Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 18831
Import from OO spreadsheet and other external sources to datasource
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:42:49 UTC
It would be very usefull to have an import function so that you can import data from a spreadsheet to a datasource. Import from other sources like text ascii text files would also be helpfull. Arne
for the spreadsheets: open the spreadsheet in Calc, mark the data range in question, and drag'n'drop it onto the tables container of the data source where you want it to import ...
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confirming as valid RFE (which doesn't mean anything so far :), and assigning to user experience team for evaluation. Note that you can always create a data source for the external data in question, and copy'n'paste (or drag'n'drop) the data to the target data source. Adjusting priority.
I stubled on this one for a while and finally found out how to do this from this issue. New users who are test-driving OOO Base will get rather dissed since there is absolutely no documentation in the helps on how to use this cool drag`n`drop feature. I strongly suggest wording a nice SOP on how to import into OOO Base from text files and spreadsheets using this functionality. Please write the SOP in such a way such that help indexes are intuitive. Thanks for all the great work! [:.JsD.:]
In Base, there should be an import utility like that provided in MS Access. This is especially useful when trying to convert a large set of ASCII-based data into a HSQL DB without having to cut it up, import it into Calc, convert it, etc. It would be great if one could select the type of DB table format and also assign column types.
it looks like a duplicates from issue 64093
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".