Launchpad has imported 23 comments from the remote bug at http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=51904.
If you reply to an imported comment from within Launchpad, your comment will be sent to the remote bug automatically. Read more about Launchpad's inter-bugtracker facilities at https://help.launchpad.net/InterBugTracking. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2005-07-13T18:07:35+00:00 Andrew Ziem wrote: There should be a wizard to import tables from various data sources (e.g. .sxc, .xls, .csv, .dbf) to the new OOo Database component. For loosely defined data sources (spreadsheets), the wizard would clarify data types, column names, and the primary key. I suggest the feature be accessible from File menu->Import or File menu->Get external data. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2005-07-22T13:07:23+00:00 Marc-neumann wrote: Hi, I reassign this enhancement to the User Experience team for evaluating. Bye Marc Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2005-09-01T21:18:14+00:00 Andrew Ziem wrote: Here are some reasons how feature would help: 1. To change import properties such as following. All of these apply to simple formats such as CSV, but not all apply to more structude formats such as DBF. a. character set b. destination (new or existing table) c. column types (e.g. integer, date, currency) d. index e. fixed width or delimiter character (e.g. comma or tab) f. text qualifer (usually " with CSV) g. column types h. column index i. primary key 2. Import files larger than 65,536 lines (compared to copy from spreadsheet via clipboard) 3. Import multiple files as multiple tables into one Base file Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2005-10-17T02:27:03+00:00 Chaloalvarezj wrote: I've struggling to import data from a spreadsheet into an existing database... Copying and dragging seems to be bugged, so will really appreciate that the import wizard is implemented. Suggest to have it working as in Access Database but using the connection facilities Base seems to have. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2005-12-09T14:40:22+00:00 Andrew Ziem wrote: *** Issue 56500 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2005-12-21T14:43:04+00:00 Alun-roberts-c wrote: Adding a data import button similar to the one in Microsoft Access would greatly improve the usability of Openoffice Base. I tried for an hour with Openoffice (and failed) to import a csv file with 87600 rows and 20 columns using the first line in the columns as the field names. Although after a bit more research I could probably have written a script to create a text table first then copy the data across to a native Base table my ordinary users certainly could not do this. As each file we want to import has different column headers this could become tedious. MS Access did this task in a couple of minutes, correctly naming the fields and correctly determining the field data type from the format of the text data (some of the fields are date / time etc...). The other alternative would be to remove the restriction on the maximum number of rows in the OOo Calc component. Some of our data sets have 250000 rows and 1000 columns. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2005-12-21T14:48:02+00:00 Alun-roberts-c wrote: Adding a data import button similar to the one in Microsoft Access would greatly improve the usability of Openoffice Base. I tried for an hour with Openoffice (and failed) to import a csv file with 87600 rows and 20 columns using the first line in the columns as the field names. Although after a bit more research I could probably have written a script to create a text table first then copy the data across to a native Base table my ordinary users certainly could not do this. As each file we want to import has different column headers this could become tedious. MS Access did this task in a couple of minutes, correctly naming the fields and correctly determining the field data type from the format of the text data (some of the fields are date / time etc...). The other alternative would be to remove the restriction on the maximum number of rows in the OOo Calc component. Some of our data sets have 250000 rows and 1000 columns. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2005-12-27T14:20:32+00:00 Andrew Ziem wrote: *** Issue 59766 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/7 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2006-05-03T12:47:07+00:00 Irneb wrote: Is this not a duplicate of issue 42464? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2006-05-03T14:23:54+00:00 Bert-meersma-p wrote: @ibarnard: In my opinion this is not a duplicate of issue 42464. That issue is about linking an another database into the current database, similar to functionality MS Access offers. This issue is about importing files directly into tables of the current database. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2006-05-03T15:53:19+00:00 Irneb wrote: Yes I understand, but this may be related in the sense that the same subsystem (if created at any time) will perform both functions. Meaning OOo has to load the other database before it can import its data - thus having to link the two temporarily. By the way this is how MS Access accomplishes both. Why write two sets of code where one will do? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2006-05-03T17:38:30+00:00 Sam Clark wrote: There is a difference between a duplicate issue and a dependent issue. Duplicate issues come to the same thing. Resolving issue 42464 will not automatically resolve this issue. The point of this issue is to create simple functionality to allow even the most novice user to be able to import tables from other data sources in one action without being bothered with explicitly linking and unlinking a data source. It might be a very good idea to show this issue depending on 42464, but it would not be a good idea to dismiss this issue once the other has been resolved. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2006-07-31T14:44:58+00:00 Marc-neumann wrote: *** Issue 67913 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2006-08-16T16:30:04+00:00 Christoph-lukasiak wrote: *** Issue 67631 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. *** Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2007-11-23T16:31:49+00:00 Pete Boyd wrote: Until this is available, here's how to do this with help from Solveig Haugland: - Exporting data from an OpenOffice.org Base database: http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2007/04/farrrrrr_simple.html. Other methods seem plausible but are broken. - Importing data into an OpenOffice.org Base database: http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1222186,00.html What she doesn't make explicit enough is you can paste from a spreadsheet but it won't work if pasting from an OpenOffice database. - Copying from one OpenOffice Base databse to another (the following assumes you've read the documents above): - paste the database contents into a blank spreadsheet - copy the contents of the spreadsheet - paste into the database (You get prompted for the table name, don't use <table name> use <db name>.<table name> format) Pete Boyd Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2007-11-23T16:41:17+00:00 Mechtilde-1 wrote: add as CC Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2007-11-26T04:59:09+00:00 Irne-barnard wrote: Yep, that's a very easy way of doing it ... unfortunately it only works for small amounts of data due to the restriction on columns & rows in the spreadsheet. Any well used database soon goes over that boundary (especially the rows). Now if you could directly copy data between 2 OOo Base databases (irrespective of the backbone driver) this would accomplish the task quite easily. I'm just thinking that placing all the data on the clipboard & then pasting into a new table or appending, will use a lot of ram whereas a link shouldn't be that wasteful. The user doesn't need to know that a link is created (even a temporary link) - this could be done in the background as OOo should be able to notice that you're importing data from one open database to another open database - thus no user intervention except for the Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V key presses. If the "linking" idea can be done as described above, this will make even the linked tables (as per issue 42464) as seamless as a copy-n-paste operation. Maybe just say add an option in the Edit menu. E.g. Paste-Special --> Paste as Link. This is also much closer to what inexperienced users would expect, as most other programs offer this type of functionality, e.g. Paste a link to a Calc spreadsheet into a Writer document. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/17 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2013-11-22T19:36:38+00:00 Openoffice-v wrote: Running into the need for this now. Has any progress been made? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/19 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2013-11-23T13:11:11+00:00 Openoffice-v wrote: Please ignore previous comment. Found exactly what I was looking for, but wow is there a need to simplify the usability, either through documentation and/or a clearly marked "Import" button or menu option. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/20 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2014-01-15T07:19:08+00:00 Irne-barnard wrote: (In reply to tictactow from comment #18) > Found exactly what I was looking for Could you possibly point out your solution? Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/21 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2014-01-16T02:52:57+00:00 Openoffice-v wrote: Import into OOcalc using "file open" or drag and drop, you then get the Import Wizard to parse your data. Once in Excel format, cut and paste into Base. Hope this helped. Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/22 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2014-01-16T02:54:32+00:00 Openoffice-v wrote: Spent ages looking for an "Import" menu option though. ;-) Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ On 2022-05-13T20:13:46+00:00 OOoForum wrote: Feature with this extension for Base to import CSV: https://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/import-csv-base Reply at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/150296/comments/24 ** Changed in: openoffice Status: Confirmed => Unknown ** Changed in: openoffice Importance: Unknown => Low -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150296 Title: [Upstream] [hardy] Importing data to Base To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/openoffice/+bug/150296/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
