[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 134790] MAILMERGE Wizard stops at 'Salutation' screen

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134790

Jim Harvey <wb8nbs at prodigy.net> changed:

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--- Comment #13 from Jim Harvey <wb8nbs at prodigy.net> ---
(In reply to Michael Weghorn from comment #11)
> I've never used this personally, just took a quick look.
> 
> What are you expecting to do in the "Adjust Layout" step if there is no
> salutation?
> 
> From how it looked like to me in a quick test, it might be as follows, s. a.
> attached screencast that I created during my testing:
> 
> 1) The "Adjust Layout" step can be used to adapt where to put the
> salutation, see screencast at time 00:15: "Saluation Position" can be
> adapted there.
> 
> 2) Therefore, if there is no salutation, there is nothing to do in the
> "Adjust Layout" step, and it is skipped. For this reason, "Next" is greyed
> out, but "Finish" can be used to continue. (That button is not greyed out in
> your screenshots.)
> 
> (In reply to Jim Harvey from comment #10)
> 
> > I noted that even if you do create a Salutation, it won't let you continue.
> 
> 3) In my quick testing, that did work, but only if there were no unmatched
> fields being used, e.g. it does not work at time 00:17 because there is
> still "<not yet matched>" in the preview, but does work later when all
> fields in use have been matched to the "email" field.
> 
> Does that make sense and is it the same for you as well? If so, the
> behaviour seems to be OK to me at a quick glance.
> Please correct me if I'm wrong. As mentioned, I've just "played" with it a
> bit right now, never used it before.
> 
> I've used the version from Debian:
> 
> Version: 7.0.1.1.0+
> Build ID: <buildversion>
> CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 5.7; UI render: default; VCL: kf5
> Locale: en-GB (en_GB.UTF-8); UI: en-US
> Debian package version: 1:7.0.1~rc1-1+b1
> Calc: threaded


Thank you for looking at this. I don't need any salutation so I don't need to
adjust layout, and clicking Finish in any case exits the wizard. I can, as a
workaround from that point complete the mailing from the mail merge tool bar.

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