https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155633
ajlittoz <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |CLOSED --- Comment #2 from ajlittoz <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Stéphane Guillou (stragu) from comment #1) > Hi ajlittoz > Unfortunately, this would be something to ask about on Ask.LibreOffice, not > here. > As this isn't a report about a bug or enhancement request, I'm closing as > "invalid". I feared an answer like this one. As I mention, this information request stems from a question on AskLO https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/writer-how-to-use-a-spreadsheet-as-bibliographic-database/92049 which I asked following a discussion on private mail from a user requesting advice on using a spreadsheet as bibliography source. Answers to this day don't solve the issue. It is likely that the key is too "technical" (= buried deep in the source code) for the majority of users. I consider myself as an expert in Writer usage but I never read a line of code. So, I decided to file this "information request" in the hope that some developer could give me some light. Let's sum up the problem: - I can have the spreadsheet recognised as a bibliography DB (it shows up in Tools>Bibliography Database) - I can display the bibliography and edit its entries (then saved in the document) - I _CANNOT_ insert bibliography entries because Insert>TOC & Indexes>Bibliography Entry does not recognise the data source (its list of entries in the menu is empty) Supposing that a spreadsheet was not a correct source, I turned it into a dBase DB. Once again this DB is recognised by Tools>Bibliography Database but Insert>TOC & Indexes>Bibliography Entry still shows an empty menu. In the end, it turns out that I can't substitute any custom datasource for the built-in bibliography. It is likely that I am missing some obvious point. I see in the user profile that the built-in bibliography has many ancillary files associated with it. I have of course no such files in the directory of my custom bibliography. Is this the cause of the issue? The official documentation has nothing about custom bibliography sources (or I skipped over it). I can turn this report into a bug: menu to choose a bibliography entry is empty with a custom bibliography database. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
