I set up a Writer document using fields form a LO Calc data source and tried to generate a merged document. File » Print "it's got form fields, wanna print form letter?" YES Dialogue shows, shows correct data (400 rows ish), all looks good. Output to: (I want it all in one file, but I've tried all options: Printer and mulit/sinlge Files) If single file was selected, I'm asked for a filename as usual. Then the dialogue disappears; no error; no file/print jobs made.
After a while of fiddling, I got it to print a record from the middle of the dataset ("Selected record"). Following this, it seems to work. Really odd. And took me about an hour of trying every possible thing, so might be an issue for others, too.
Sample documents for testing would be great. Set to NEEDINFO. Change back to UNCONFIRMED after you have provided the documents. Or set to RESOLVED INVALID, if you can't reproduce it anymore.
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I have what appears to be the same issue. Let me know if you need more information. Because there's no errors I've recorded a video to prove to you the behaviour: https://vimeo.com/172328499 This is a fairly clean install of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS with all updates applied. LibreOffice version info (from help/about): Version: 5.1.3.2 Build ID: 1:5.1.3-0ubuntu1 CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Linux 4.4; UI Render: default; Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8) Thanks
Tim: could you try with a TDF package to see, if you get a different result than the Ubuntu package? http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel/Linux
Forgot to add Tim to CC when requesting further test.
I've had a look and the maze of instructions for other builds has defeated me, some more specific guidance on what you want installed and how to test it would be helpful. Thanks.
(In reply to Tim Abell from comment #8) > I've had a look and the maze of instructions for other builds has defeated > me, some more specific guidance on what you want installed and how to test > it would be helpful. Thanks. http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/5.1.4/deb/x86_64/LibreOffice_5.1.4_Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz Then continue from this step 2: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel/Linux#Step_2:_Downloading_and_Unpacking_the_Installation_Files and follow the instructions for DEB packages. I recommend step 4 (changing the user profile location). You can skip steps 5-7 and simply run it by executing path-to-install-folder/install/opt/libreoffice/program/soffice
thank you kindly Buovjaga that was a lot simpler :-) I can report that using that build the mail merge worked fine. Anything else I can do to try an narrow this down? Does libre office keep any data cached anywhere that would be worth wiping? I copy my files from my home folder across from old pc builds, but not the hidden folders unless I know I need them, I like to keep things clean between builds. If you're interested in my more general experiences with mailmerge, check out http://timwise.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/libreoffice-mail-merge-data-source.html
(In reply to Tim Abell from comment #10) > Anything else I can do to try an narrow this down? Does libre office keep > any data cached anywhere that would be worth wiping? I copy my files from my > home folder across from old pc builds, but not the hidden folders unless I > know I need them, I like to keep things clean between builds. Only this: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile
I tried moving /home/tim/.config/libreoffice out of the way and the ubuntu packaged libreoffice still exhibits the same behaviour. Perhaps it's something to do with the specific document / data source I'm using.
Sorry forgot I'd already reproduced it from scratch. Let me know if there's anything else I can do to help.
Created attachment 127425 [details] bug repro spreadsheet
Created attachment 127426 [details] bug repro writer document Attached the files used in the demo, do you need any more information from me to help solve this problem? Should I be reporting it to Ubuntu given that the build direct from LibreOffice worked fine? Thanks
(In reply to Tim Abell from comment #15) > Should I be reporting it to Ubuntu given that the build direct from > LibreOffice worked fine? Yep, I think so. Maybe you could also try with 5.2: https://launchpad.net/~libreoffice/+archive/ubuntu/ppa There have been a lot of mail-merge fixes thanks to the Munich hackers and more to come (basically a rewrite was done).
Okay thanks, I'll give that a go, good to hear it's being worked on. Reported to Ubuntu here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1625109
Upgrading to the version from that PPA has fixed the installed copy for me. Many thanks!
Ok, I guess we can close this as WFM. No response from the original reporter for a long time etc..