Hi, I've found a display bug in the document preview of the mail merge assistant. Steps to reproduce: 1. create a document 2. link a spreadsheet as database 3. insert database fields 4. create a conditional text with following condition 4.1 condition: [title] != "" 4.2 then: " " 4.3 else: "" 5. use mail merge assistant and click through the setting until document preview 6. scroll through the previewed data (filled fields) if the condition would be false the empty field is suppressed but the conditional whitespace is still in preview. If I print/save the mail merge document, all fields and conditional text are handled correctly. So I think this is just a bug of the document preview of mail merge which does not solve the condition properly. In my case I wanted to display just a whitespace if there is a title (academic grade) to print for the address field. regards, Sven
Please provide test document and datasource for us to try and reproduce. Not all of us are db experts or mailmerge pros. In addition, what you don't specify, but is implied, is that your datasource has a field called title, for which some of the records are empty in the spreadsheet. This kind of implicit omission makes it harder for inexperienced mailmerge/db Qaers to try and reproduce the buggy behaviour. Setting to NEEDINFO pending requested information. pLease set back to UNCONFIRMED once you have provided it.
Created attachment 113838 [details] document template, calc sheet, database and printed mil merge document Hi Alex, sure, I've wrapped all needed data to the attached zip archive. the screenshot shows the behavior if the conditional text (whitespace) is not calculated correctly by the mail merge assistant. The test-letter.odt is the printed mail merge document to show, that after printing the document, the conditional text ist calculated correctly. the database can be used to register with LO for mail merge assistant. Hope there are all needed infos. :) regards, Sven
Confirming on Version: 4.5.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 34d6ec2c6e6618beacac881ec28ab527b25558d1 Locale: fr_ OSX 10.10.2 when the document preview is displayed, the added whitespace is visible, however, this is not so in the final document (which is correct), so the preview is wrong.
Can someone please veryfy, if my fix for the regression for bug 70346 fixed your problem?
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Had some trouble understanding how to test this (how to get the preview), but think I figured it out in the end. Comparing 4.4.5.2 with current master, there is no space before Max, so this works for me Version: 6.1.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: a488c7ad2763b944713997911c1ddb0315d8c93f CPU threads: 2; OS: Mac OS X 10.12.6; UI render: default; TinderBox: MacOSX-x86_64@49-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2018-03-26_00:38:29 Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group