[libreoffice-users] Re: Serial Letters

Am 16.10.2012 09:31, Heinrich Stoellinger wrote:
> Hello,
> A couple of versions ago of LO I mentioned that I have a problem
> with serial letters using Writer and MySQL-Views through Base.
> When printing a letter "populated" with database-view variables
> from just ONE tuple (=record) everything is fine. Unfortunately,
> when selecting MORE than one tuple for printing, various different
> content of the letter gets left out in all letters following the
> first on.
> This might be "fixed" text (i.e. NOT from the db), graphics, but also
> variables that should be included from the database.
> Has anybody had the same experience?
> I am now at LO 3.6.3-rc1 under Linux-Mint-Maya and use the native
> MySQL-connector, but the same problem was present in earlier, stable
> releases of both LO and MySQL (using a JDBC or ODBC connection).
> When having to print - say - 150 letters, the fact that at present
> I would have to print EVERY letter individually is unacceptable.
> It certainly would prevent using LO in a business context!
> I wonder whether anybody else has had the same experience.
> Regards
> Heinz
> -- 

Can you rewrite the view as a native SQL query?

If you can not tell us any bug report number, this bug may never be
fixed because no developer with ever take notice of the problem.



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