Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 21859
Limited characters in memo field in dBase files
Last modified: 2006-05-31 14:29:06 UTC
I have discovered that when I import a dBase file that I can certainly get the data connected to a data source. But the connection will not recognize memo fields as being just that memo fields. It goes to about 50 or so characters & no more. The steps of import are to use the standard tabs in sequence within Data Sources dialog, & that doesn't work. I tried creating a new table scheme on the Tables tab, via the New Table Design button after I found that the Edit Table button also didn't enable this. It seems, therefore, that this is a bug, & requires some work. Since dBase is the only native way without using an outside database to connect without another package in a read/write way that I know of, (only that I know of), within OpenOffice, this would be a pretty important thing to fix. Anyone using OpenOffice as a contact manager or for notes on invoices or other things, as a quick desktop utility would find this to be pretty important, pretty fast. I would suggest that this needs to be raised on the priority stack, to make it work.
Hi, I don't get you. Please provide a step-by-step description what your problem is and how I can reproduce this. May be you can attach the dbf file with make the problem. Thanks & Bye Marc
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Hi all, no response from submitter for a long long time. I will close this as invalid. However fell free to reopen this issue if it still occurr. If you reopen this issue please provide a step-by-step description how I can reproduce this issue. Bye Marc
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