Issue 103045 - Mail merge increments footnotes numbering
Summary: Mail merge increments footnotes numbering
Status: REOPENED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: editing (show other issues)
Version: OOo 3.0.1
Hardware: Unknown Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
QA Contact: issues@sw
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Reported: 2009-06-23 19:34 UTC by jernst
Modified: 2017-05-20 10:44 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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sample merge document for testing (13.79 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2015-03-07 16:07 UTC, Joe Smith 		no flags Details
sample output from merge (43.48 KB, application/pdf)
2015-03-07 16:08 UTC, Joe Smith 		no flags Details
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Description jernst 2009-06-23 19:34:53 UTC 
To reproduce :
- make a mailmerge to 200 contacts with a document with one footnote numbered 1,

Results :
- the last contact will get a letter with one footnote numbered 200
Comment 1 eric.savary 2009-06-24 00:54:13 UTC 
Please check this in a current (now 3.1) and native (not from your Linux ditro
but from our site) version and report here.

Attach a spreadsheet with the 200 contacts and the corresponding merge odt document.

Screenshots and PDF of the results would also be usefull.

Feel free to reopen when you have this information.
Comment 2 eric.savary 2009-06-24 00:54:24 UTC 
closed
Comment 3 Joe Smith 2015-03-07 16:07:12 UTC 
Created attachment 84575 [details]
sample merge document for testing
Comment 4 Joe Smith 2015-03-07 16:07:41 UTC 
I've re-opened this issue, as it is easily reproducible with the current release:

OpenOffice 4.1.1  411m6(Build:9775)
Fedora Linux

Open the attached test document (it connects to the standard bibliography data source) and follow these steps:
1. File > Print … form letter? YES
2. Merge records: 1-3; choose some output: print or document (all in one)
3. Check the output documents:

Expected behavior:
The footnotes below should be numbered 1 & 2, for each merged document.

Actual behavior:
The footnote number is not reset for each merge pass, the footnote number keeps increasing: 1 & 2 then 3 & 4, then 5 & 6, …

NOTE:
The numbering is correct if the output goes into separate documents.

Sample output is also attached, from File > Print ... (to printer) as PDF
Comment 5 Joe Smith 2015-03-07 16:08:28 UTC 
Created attachment 84576 [details]
sample output from merge
Comment 6 Joe Smith 2015-03-07 16:09:48 UTC 
OO Community Forum thread:
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=75820
Comment 7 Joe Smith 2015-03-07 16:32:23 UTC 
Oops, I forgot to mention:

I tried Tools > Footnotes/Endnotes ... and set the numbering to "per page". No change in the merged numbering.

I added a chapter heading (Heading 1) and changed the footnote numbering to "per chapter". No change in the merged numbering.

However, performing the merge, to a single document, then opening that document and setting the footnote numbering "per page" was effective.

So if all the footnotes are on the same page, this can be a useful workaround.

If the notes are spread over more than one page, may be a top-level heading could be added (hidden or something) to get the numbering to reset.
Comment 8 Marcus 2017-05-20 10:44:13 UTC 
Reset the assignee to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".