[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 141015] New: It's not visible to user that a MailMerge document without database fields is associated with the database

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141015

            Bug ID: 141015
           Summary: It's not visible to user that a MailMerge document
                    without database fields is associated with the
                    database
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: Inherited From OOo
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: mikekaganski at hotmail.com

MailMerge documents are associated with databases. Opening a MailMerge document
with related fields, relevant toolbar is shown (after tdf#115386).

However, for MM documents without database fields, this toolbar is not shown,
so it is not obvious that there is such an association.

Steps:

1. Create a Mail Merge document.
2. Remove all database fields from it.
3. Save and reopen.
=> Mail Merge toolbar is not shown.
4. Open its settings.xml
=> associated database is there in CurrentDatabaseDataSource, but there is
nothing in the UI to see this.

This association will show itself when opening More Fields dialog: it will try
to expand the associated database on Database tab. If that database is
password-protected, it will ask for password, which could be unexpected to
users, who do not realize they work with a Mail Merge document after they
removed all fields.

Use steps (or repro pack) from tdf#141011; remove all database fields; save and
reload the document; open More Fields dialog
=> password is requested.

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