Issue 93671 - Data Source Window
Summary: Data Source Window
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOO300m5
Hardware: PC (x86_64) Linux, all
: P3 Trivial with 2 votes (vote)
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Reported: 2008-09-09 12:14 UTC by dan_lewis
Modified: 2013-01-29 21:52 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: DEFECT
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2008-09-09 18:22 UTC, joerg.skottke 		no flags Details
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Description dan_lewis 2008-09-09 12:14:57 UTC 
Debian OOo 3.0 RC1 on amd64. When I use F4 or otherwise try to open the Data
Source Window, an area of the OOo window opens, but there is nothing there. No
data, no text, only a gray area.
Comment 1 Olaf Felka 2008-09-09 12:21:43 UTC 
@ jsk: Please have a look.
Comment 2 joerg.skottke 2008-09-09 18:08:24 UTC 
Checking...
Comment 3 joerg.skottke 2008-09-09 18:22:52 UTC 
Created attachment 56355 [details]
Datasource window pretty empty
Comment 4 joerg.skottke 2008-09-09 18:23:31 UTC 
I believe datasources are more MSC-like. Reassign.
Comment 5 dan_lewis 2008-09-09 20:25:41 UTC 
Sorry, but there does not seem to be a problem now. Details: First clean
installed Ubuntu 8.04 amd64 which contains their version of 2.4.1. Installed OOo
Beta2 without removing Ubuntu's version of OOo using dpkg. (Beta2 did not have
the desktop installation folder.) While I could see my registered databases
using Beta2, I could not access them. This morning I installed 3.0 RC1 over the
Beta2 version. Nothing in the data source window. Also installed the latest
language package because of a spelling problem. Used Synaptic to remove all
references to OOo: Ubuntu's version as well as 3.0 RC1. Installed 3.0 RC1.
Registered 10 databases using Tools>Options>OpenOffice.org Base>Databases. I can
now access all tables and queries from the Data Source window. So far, it
appears to be working as it should.
Comment 6 doof 2008-09-13 15:03:02 UTC 
I apologize if my comments get posted twice: I don't see that they were appended
so I try again.

I have the same issue, but on Windows XP/SP2 and a Compaq EVO desktop with
2.66GHz P4, accessing .odt & .ods files on a 2G Memorex flash thumbdrive.

Happens in both 2.4 & 3.0b on this home machine, but hasn't yet on the similarly
equipped Dell desktop in my office. (I misidentified as an Opteron in the
earlier post; it's an Optiplex, 600 series, as I dimly recall.)

I followed my own suggestion and un/reinstalled 3.0b and success, I could then,
again, both see my databases/data sources and access them on the thumbdrive.

Unfortunately, following my habit, I created the problem again (so will have to
reinstall yet again). "What I think I did" was Insert - Fields - Other, then
Browse to find a database, BUT seeing a database entry (.odb) there which I
didn't particularly think useful anymore, I DELETED it from that spot by
Right-click - Delete and then went on to find and load my newer database.

I think doing it that way may have fouled up OOo's ability to track what was
going on because once again I can see the databases I've added but not see or
access their list of tables.

I am a real,
doof