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 Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1217912 Title: next record broken To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1217912/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
