Hi Vitorio, Here one of the mails in the thread, so that you can step in ;)
Regards, Cor Sophie wrote (03-06-14 09:15) > 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 > -- Cor Nouws GPD key ID: 0xB13480A6 - 591A 30A7 36A0 CE3C 3D28 A038 E49D 7365 B134 80A6 - vrijwilliger http://nl.libreoffice.org - volunteer http://www.libreoffice.org - The Document Foundation Membership Committee Member -- 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
