Hi Vitorio, Le 02/06/2014 17:59, Vitorio Delage a écrit : > Hello everybody! > > First of all, I would like to thank very warmly everyone involved > with this great project. LibreOffice is amazing.
Thanks a lot and it's nice to see the Académie using LibreOffice :) > > We are trying to setup a mail merge in my institution, based on > LibreOffice, of course. And I would like to suggest 2 improvements: > > 1) Put more filter criterias in the Standard Filter window. We use 3 > for a basic search. Yes, our database is complex. Doubling it to 6 > would be good, using an dynamically extensible list of criterias > (similar of what iTunes provide when creating a new smart playlist) > would be great! Is there a simple hack to do it or do I need to fill > a bug/feature report? > > 2) Also in the Standard Filter window, we got a logical problem. We > wanted to filter criterias A AND (B OR C) but there is no way to do > it. If you try to put 3 criterias 1 AND 2 OR 3 you will obtain the > logic (1 AND 2) OR 3. Tried also the inverse without better luck: 1 > OR 2 AND 3 is also resolved as 1 OR (2 AND 3). As our or is on > looking text in the same field, I also tried to put in a single > criteria as "text" like 'this|that' but the Standard filter doesn't > seem to use the | operator. Any help on how I could do this logic? > > I'm new here, please advice me if this kind of problem is better in a > feature request than in the mailing list. It's more a feature request, yes > > For the moment, the only workaround I see to my problem is making new > views in my database anticipating the filters. I would like to avoid > it and use Libreoffice to filter on the fly, as the number of cases > we face is potentially big/not previsible. It's not a workaround and it's how it is designed. So you're doing right regarding how LibreOffice handles mail merged. So the best is to request an enhancement on our bug database. If you need help doing so, you can also come to our French speaking QA list at q...@fr.libreoffice.org. Kind regards Sophie -- Sophie Gautier <sophie.gaut...@documentfoundation.org> Tel:+33683901545 Membership & Certification Committee Member - Co-founder The Document Foundation -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
