Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 24696
insert fields from db: into an existing table
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:37:10 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.
Reassigned to BH
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