Issue 70062

Summary: Showing actual web page instead of html table names in web data import
Product: Calc Reporter: vimalathithan <s.vimalathithan>
Component: open-importAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: CONFIRMED --- QA Contact:
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: issues
Version: OOo 2.0.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT Latest Confirmation in: ---
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example: web table import unusable for pages with many tables none

Description vimalathithan 2006-10-03 11:37:34 UTC 
When using the external data (insert->link to external data ), after entering 
the web page address only the html table names are visible. It will be easy to 
select the tables if the actual web page is shown and tick mark to select the 
tables,instead of table names alone. The same feature is avialable in 
microsoft excel 2003,(with actual web page)
Comment 1 vimalathithan 2006-10-03 11:41:00 UTC 
Created attachment 39521 [details]
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Comment 2 frank 2006-10-03 13:48:13 UTC 
So this is one for the requirements team
Comment 3 gleppert 2006-11-22 21:43:34 UTC 
Created attachment 40848 [details]
example: web table import unusable for pages with many tables
Comment 4 gleppert 2008-06-04 23:21:03 UTC 
Are there any plans to improve on web data import? Last activity on this bug is
a while ago....
Comment 5 gleppert 2009-04-06 08:40:41 UTC 
Here is a nice article describing how to cope with the existing implementation
in OpenOffice.org, if you like to import external data:
http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/newsite/?page_id=633