CarlP wrote:
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
CarlP wrote:
WinXP Home, OO 2, Athlon 1.7GHz
OK, tired of me yet? Now I have another problem relative to data
sources and mail merges. I want to be able to use one file as all
source data for a particular task, but I want that data source to
contain different data on any given day.
Basically, I have a relational database in Filemaker that I use to
create CSV export files of people I want to contact (usu. by
letter). I use the same file type, path and file name, allowing FMP
to overwrite the last file for a new export. This automates the
process of setting up my mail merge data because I can simply
connect all merge documents to this one file, then open, refresh and
print. Note that I have complex query routines for determining who
get's what mailing that are easily done in Filemaker but not in OO's
ODBC system so I can't use that (I've tried). Plus the database is
quite large and cumbersome to do through ODBC.
If I create a merge document and use the single data source file for
that document, I can't overwrite the data source file with new data.
Now, since it's in use by a merge document, I understand why it
shouldn't be able to be overwritten - the file is in use. But even
when I close OO, I can't overwrite the file - it's as if the file is
still in use. But if I end the soffice.bin/soffice.exe process
using the task manager, I can then overwrite the file.
Seems to me OO should let go of any files it has grabbed for memory
when it quits, but at some level that is not happening. Is this by
design, and if so, why. Otherwise, I assume this is a bug?
Carl
I opened an issue against this problem... I thought that it had been
fixed, but I was wrong...
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=59048
Thanks, I'm interested in a fix b/c this is a fairly important task
for me. I should have looked through the issues before posting.
Then be certain to add a note to the issue stating that you also have
problems with this. Really, this can help.
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Andrew Pitonyak
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