Issue 122091 - Text import options get lost
Summary: Text import options get lost
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: Base
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: 3.4.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Normal (vote)
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Reported: 2013-04-18 18:20 UTC by Andreas Säger
Modified: 2013-04-18 18:20 UTC (History)
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Description Andreas Säger 2013-04-18 18:20:39 UTC 
Let's say we have a text source with a special file name suffix, say .dat, and no header row.
When we connect a database document to a collection of these files, there is no option to specify that there is no header row. We need to specify this option later in Edit>Database>Properties. Same with the character encoding.
This is an annoyance. But now for the bug:

The table is visible, the first data row is taken as column labels. 
Open the database properties dialog, uncheck the header row option, confirm the dialog, open the table ... nothing changed. 
Close table, View>Refresh Tables ... nothing changed.
Save and close document, reopen ... no more table.
Edit>Database>Properties... The file name suffix changed to *.txt. Enter *.dat into the text box, confirm dialog ... nothing changed.
Close table, View>Refresh Tables ... nothing changed.
Save and close document, reopen ... no more table.
Edit>Database>Properties... The file name suffix changed to *.txt. 

Whenever you fix the options that were not offered during the first import, you lose the correct name suffix option.