Issue 12019 - Field codes shown in table that should be displayed as text
Summary: Field codes shown in table that should be displayed as text
Status: ACCEPTED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: 643
Hardware: PC All
: P4 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: oooqa, rfe_eval_ok
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-03-04 00:33 UTC by Unknown
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:38 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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MS Word document that shows bug with displaying tables (56.00 KB, application/octet-stream)
2003-03-04 00:34 UTC, Unknown 		no flags Details
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Description Unknown 2003-03-04 00:33:39 UTC 
I'll attach an MS Word document presumably authored in MS Word.  The third page
contains a table of values, some of which come from a database of some sort. 
Using Word these fields display as field values.  Using OpenOffice.org writer
643 or 1.01 under Linux, and 1.0 under Windows, the values are not displayed. 
Instead, what appear to be field codes are displayed, no matter if View / Fields
is selected or not (this does have an effect in modifying what is displayed, but
the user values are not displayed).

Thanks and best wishes,
Damon
Comment 1 Unknown 2003-03-04 00:34:57 UTC 
Created attachment 4970 [details]
MS Word document that shows bug with displaying tables
Comment 2 prgmgr 2003-06-17 00:58:21 UTC 
Damon, thank you for using and supporting OOo.

Duplicated on RH 9.0, OOo 1.0.3.1 & 1.1 Beta 2.
Duplicated on WinNT 4.0 SP6a, OOo 1.0.3.1.


Summary

Is this a bug or an enhancement request?

OOo is probably doing the right thing, since it doesn't have the
original data source that was used to merge the data into the table on
page 3.

However, it looks like MS Word is reading some sort of cache inside
the Word doc that contains the values inserted into the fields from
the last merge operation.

In Word, if you "Update Field" for any of the fields in the table on
page 3, you will get the same result as OOo since Word doesn't have
the original data source either.
Comment 3 h.ilter 2003-06-17 10:05:13 UTC 
Reassigned to MRU.
Comment 4 michael.ruess 2003-06-17 13:58:30 UTC 
This is an enhancement request.
As long as the database connection has VERY different handling in Word
and OO Writer, this will not be possible to solve by a little filter
fix (or hack).
For access to a database table it needs to be applied in OO's database
settings. The importer won't know the database and so there must be a
kind of automated process started, which checks the availability of
the database and than adds the database to OO's settings (with a
suitable name). These info's than have to be handed back to the import
filter.
Comment 5 bettina.haberer 2003-10-24 14:42:56 UTC 
Considered for 'Office later'.
Comment 6 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 14:56:26 UTC 
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".