Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 20081
Change the preferred mozilla address book user profile directly in Database Access
Last modified: 2006-05-31 14:29:06 UTC
On my system I have Installed OOo 1.1RC3 German version WIN98SE: 645m15(Build8669) [CWS:ooo11rc3] and Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 When I install the MOZILLA addressbook, I can only select the addressbook of one of my MOZILLA profiles. I did no check the limitation: - the one of the just active MOZILLA profile ? - the one of the fist profile in alpabetic order - an other criteria ? I will check this. Questions: - Is this problem also visible in other OS? Rainer
Related to issue 6485 ? Rainer
It has nothing to do with the actual active MOZILLA profile, I checked that. Rainer
OOo uses Mozilla components to access the Mozilla address book (in fact, some libraries of Mozilla code, which - by chance - then don't run in a Mozilla process, but in a OOo process). Mozilla itself allows to work with one profile only - you also cannot access address books from different profiles in the same Mozilla session. There is a documented, though invisible in the UI, possibility to switch the profile which is used by OOo: http://dba.openoffice.org/howto/mozillaprofile.html So unless we change the whole architecture, the only chance(s) we have here would be: - create an UI for switching the profile - allow switching profiles on-the-fly, similar to what Mozilla allows since 1.4 (though, AFAIK, there it doesn't work for address books, either, at least not without restart) I am not sure if it is worth it: Finally, I don't think that a lot of people really have more than 1 profile *in active use*. The only issue I see is if different users work, on the same machine, with the same Mozilla installation. But these people could use the feature on the page cited above to point their user installations of OOo to the right Mozilla profile.
Hi Frank, thanks for your information, it seems that this is more or less an ENHANCEMENT request. I will change Summary, Priority, Issue type and Target Milestone. A note concerning <http://dba.openoffice.org/howto/mozillaprofile.html>: MOZILLA _is_ able to change the profile during the running session - might be this can be ported "somehow" to OOo? Old Summary: Only MOZILLA addressbook of one MOZILLA-profile can be selected New: see above. Rainer
> A note concerning <http://dba.openoffice.org/howto/mozillaprofile.html>: > > MOZILLA _is_ able to change the profile during the running session - > might be this can be ported "somehow" to OOo? Well, at the very moment I wrote this document, Mozilla wasn't :). Also, IIRC, when they introduced the feature, it did not yet affect the address book, don't know if they already fixed it. If I find some time, I may update the page. Yes, in principle it would be possible to port this to OOo. Thanks Frank
Reassigned to Wind Li. Berry Jia
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fixed in CWS mozab05
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Hi, verified in cws mozab05 Bye Marc
Hi, now it#s possible to change the profile inside the properties of a mozilla addressbook database. fixed in current developer build -> close. The current developer build can be found at http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html Feel free to reopen if this issue is not fixed in the developer build. Bye Marc