https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148832
Bug ID: 148832
Summary: File - Wizards - Address Data Source always overwrites
the system Addresses.odb
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.3.2.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
OS: Linux (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
I wanted to create mailing labels for ONE document from ONE unique spreadsheet
without disturbing my existing address data source. LibreOffice File - Wizards
- Address Data Source makes it look like you can embed an address book mapping
in a Writer document, but it always silently overwrites your existing
Addresses.odb in $HOME.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Delete or move away any existing $HOME/Address.odb file
2. File > New > Text Document
3. File > Wizards > Address Data Source
* Address Book Type : Other external data source
* Connection Settings > Settings
4. This brings up Create Address Data Source
* Advanced Properties > Database type: Spreadsheet.
* Point to the spreadsheet in Path to the spreadsheet document
5. Back to first wizard
* make Field Assignments to spreadsheet columns
* in Data Source Title
- check "Embed this address book definition into the current document"
- uncheck "Make this address book available to all modules in LibreOffice.
6. Click [Finish]
Actual Results:
There's a hint of the carnage to come at the bottom of one dialog, "The new
settings you make will overwrite your existing settings"
Sure enough, I now have a brand new separate $HOME/Addresses.odb ! The first
time I did this it blew away
Expected Results:
The wizard(s) make it seem as if you can define the address book data source
for a single document and embed that in it. You can't. I cannot figure out what
the two checkboxes in that final wizard step actually do.
There should be some prompt "About to overwrite your single system-wide
Addresses.odb file. Is that OK?" I actually wanted to keep my regular address
book, but LO silently overwrote it.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
OpenGL enabled: Yes
Additional Info:
The other screw-up is if I go on to try to use this new data source in the
current document, I have to re-enter the field mapping that I already set up. I
may file that separately.s
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