Issue 24696 - insert fields from db: into an existing table
Summary: insert fields from db: into an existing table
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2004-01-22 09:44 UTC by fkater
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:37 UTC (History)
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Issue Type: FEATURE
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Description fkater 2004-01-22 09:44:43 UTC
Hi,
the writer app could conquer a wide spread and very common task of any office
with a new feature -- something what can't be done with the writer nor with ms
word up to now.

The scenario:

* you have a writer template with a table and fields in it like this
<position> <amount> <productname> <singleprice>
* you have a calc sheet used as a data source

The problem:

* you can't insert more than one row of the data source (in the F4-database
view) into an *existing* preformatted table
* (there is the fantastic feature to create a *new* table, however this is not
compatible with a template which has an *existing* table.)

The feature enhancement request:

* If existing fields are updated from a data source AND
* these fields are already placed inside of an existing table THEN
* there should be a dialog if to insert a new line to the existing table, be
filled with the same field-types and be filled with the data base's contents.

Sorry, if this sounds a bit too much for an enhancement but as I noticed that
there is already a feature to create a new table formed form several rows in the
data source I hope there is a way.

Finally:

* Although this would be an excellent feature -- on the long term I see some
conceptional problems: How would the writer app and the user determine which
fields are "repeater"-fields (e.g. <productname>, <singleprice>) and which one
are "one time update" fields (like <sum> or <totalprice>)? Maybe the mentioned
dialog is the first approach to solve this.
Comment 1 h.ilter 2004-01-22 15:30:48 UTC
Reassigned to BH
Comment 2 ace_dent 2008-05-16 02:54:33 UTC
OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request.

The Issue you raised has the status 'New' pending further action, but has not
been updated within the last 4 years. Please consider re-testing with one of the
latest versions of OOo, as the problem(s) may have already been addressed.
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Many thanks,
Andrew
 
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Comment 3 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 15:11:42 UTC
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".