[libreoffice-users] Re: How to change Writer form letter database connection

Le 11/10/2016 à 19:45, Gary Dale a écrit :

Hi Gary,

> In fact, I can't think of a reason for the current behaviour. Why should
> switching data sources do that instead of the more sensible behaviour of
> picking up the data from fields with the same name in the new data source?

Being cynical, no doubt because that would actually be a useful and
intuitive behaviour, at least insofar as the field names and field data
types are the same, and LO is still in many aspects not very intuitive
for the user, especially with stuff like database mailmerge.

What you are looking for could be made the subject of a bug request for
enhancement. From my point of view as a QAer, I'd find that a valid
request (if it hasn't already been made - I haven't checked).


Note that the behaviour with regard to mailmerge documents changed
recently-ish from that originally present in previous iterations of LO.
Previously, the Writer document which included field references only
linked via a reference to the datasource. Nowadays, the Writer document
includes the datasource at least where that datasource is a spreadsheet,
text or CSV file (or at least, that is my understanding of it). This
might be why the change you effected didn't show up until you re-opened
the document. There is still some kind of inconsisten weirdness in there
in some cases with regard to older Writer documents that were made
before the change to integrate the datasource, but I haven't managed to
nail it down yet. Perhaps someone else has.


Alex






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