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Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
| Summary: | Hidden Paragraphs (and Hidden / Conditional Text) Do Not Work With Multiple Records - Only Test For Final Record On Page And Then Apply To All | ||
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| Product: | Writer | Reporter: | phillg <phill.gillespie> |
| Component: | code | Assignee: | Oliver Specht <os_ooo> |
| Status: | CLOSED FIXED | QA Contact: | issues@sw <issues> |
| Severity: | Trivial | ||
| Priority: | P3 | CC: | helge.kraak, issues |
| Version: | 680m129 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Issue Type: | DEFECT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- |
| Developer Difficulty: | --- | ||
| Issue Depends on: | |||
| Issue Blocks: | 36696 | ||
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Description
phillg
2005-10-18 12:02:18 UTC
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Example One, address2 incorretly being hidden for record one
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Example One when "Show Hidden Paragraphs" is on, address2 is clearly hidden incorrectly
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Example Two, address2 is incorrectly printed for record two even though it is null
Reassigned to ES. Please add a sample document reflecting the description. . Adding example doc Created attachment 30663 [details]
Sample doc as requested
Confirmed in final 2.0 release. I cannot reproduce it (m135 on Linux) using the Biblio DB, like this: Bibliography.biblio.Identifier Hidden.ParagraphBibliography.biblio.Author Bibliography.biblio.Publisher Next Record: Bibliography.biblio Bibliography.biblio.Identifier Hidden.ParagraphBibliography.biblio.Author Bibliography.biblio.Publisher where Hidden.Paragraph is: not([Author]) I deleted Author for one of the record and merged records like this Test 1: Rec 1 (empty Author) Rec 2 (Author filled) Test 1: Rec 1 (Author filled) Rec 2 (empty Author) So it's the same structure as your document. In all tests botth Hidden.Paragraph fields work fine when the Author field is empty. Questions: 1) do you have switch "View - Hidden.Paragraphs"? 2) could you please do the same test with the bibliography database? The structre of a database is: Database.Table.Field But your DB is: Members.Licensing.web2.Address2 So a too long structure. I suspect that this may lead to the described problem. 1. I don't have Show Hidden Paragraphs on, although I briefly turned it on for the "exmaple-one-with-show-hidden-paragraphs-on.jpg" to demonstrate that the field is correctly being filled, it's the DB: The DB I was connecting to is MySQL via ODBC. The latest drivers (v3) use pass "database name . table name" back to OOo and are the only ones reccomended by the guys at DBA. The Table is "Licensing.web2" and as the hidden paragraphs are resolving correctly for the last record on the page (or if there is only one), this can't really be the cause. Windows: Confirmed the same problem under Windows XP and Pavel's first en-GB build of 2.0.0. Changing platform to All. 2. Bibilo tests done, same incorrect results as my previous test. Created the docs as requested, screen shots attached and the file I used. Test 1 (author empty) looks ok for a second and then the hidden paragraphs kick in an make record one's author appear even though it is blank. Test 2 (author filled) looks good too for a second with record one's author displayed but then it disappears a second after the merge. Trying to get a video of this... Created attachment 30912 [details]
Result of Test 1 - empty author is shown
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Result of Test 2 - author field is hidden despite not being empty
es, I can reproduce a problem (same or related problem?) using the Bibliography biblio table. I am actually using labels but after creating them I removed the Line Feeds and replaced with Paragraph Breaks before adding the Hidden Paragraph field then Synchronized. My label looks like this <Identifier> <Address><Hidden Paragraph with condition Not(Address)> <Author> In the biblio table I added an address in the Address field for records 1 & 3. View > Hidden Paragraphs and View > Field Names were turn off. DIFFERENTING TESTING RESULTS: If I do F4, select some records (1-4) and click the Data to Fields icon I get the correct results. I can then click the Print icon, answer “no†to the “form letter†question, and the labels will print correctly. This little test makes one think thing are working correctly but the more practical test below fails. If I click the Print icon, answer “yes†to the “form letter†query, select the same records I did before (1-4) then all Address lines are hidden while Identifier and Author lines are printed. I saved my test file in .odt format, opened it in OOo1.1.5, added addresses in its biblio table for records 1 & 3 and conducted the same tests. Both worked correctly. Using OOo2 final on Windows 98 SE. I will upload my test file. Created attachment 30922 [details]
Attaching test file.
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Attaching test file.
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Attaching test file.
Sorry about the muliple uploads but I recieved no possitive feedback. All are the same file. Just tried it on Pavel's m136 builds and it does the same incorrect behavouir (only the last hidden paragraph is tested, the result applied to all instances of it). ES: Are you still having trouble reproducing it? So far this is four different linux machines with four differnet builds and the official release for XP that it is reproducable on. Why don't you upload the document you created and said it works for and we can test that. I'm going to suggest that this is a blocker for 2.0.1 - as I've previously said the new "hide blank lines" feature for labels would just create havoc if this isn't fixed. jcvigor: It seems you are experiencing the same bug. When you do "data to text" and print just that screen it works as expected. However if you do "File > Print > Yes make a form letter" the data goes to the fields (as you do "show hidden paragraphs" and see the filled in field) but as the print command is initiated the hidden paragraphs then mess up the page. I take it the final line you had was not supposed to have an address on it (hence it hid all addresses). Adding video of printing procedure, shows incorrectly hidden line when you enable "Show Hidden Paragraphs", then disappears when you untick that option. Adding camera capture (sorry!) of the actual seconds after printing. You can clearly see the top record has three lines initially (correct) and then it suddenly disappears to only two (after the hidden paragraphs have kicked in). "Show hidden paragraphs" was not enable for either of these captures. Created attachment 31046 [details]
Camera capture of the moments after printing (doc is fine then incorrect)
Okay, I can't attach the screen capture avi as it is too big, instead you can download it from here http://www.phillg.com/ooo2.avi ES->OS: Please have a look at ooo2.avi. Sum up: when merging fields manually (for records 2 & 3), the hidden paragraph not([Bibliography.biblio.Author]) works correctly for record 2 = Author is visible. Buit when using the merge print wizard the author field disappears for record 2 although it is not empty. Regression compared to OOo 1.1.5 This also happens for Hidden Text and Conditional Text, altering summary to reflect this If I may add my bit to the confusion. Hidden paragraphs work fine for me as long as I'm merging and printing the entire stream of merged documents to the printer. However, if I merge to files, where each page merged is a .sxw file, hidden paragraphs are ignored if there are multiple records. The curious thing is that if you read the document into OO, it looks correct on the screen, but when the document is printed, as soon as you answer the "is this a mailmerge?" question, the hidden paragraph triggers even though there is data in the field. If only a single record is merged, then all works fine. My production data is too large for 2.0.0 to handle (Issue 56828), I'll try to cull down a test case if you're interested. I've had an email from Daniel J McDonlad but I haven't had time to verify the tests he did so I'll reproduce it here to see if anyone else can double check it: I fought with conditional paragraphs for a day, and reproduced your problem. The work-around is to only use numeric data for the conditional statements - text comparisons don't seem to function. I hope that will help someone diagnose the problem. I'm running 2.0.0.cvs.20051030, which is the Mandriva 2006 released version. We will not finish this task in the 2.0.2 time frame -> retargetted to 2.0.3 Can somebody please confirm the status of this bug as we are approaching the freezes for 2.0.3. I still can't believe that OOo2 is unable to do labels and let you hide any blank lines. This is a serious issue that is affecting any serious office attempting to use OOo and what's more it's a regression from OOo1.1 and it works when you don't use the form wizard! In the printing process fields are updated again. This is probably the reason for the bug. In the merging process these update need to be skipped. I believe the final date for fixes for 2.0.3 has been pulled forward a week to 5th May. OS: Without wanting to pester you is there still a good chance you can fix this by this earlier deadline? Pretty please... I can help with QA on the bug if that's any use. Fixed in cws os80 in sw/inc/printdata.hxx sw/source/ui/dbui/dbmgr.cxx sw/source/core/view/vprint.cxx additional change in sw/inc/dbmgr.hxx CWS os80 is not yet in any milestone build (checked m164) so I'm unable to do QA (sorry, I don't have the resources to build the suite). As soon as it is integrated I'll verify it, unless someone else beats me to it... Verified as fixed in os80 from milestone build 165 :-) closing ancient issues |