https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157408
Bug ID: 157408
Summary: LibreOffice - Writer crashed when two databases
(ods-files) are involved in one serial-letter.
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.5.6.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
OS: Windows (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
Im a teacher and I use serial letters (form letter) to print the achieved
points per excercise for each student. Each serial letter (written with
LO-Writer) has a similar structure. In the process of creating a new serial
letter, I always copy an old serial letter. This process is important to save
time, but in my opinion this is also the cause of the crash.
Afterwards I click (in german) "Einfügen --> Feldbefehl --> weitere
Feldbefehle" and then "Datenbank --> Seriendruck-Feld" to connect the odt-file
with the database of the ods-file. Usually LO-Writer shows me in the list of
databases the ods-file, but does not offer me to unfold the database, so that I
can select a table/column of the ods-file. Continueing in LO-Writer leads to a
crash.
After some time I found a solution. First you have to delete ALL OLD REFERENCES
in the serial-letter. After doing so, the connection to the new ods-file
succeeds and there are no more crashes. This is not intuitive and should not be
the way how the user should act.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Copy on old ODT-file (and rename it) which was a serial letter with
references to an old ODS-file.
2. Leave old column-references in the ODT-file
3. Connect the (new) ODT-file to another ODS-file.
4. Now the imported database does not offer you unfolding und double clicking
it or importing again and again often leads to a crash.
Actual Results:
The program crashes. I thing because there is a mixture of references. The
programm is connected to a nrw ods file, but in the odt-file there are
references to columns of an old ods-file.
Expected Results:
When the user connects to a new ods-file (databse), it should delete all old
references to the old ods-file. It should also open a prompt and tell the user,
that that will happen.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: Yes
Additional Info:
This bug is very old. I hoped since many years this will be solved but today a
installed the newest version and it did still exist so I decided to report the
bug.
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