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Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
| Summary: | MailMerge question by printing should be able to reset or configurable | ||
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| Product: | Writer | Reporter: | kami911 |
| Component: | printing | Assignee: | Oliver Specht <os_ooo> |
| Status: | CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE | QA Contact: | issues@sw <issues> |
| Severity: | Trivial | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | andre.schnabel, baumux, chris_mux, chrlutz, cno, h.ilter, issues, Mathias_Bauer, mnagashree, mux2005, prooobo-1x_work |
| Version: | 680m116 | Keywords: | oooqa |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Issue Type: | DEFECT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- |
| Developer Difficulty: | --- | ||
| Issue Depends on: | 56982 | ||
| Issue Blocks: | |||
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Description
kami911
2005-07-13 18:37:42 UTC
Reassigned to HI. HI->OS: Please comment. andreschnabel->kami_: This behaviour is (more or less) as designed. You can easiliy select and print the data of your letter, if you display the data source before printing. (Just press <F4> or go through view - data sources). The only thing, the warning dialogue does is to diplay those data sources. If the warning dialogue is disabled, it cannot show the data sources. Just display it before printing. so I'm closing worksforme. If you don't agree, feel free to reopen the issue closing I think the F4 trick is doesn't work. I tried it. But I may misinterpret something. You said This behaviour was (more or less) as designed. What was the original design rule? Could you point me a file? How can I set back thjis option again? I tried it to couple times, but the data soure viewing doesn't means to printig the desired field replaced with data method. So i would like to reopen it, please talk about it. comig back to this agein .. and sorry for the delay. kami_: I gave the wrong hint. Mail Merge functionality cannot be accessed from File - Print. It's unfortunately well - hidden, as you need to add a new button to one of the tool bars: - Go to Tools - customize; toolbars - select Toolbar Standard in the drop down list - klick on Add... - in category "Documents" look for "Mail Merge" (not Meil Merge Wizard) and Add it to the toolbar. - close the dialoges YOu would now be able to start a mail merge by pressing this button, the same way as it would be startet after the warning. ---- I'll close this issue and file a new one for the warnings (optin to re-enable warnings) closing (new issue filed : see Issue 56982) Sorry but I have to reopen! This workaround is acceptable, but not perfect. I glad to see the new issue about reenable, but I have to explain why I have reopened this issue: "Do not show warning again" like options good for save the selected option. This panel in OOo does not save the the selected option, just remember to does not show this dialog. It's a bug. In my case: I selected Yes (I would like to print fields with my rows) then I selected "Do not show warning again". Next time the correct behavior would be the OOo prints fields with my rows, because selected yes, but without this dialog. The one usually wants print fileds with his own data -- that is why it is a mail merge... But OOo will never do that if I check "Do not show warning again"... It must be a bug... Can we talk about it? *** Issue 59526 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** Summary changed from "Labels and envelope field substitution defect" Can you confirm it? And finish it for 2.0.3, 2.0.4? Please! The information whether the dialog appears is in the file "writer.xcu" in the directory "OpenOffice.org2\user\registry\data\org\openoffice\Office". There is a part "PrintOutput" with "AskforMerge". There replace "false" with "true". So may I have to request an option in Writer.xcu (and on UI) that has "Merge" parameter? When "AskforMerge" = "false" then looks "Merge" parameter if "Merge" = "true" then the apps replace the filds with they own value if it is false then prints filednames. Another user has same problem on our (hu) support list... I just want to say that I had exactly the same problem like kami_ and it took me really long to figure out what was wrong (reading the help files, Internet search, wanting to submit an OOo issue, finding this report). It was really frustrating and I think you really should redesign OOo in this respect: - remember selected options - add an option to re-enable warnings Can you implement it in 2.0.4? I also was confused for I aparently checked this box times ago. Trying to print labels I assumed having found an os specific bug. It worked for the windows os driving supporter on the german users list. I would have looked for activating this feature again in the options -> general printing section. This is really anoying and time consuming bug. It is a bug, for there ist a gui option for deactivating an important feature but no gui option for activating again. Friedrich *** Issue 51906 has been confirmed by votes. *** *** Issue 73382 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** *** Issue 65071 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** *** Issue 73382 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** Also was hit by this problem and if you haven't used form letters before, it hits you dramatically: I just didn't know, that this message box is a shortcut/whatever for pressing F4. So in my opinion this bug should be fixed by extending the text of the message box with a sentence like this "Most probably you want to press F4 and check out the data source pane". Low hanging fruit I'd say. *** Issue 76562 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** Hi, I'm the one from the most recent duplicate (apologies). What I don't see clearly explained in this issue, is that the single option set, affects all letters, labels, envelopes. It's a big warning that I give to all people I help with OOo: don't touch that check box ... The hint from André (extra button Mail Merge) makes more clear that the option is a legacy from OOo 1.x, IMO, where that button was in the menu Tools. mba: could you review this issue? I got many notification if the user check that checkbox. No way back except editing user config files. For workaround we should hide that stupid checkbox. But the better option to reenable warnings (selectable or at least all) described here: i56982 Having a single option to reactivate every warning that has been switched off is too much (IMHO). In case we think about the "reactivate all warnings" box instead: wouldn't that make this issue a duplicate? mba: I didn't explain it in the last comment... We need an option to reset these dialogbox described in i56982... But MailMerge printing dialog has a bug. If you check the checkbox the dialog does not appear anymore. It would be somehow OK but it does not remind to the selected options. So that is why this issue should live. -- Ugly workaround to remove that checkbox. Better one to remember to the last selection when checked that box. -- Ok, you may are right if you said there was no depedency betwe these two issues. One questions: - Is clear what impact 'reactivate all warnings' has? In other words: how many settings I do want, can be touched by this? One remark: - Isn't the problem more than a warning, but a setting that affects all letters, labels, envelopes. For example: when I choose to save as .doc, I can have a warning, or not. But I still can choose to save as .odt or as .doc When someone, in his/her ignorance, has touched this checkbox, there's no choice, for non of the documents that include database fields. The only wanring involved is 'don't touch this checkbox' ;-) IMO it would be easiest and fastest to remove (hide) the checkbox. seems, as this option has been removed for OOo 2.3. So the user cannot turn off the Dialog anymore. The Dialog is always displayed (even if it has been switched off in a previously installation). So I think, we can set this to "worksforme". as the Dialog will always show up in OOo 2.3 I set to worksforme closed (verified in OOG680m1) Did you check the "Do not show warning again" checkbox? Please check the first post... Can you enable merging combine with "Do not show warning again" option ebabled? there is no such option in the dialog anymore (so there is no way to check "do not show this warning again") But I tried the following: - install OOo 2.2.1 - Print a document with database fields - enable "Do not show this warning again" when dialog pops up -> dialog does not show up anymore in OOo 2.2 - Update Installation to OOo 2.3. - Print document with database fields -> Question dialog shows up and I can switch to mail merge as nobody objected, I set this issue to worksforme Now I also seen it in 2.3 Dev. This is good news! Many thanks to the (for me unknown) contributor :-) I'll check tomorrow, I am very interested... The CheckBox has been removed due to the changes for issue 76853 So this improvment will be available in 2.3? I have tested in m225 and looks ok. In my opinion this is enough for us, however this solution is no so elegat than requsted in the summary. In my opinion this is NOT WORKSFORME but FIXED... Checked on EIS: integrated: m220, release: OOo 2.3 |