| Summary: | Can't MailMerge Against Selected Records | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Eli Wapniarski <eli> |
| Component: | openoffice.org | Assignee: | Caolan McNamara <caolanm> |
| Status: | CLOSED UPSTREAM | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 10 | CC: | caolanm, dtardon, jnavrati |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2009-02-23 16:02:53 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Eli Wapniarski
2009-02-20 20:33:55 UTC
dtardon->eli: I don't quite understand what you mean by that. If you want to use fields specific to your database in the document, you can always do it in step 6 of the mail merge wizard: 1. Click on Edit Document... 2. Insert->Fields->Other... 3. Go to tab Database 4. Select Type 'Mail merge fields' 5. Now you can see (and use) all available fields under 'Database selection' I don't mean fields, I mean records. If I have a select number or records scattered througout the database, under so52 I am able to select records (10, 20, 100 etc) click on form letter and then I would have an option to be able to mailmerge to the selected records. I can't do that under OpenOffice.org. I can filter the records. but filtering lets say 100 records could be quite daunting. dtardon->eli: You can always create specialized address list in Base beforehand. That provides a fine temporary workaround. But it really isn't user friendly is it? dtardon->eli: There is Edit... button in the Select Address List... dialog, which, according to help, should enable you to edit the current address list; I think it's exactly what you want. Unfortunately, this button is always disabled (at least, it was disabled during all my tests). Actually for me it works and I can then create filters. However, try creating filters around a random data set. Lets say 10 or 20 or 100. Like I said. Its not very user friendly. Re #5, I believe that's a problem with "flat" address books, patch filed upstream and checked into rawhide + F10 for that (http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=99541) Re selecting records, the old mail merge is still there actually, you can retrieve it from tools->customize and bring it back into the menus. But it doesn't email mail-merge. In that dialog it is possible to select entries, and it would be more useful to allow that in the current dialog as well. Moved upstream as http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=99543 Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. |