Issue 61443 - Conditions cannot be evaluated when field names contain spaces
Summary: Conditions cannot be evaluated when field names contain spaces
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Reported: 2006-01-31 18:41 UTC by peterhb
Modified: 2017-05-20 11:19 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Attachments
Sample address list data source (10.28 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
2006-01-31 18:43 UTC, peterhb
no flags Details
Label template with sectioned address fields (8.33 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2006-01-31 18:45 UTC, peterhb
no flags Details

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Description peterhb 2006-01-31 18:41:18 UTC
Using hidden sections to suppress null data fields in address labels, envelopes
and the like does not function correctly in that a redundant paragraph mark is
retained, or inserted, thus destroying the intended layout.

It is clear from the lists that users, including this one, expect a level of
functionality similar to that found elsewhere, where one ticks a box to suppress
blank fields. There seems to be a high WIBNI factor (Wouldn't It Be Nice If) for
this feature to be included; but if not, at least a fix for the bug would be
appreciated.
Comment 1 peterhb 2006-01-31 18:43:29 UTC
Created attachment 33746 [details]
Sample address list data source
Comment 2 peterhb 2006-01-31 18:45:33 UTC
Created attachment 33747 [details]
Label template with sectioned address fields
Comment 3 michael.ruess 2006-02-01 04:52:37 UTC
The conditions in the sections are entered wrongly. Do no put the identifiers in
quotes there. Instead of "county"=="" it should read county == ""
Comment 4 michael.ruess 2006-02-01 04:54:05 UTC
Closed.
Comment 5 peterhb 2006-02-01 16:54:19 UTC
The response suggests that analysis was somewhat superficial. One of the data
source headings, and hence one of the merge fields is a string, "Post Code",
containing a space character. If this string is not quoted the result is worse
than the redundant paragraph mark - the field is hidden whether or not there is
printable data!

It may be a design intention to prohibit space characters in spreadsheet column
headings, but I can find no such bar in the Help files, nor in any
documentation. It would be a strange restriction, but if intentional there
should be a very obvious statement to this effect that could not be missed by
any installer/user of OpenOffice.org.

An obvious workaround is to modify all data sources to eliminate spaces (and any
other prohibited characters), but promulgating this to all current users could
prove interesting.

Finally, the case of imported files in alien formats, e.g. MS Excel, needs to be
considered. Spaces are not an issue in column headings in those products.

Regards

Peter HB
Comment 6 michael.ruess 2006-02-17 07:08:46 UTC
MRU->OS: see the attached sample. The condition for the section "Post Code1"
could not be evaluated correctly, because the referring database filed name
contains a space character. As long as this is possible in such field name OO
Writer's conditions need to take are of this somehow.
Comment 7 Oliver Specht 2006-06-20 14:08:07 UTC
Target adjusted
Comment 8 peterhb 2007-12-01 17:21:42 UTC
This issue appears to have been resolved in OOo V2.3. Hidden paragraphs perform
the required "hiding" and there are no problems with spaces in data source fields.

Thanks for the fixing effort.
Comment 9 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:19:57 UTC
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".