Issue 19454

Summary: Important warnings are left out of Mail Merge / Field Topics
Product: documentation Reporter: phillg <phill.gillespie>
Component: Online helpAssignee: Unknown <non-migrated>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: issues@documentation <issues>
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: issues
Version: OOo 1.1 RC4   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   
Issue Type: DEFECT Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---
Issue Depends on:    
Issue Blocks: 19568    
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Description Flags
five column data source, with column 4 deleted none

Description phillg 2003-09-11 15:52:40 UTC
Open the online help and go to the section Conditions; fields and then scroll up
to the top of the text on the right (with the heading Defining Conditions).

Missing from Conditions and Variables sections is an important note saying:
"Note that when writing conditions including numbers they must be by themselves
and strings must be in double quotes.  For example TEST == 1 would be true if
the field TEST contain the value 1.  You could then do TEST + 1 to get the value
2.  If you set the condition to be TEST == "1" however it would fail as it would
test to see if TEST was a string, not a number, equal to "1".

Further down under Conditions and Database Fields there needs to be another
important note saying:
"Note that when using fields with hyphens in the name, they must be enclosed in
double quotes, e.g. "Database.Table.E-Mail".  This does not apply to fields with
underscores in, as Database.Table.E_mail is accepatable"

These two note who have prevented issue 18294 and the final part of issue 15100
being reported when they behave as expected.
Comment 1 phillg 2003-09-14 20:08:30 UTC
Setting Priority back down to P2 as this issue is now a member of
tracker bug Issue 19568
Comment 2 phillg 2003-09-14 20:55:38 UTC
The second part of this additional text will not be needed if Issue
19571 is fixed.
Comment 3 phillg 2003-09-14 21:46:44 UTC
Created attachment 9311 [details]
five column data source, with column 4 deleted
Comment 4 phillg 2003-09-14 21:47:43 UTC
Sorry, please ignore the attached file - wrong issue :-(
Comment 5 eric.savary 2003-09-16 16:32:19 UTC
Duplicate

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 19571 ***
Comment 6 eric.savary 2003-09-16 16:32:44 UTC
closed