https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=10222
cwscott <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #9 from cwscott <[email protected]> --- The comment, https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=10222#c7 Comment 7 ace_dent 2008-05-16 02:39:01 UTC requests that somebody tests this problem with an updated version of OpenOffice. That request was made in 2008. 5 years ago. I recently came across exactly the same problem and decided to check the bug register. To my amazement this problem was first registered in 2002-11. Nearly 11 (ELEVEN) years ago! I am using OO 3.4.1. It looks really, really, bad when a bug as obvious as this stays unresolved for 11 years. While I am about it let me explain why I found the bug, in the hopes that some other related bugs/feature requests can be directed to the correct place. Where I live there is a need for a very simple data collection tool which it seems OO already has 95% (if not more) of the capability of providing. Basically what is needed is a digital read-only question and answer (Q+A) document in which the answer fields are initially blank, editable, growable, text boxes into which respondents can type their answers. There could be a number of ways of saving this document/data: the whole document, read-only questions and respondent edited answers, could be saved together in a read+copy-only PDF (perhaps with a predefined filename derived in a systematic way with timestamps from the base Q+A filename); alternatively the answers alone could be saved in a structured format such as XML, which could subsequently be used to allow the data to be brought into a database or even, simply, into a table in an ODT document. Basically the result of the digital Q+A session should be simply and conveniently savable on a local disk in a non-editable form which can subsequently be emailed to an appropriate destination for analysis. The creation of the base read-only Q+A document, edit protected with a password, and with unprotected editable response fields, is fully provided for by my current version of OO, 3.4.1 (except for the current bug, that is). What is obviously missing at the moment is any simple and obvious ways to save the respondents replies (there are workarounds, but they are very clumsy, and go completely against the idea of a tool for reliably collecting replies from respondents who are completely untutored in OO, and basically just know how to read the questions and type straightforward text replies). Where within Bugzilla should I direct my ideas on this matter? regards, Chris Scott -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are the assignee for the bug.
