To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=77260 Issue #|77260 Summary|Absolute addressing considered harmful Component|Database access Version|1.0.0 Platform|Other URL| OS/Version|All Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|DEFECT Priority|P3 Subcomponent|none Assigned to|dbaneedsconfirm Reported by|khbkhb
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri May 11 20:50:35 +0000 2007 ------- I regret that I don't seem to have a visible "attach"ment" button, so the carefully cut down example does not appear here at this time. The use case is as follows. Given an existingg spreaddsheet with fairly elaborrate costing calculations, a writer document was constructed for a related family of proposals. Then the "new database" button was selected, I choose "existing database" type spreadsheet and then dragged the appropriate fields to the right spots in the writer document. This was on a Macintosh running NeoOffice 2.1 patch3, but I replicated the results with OpenOffice 2..1 as well. All was right with the world. However, iI work in a distributed group. So prior to "releasing" this lashup upon my group, I transferred the files over to a Solaris x86 sysetem (running SXDE, not that it seems to matter much) and StarOffice 8 update 5). On the solaris side, the database needed registration (hence the title, aboluute paths considered harmful, relative pathing would have been far handier) after registration, StarOffice8 PU5 *crashes* upon any and all attempts to work witth the database file. Hence I have labeled this a defect. I also moved the files to a Ubuntu 6.10 system which has OOO 2.0.4 i installed. While it doesn't crash, just registering the database fails to provide any useful value, as any attempt to access the database fails silently. I think there are two issues here: 1) Due to the lack of relative addressing, absolute adddresses are put into the database definition. This is unhelpful. I defer to the maintainers judgement whether that should be a separate RFE (I will happily enter itt if so desired). 2) Given that the absolute paths don't exist on the "client" systemss it would appear that there is both a lack of appropriate error checking /handling and a missing facility to fix "incorrect" paths. since this results in crashing on at least one platform, I think it is safe to call this a defect. As the issues are very tightly connected, I have filed them togehther. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
