I now have a clearer Idea of what (at least in my case) went wrong, and it is not related to "Next record" being broken, but to the mail merge assistant.
I was fooled by my assumption of the merge mail assistant producing wysiwyg output in step 6, where it lets you check the contents of the fields inside your merging template document. The assistant does fill fields with data, but does not recognize the next record field correctly, as can be seen in the attached example files. What I did was stop here, as the document was clearly not looking as I intended it to. That led me to the idea that I needed to change sth. in the document to fix the problem. Had I printed it, everything would have looked correctly. I do think, that the program should provide a way to inform the user of this problem, either by a note in the documentation or by indicating it somewhere in the GUI/assistant. IMHO best would be to change the assistant and make it recognize the Next record field better. ** Attachment added: "TestMergeMailFiles.tar.gz" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1217912/+attachment/4551020/+files/TestMergeMailFiles.tar.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1217912 Title: next record broken Status in libreoffice package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: 1) I have a file filing-lables.ods with one column and 31 rows. The first record contains the field name and the content is "label" 2)LibreOfficeBase > Connect to an existing database > Spreadsheet > next 3) Location filing-labels.ods Next 4) Yes, register the database for me, Open the database for editing > Finish 5) Save filing-labels.odb > Save, I now have a Table "Sheet1" which when opened has the contents of the 30 rows with the label "label" 6) File > New > Labels Database - filing-labels Table sheet 1 Database field "label" <= 7) Format Avery Letter Size 5160 Address 8) Options Entire page. Synchronize contents, Printer - my default printer 9) Insert fields, Other, Mail merge fields, "label" 10) Insert fields, Other, Next Record 11) Synchronize Labels - they all say "label Step 10 is broken To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1217912/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
