Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 77264
RPT: OOo should inform user when report designer is not available
Last modified: 2007-06-14 10:14:19 UTC
OOo is silent when when a user attempts to open Report Designer produced report embedded in a base file on an OOo installation without the extension being installed, or disabled. Steps to reproduce: Disable the Report Designer extension in your installation using Extension Manger. Completely close OOo. Download the attached Base file, ExerciseLog_RPT. Open the file with OOo Switch to the Reports section and double click on the report Designer_1. Nothing happens! This is a basic usability flaw - Let's say the suer had just received the file from another person via email and was not aware of the Report Desginer extension. ( it was not installed by his network admin person perhaps ) Most likely the user believes the report should have run - trys again to run it, fails. No message. He tries to run either of the other two - voila, no problem. Right now the user believes the base file is somehow corrupt, which it is not and if the report Designer_1 was the only thing in the file that he really cared about anyway is at a loss for what to do next. OOo should open a warning box telling the user why the report does not run, and that installing Report Designer Extension will allow it to do so.
Created attachment 45065 [details] Example database
targeting to OOo 2.x
Please take care for this one. Thanks.
duplicate *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 77259 ***
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