I have been using the labels wizard for printing labels out of a data base. Now with the same set-up the labels are not printed. I choose : file/new/labels, select fields from a remote database and insert them to the label. I press on new document and get the odt document with the correct grey fields. I press “print” and get this message: “Your document contains address database fields. Do you want to print a form letter” and press OK. I get to the window of mail merge, I see the connected database but when I press OK nothing happens, when the printer is marked, when the file is marked it opens the “save” dialog, I enter a file name but no file is been produced and no error message. I use Ubuntu 14.04 LibreOffice 5.0 and the database is a remote MYSQL database connected via Base local file. Local databases are not working as well. I have seen this problem reported 2 years ago but I did not find any fix our solution. Thank you Hanan
I have tried the same procedure in adjacent Windows XP machine with Libreoffice 4.3 with the same database and I get the labels printed.
the workaround is:killing and Restarting soffice.bin after saving the template as odt. see: https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/43349/print-label-merge-fail/?answer=57322#post-id-57322
I have experienced the same problem or very similar problem in Libre Office 5.0.0.5 running on Linux Mint Raphaela (17.2). I had a database (created in Base from a spreadsheet file) with 24 name and address records in it which were to be printed on an Avery label template (A4 J8165) using 8 per page. When the print dialog was first run, no labels at all were printed. Using the " killall soffice.bin" workaround after saving the file and then reopening the file after killing the process somehow allowed the last 8 of the 24 records selected to be printed out correctly but the first 16 records just disappeared. Repeating the procedure and then selecting the first 8 records again produced no output as did repeating it with the second set of 8 records. I am running the openjdk-7-jre on the above system. Not a printer problem as I successfully print multiple page documents from LibreOffice all the time. The whole mail merge approach seems to be problematical as the merged document does not appear to be produced before printing so one is never sure where the problem lies - in the creation of the merge or the printing of it. This appears to have been a long standing bug on Ubuntu systems looking back through previous bug reports.
@Hanan, David : just so I understand correctly : these problems only occur with the distrib provided versions of LibreOffice ? Have either of you tried with a current TDF-provided build of LibreOffice ? If it works in the official TDF versions, then the problem is with the the distrib provided packages.
Hello Alex I did not try other distros, but I have seen old posts about this problem. I can try it in a few weeks with the current TDF provided distro, when I get back to work.
Dear Bug Submitter, This bug has been in NEEDINFO status with no change for at least 6 months. Please provide the requested information as soon as possible and mark the bug as UNCONFIRMED. Due to regular bug tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDINFO status with no change in 30 days the QA team will close the bug as INVALID due to lack of needed information. For more information about our NEEDINFO policy please read the wiki located here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bugzilla/Fields/Status/NEEDINFO If you have already provided the requested information, please mark the bug as UNCONFIRMED so that the QA team knows that the bug is ready to be confirmed. Thank you for helping us make LibreOffice even better for everyone! Warm Regards, QA Team Sun, 11 Sep 2016 12:29:16 +0200
Dear Bug Submitter, Please read this message in its entirety before proceeding. Your bug report is being closed as INSUFFICIENTDATA due to inactivity and a lack of information which is needed in order to accurately reproduce and confirm the problem. We encourage you to retest your bug against the latest release. If the issue is still present in the latest stable release, we need the following information (please ignore any that you've already provided): a) Provide details of your system including your operating system and the latest version of LibreOffice that you have confirmed the bug to be present b) Provide easy to reproduce steps – the simpler the better c) Provide any test case(s) which will help us confirm the problem d) Provide screenshots of the problem if you think it might help e) Read all comments and provide any requested information Once all of this is done, please set the bug back to UNCONFIRMED and we will attempt to reproduce the issue. Please do not: a) respond via email b) update the version field in the bug or any of the other details on the top section of our bug tracker Warm Regards, QA Team MassPing-NeedInfo-20161010