[libreoffice-users] Re: create mailmerge with spreadsheet librecalc without using libre base ! pls help how to do it TQ

Am 03.02.2012 15:35, Alex Thurgood wrote:
> Thanks for testing, OOo 2.4.3 is going back a bit in time...
> So an unimplemented feature then ? I remember with StarOffice 5.x and
> OpenOffice.org 1.x, the SDB files contained clickable links to the
> Queries (the properties of which could be edited, as I recall) which
> meant that you didn't have to worry about assigning the query each time.

The links pointed to regular office doucments somehow related to the 
database. This could be spreadsheets and text documents with input forms 
and output tables (reports) or may be some documentation file.
SQL queries were stored in the profile data together with the connection 
settings. The whole concept was so much better than todays "Base 
documents" which in most cases store nothing but configuration data and 
confuse the majority of users.
The advantages of stand-alone forms and reports are obvious.

> Seems that that possibility was lost when the StarDesktop functionality
> was removed and Base 2.0 was developed.
>
> Alex

I installed 1.1.5 and gave a try. A serial letter with a few fields from 
the Bibliography.biblio table is printable without selecting the source 
table before printing.
When I drop some fields from a query I have to select the query again in 
the print dialog. Same annoyance as in 2.x and 3.x.
It looks like something that has been built many years ago and remained 
unfinished.


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