Bug 86672

Summary:	MAILMERGE: Add dialog to choose pages from document to print
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Timur <gtimur>
Component:	ux-advise	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium	CC:	iplaw67, jmadero.dev, libreoffice-ux-advise, qubit
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86668
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Simple ODT mailmerge example with 1 field and 2 pages Pages and Ranges: example added to mailmerge Print dialog

Description Timur 2014-11-24 20:07:21 UTC

When we print a Writer document with database fields, it asks: "Your document contains address database fields. Do you want to print a form letter?"
But, we cannot chooses which pages to print and it prints all.
We should have a dialog to choose which pages from document to print.

Comment 1 Joel Madero 2014-11-25 16:01:39 UTC

@Timur - can you provide clear steps on how to get to that dialog. Also a sample document would help.

Setting to NEEDINFO - once you provide info please set to UNCONFIRMED. Thanks

Comment 2 Timur 2014-11-26 09:09:55 UTC

Created attachment 110046 [details]
Simple ODT mailmerge example with 1 field and 2 pages

1. Open new Writer document and add 2nd page
2. Turn on View-Data Sources
3. From built-in Bibliography data source with 20 records, add Author field to the document on the 1st page
4. Choose File-Print to print document with database fields (20 copies) and Yes to print a form letter
5. You can choose Records and Output but not pages from the document to print so it will print all pages x number of records

Comment 3 Timur 2014-12-17 18:11:19 UTC

Created attachment 110960 [details]
Pages and Ranges: example added to mailmerge Print dialog

I put here "Inherited from OO". There've been some improvements through development, because OO prints forms badly, but neither can choose pages.
I add an example image how mailmerge print dialog might look like with standard Pages and Ranges print section.

Comment 4 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2014-12-21 17:04:42 UTC

One for the UX folks :-)

Comment 5 Alex Thurgood 2015-01-03 17:39:54 UTC

Adding self to CC if not already on

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