Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 52629
Printing form letter dialog has no printer or printer settings options
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:40:21 UTC
Steps to reproduce: Create a doc with a database field in. Go to File and Print and a question pops up asking you if you want to print a form letter, click yes. In this form letter dialog there is no option to change the printer or printer settings. These basic features are present in OOo 1.1.x Confirmed in m114, m116, m118 and m121 on several Linux installs
Reassigned to HI.
HI->OS: The difference between 645 and 680: 645: The print dialog appears after the MailMerge dialog 680: The print will be executed after the MailMerge dialog The question is, is it intent or defect?
*** Issue 55504 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 56570 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 56977 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 57566 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
if this should be intended? What's the intention? :-)
JA: as this issue seems to be a regression it cannot be set to 'later'. Retargetted to 2.0.2
Yes, it was a problem with this. I work with HylaFAX on Server and i have multiple Fax Device and so i will chance the fax printer device. But the chance printer diaolg are missing. And so come the Serienfax out of the StandardPrinter. verry good.
*** Issue 58355 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
This was resolved as WORKSFORME under issue 45083, but I believe it is a loss of functionality. My invoices/estimates/letterheads etc. talk to an OOo spreadsheet for the address/salutation data. Some of the time I want to output a document to my printer, sometimes to a PDF printer and others to a fax, and being able to specify which printer in the dialogue was very handy in 1.1.x.
We will not finish this task in the 2.0.2 time frame -> retargetted to 3.0
this is a showstopper for most real professional office users. This is no problem for most home users, right. The loss of functionality for serail letters (which is a major task in professional offices) is huge. It's a petty to see this regession bug being retargetted again and again. All one can do is reccomend professional office users with a need for serial letter functionality to use OOo 1.1.x (or a different Office Suite)
Without trying to throw in a pointless "me too", I agree with maccy that this is an important loss of functionality for professional OOo users. Most days I have to work around this bug which is extremely frustrating and it will harm my efforts to push OOo to my business clients, all of which rely on smooth mail merging. Also this doesn't just affect OS Linux as set, as I see the same on Windows.
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As I wrote, we will not finish the fix for this issue in time because we have more important things to do. This is something we can't change. There is also a possible workaround to circumvent the problem. Obviously there is some interest in getting this fixed so 2.0.3 seems appropriate to me.
mba wrote: "Obviously there is some interest in getting this fixed". How can this 'obvious' intrest better be shown than with 5 duplicates of this issue under different numbers and loads of comments? This IS an important loss of functionality and it IS a regression bug! AND it is a bug on Linux and Windows machines, as issue 55504 and 58355 showed. As long as the MailMergeAssistent doesn't have all the functionality that the normal MailMerge- dialogue offers one has to use the normal un-assisted way. And to re-insert a dialogue that is present in all sorts of other different contexts and that existed in the prior version shouldn't be so tremendously time-consuming, should it? Could it be that OOo/SUN underestimates the extend of mailmerge usage in professional/educational offices?
Sorry, I don't understand the rant. I agreed that there is interest and especially the duplicates made me think that. I can't see a contradiction to your opinion. For this reason I changed the target to 2.0.3. As I wrote, 2.0.2 is impossible because we will not be able to fix the problem in the given time frame.
Issue 25686 made the printing asynchronous. This prevented the printer settings dialog. Fixed in cws os80 in sw/source/ui/dbui/dbmgr.cxx
Reassigned for verification re-open issue and reassign to hi@openoffice.org
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reset resolution to FIXED
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Verified with cws os80 = ok
Still ok in 680m169