Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 98830
crash merging address fields from thunderbird
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:43:11 UTC
I made an addressbook by connecting to Thunderbird addressbook. Reading the addressbook and inserting fields and records in Writer works fine. Merging with a template containing addressbook-fields too. Making a merge-letter too, and making the difference between salutations for women and men works fine, except.... When I use one of the <custom fields> in the salutation the system crashes. I tried to build a conditional text by hand, with the same result. A conditional text that uses other fields works fine. It might have to do with translation, for the name of these customfields in Dutch is: "Gebruikerdef. #", # being a number from 1-4. This contains a dot, which is used for seperating the names of adressbook,table and field also. I could not find a way of finding out if my my assumption is right though. If there is a way of changing these Dutch names by hacking a file somewhere I am willing to try.
Created attachment 59885 [details] Errorreport for this crash generated by OO
Please attach a sample document containg the conditional fields
Created attachment 59903 [details] Use of Conditional fields that causes a crash
Created attachment 59904 [details] Conditional fields that workj OK
Created attachment 59905 [details] Plain form with fields, also the conditional field, but just showing it. Works OK.
I am not sure if I should or can do anything to encourage you guys to change the Assigned-field from 'writerneedsconfirm' to somthing else. Can't find anything about this in the multiple help-pages and I did what was asked for: uploading sample documents. Hope this one helps ;))
Did some testing with the custom field (Dutch version) from Thunderbird-address book in the Base module also. Most works OK, but sorting generates an error. If you need more info, just mail me please.
do not understand the status field , please clarify
Could you please attach the Adressen.odb file to this issue, so that we can see what's happening when merging the contents. If you don't want to share this file here, you can send it directly to mru@openoffice.org. We here at SUN will of course handle it confidentially. Thanks for supporting us!
Thanks for your response. I just send you an email with the addresses database. Hope it helps. If you need the Thunderbird-addressbook also just let me know. BTW: I still do not know wether the assignedfield above ("writerneedsconfirm (writerneedsconfirm)" ) means that you want me to do something.
I was now able to see this also with a German OOo. There, the Thunderbird Address Book uses similar field names "benutzerdef. 1". This also leads to crash in OOo 3.0. But it looks fixed in OOo 3.1 dev build OOO310m4 and m5. Could you please verify on your system?
Closed. Works in OOo 3.1.