f5e6cbad23f8038060e556217e66632
Gebietsschema: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8)
(parallel installed, following the instructions from https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel/Linux .... :( Both versions are installed with Germanophone UI as well as helppack.

Thanks for the reminder and have a nice day
Thomas.
Comment 9 QA Administrators 2016-09-20 10:14:34 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 10 goetz.waschk 2020-10-27 13:04:07 UTC
This bug is still valid in Libreoffice 7.0.2.2. Just tested with the upstream Debian package on Ubuntu 18.04.
Comment 11 Dennis Schridde 2022-05-14 19:18:46 UTC
Is this related to bug #79387 or bug #134071?
Comment 12 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2022-05-15 00:41:53 UTC
*** Bug 79387 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2022-05-15 00:42:34 UTC
*** Bug 134071 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 14 Stéphane Guillou (stragu) 2022-05-15 00:52:35 UTC
Marking as affecting all OSs and all hardware, seeing duplicates.

Still the case in:

Version: 7.4.0.0.alpha1+ / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 4bd8eb13e1e2693961fdb9c19c403fde9d163de1
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 5.13; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: en-AU (en_AU.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

My step:

1. In "Tools > Options... > LibreOffice > User Data", fill in the name fields as well as the address fields
2. "File > Wizards > Letters", pick any of the three templates
3. Click "Finish"

In the resulting template, the name, phone number and email address are never populated, even if sometimes they are shown on the preview when creating the template.
Comment 15 Dieter 2022-10-04 06:47:06 UTC
*** Bug 134071 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 16 crptdngl71 2023-11-04 17:50:02 UTC
I have to confirm this error is still there unfixed in version
Version: 7.5.8.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 50(Build:2)
CPU threads: 8; OS: Linux 6.5; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+xcb)
Locale: de-DE (de_DE.utf8); UI: de-DE
Debian package version: 4:7.5.8-1
Calc: threaded

What is also annoying about the wizard is that it always wants to create a template instead of straight away using the newly created letter as a single document. There should be an option neither to create nor overwrite an existing template but use the "wizarded sheet" directly as current document for letter editing.
Comment 17 hinrich 2023-11-25 15:30:59 UTC
Bug known now more than 10 years and still not fixed!!!