[libreoffice-users] Re: Field names not being retained

A wrote:
> Interestingly, the field names seem to have changed seemingly for the
> better.  Whereas before it was inserting things something like
> filename.databasename.sheetname.fieldname, now I get "fieldname".
>
> Unfortunately, after running the mailmerge, it seems to have made the
> values in the first record (I only have one record currently) a
> permanent part of the fields.  For example in the fieldname "street
> name", it has "Elm St", where it should instead simply have "street
> name" making my .odt file useless as a mail merge document, so I'll have
> to go through it for the fifth time and change all the fields yet again.

Are you sure they're not still fields? I think after the mailmerge runs, 
the fields end up showing data from one of the entries rather than the 
field name, but if you re-run mailmerge they do still work as fields. 
You can see the field codes rather than the final data by setting Tools 
> Options > LibreOffice Writer > View > Field Codes.

This then shows the full databasename.tablename.fieldname code, which 
from your previous comment may not be completely ideal, but at least you 
can check that they are still fields and not static text. Also, fields 
are shown with a grey background, although I'm not sure if that's 
another option I've set some time in the past.

Mark.

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