Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 92551
Impress v3 Beta 2 cannot find some text in a table
Last modified: 2009-01-19 11:06:42 UTC
I set up a simple table in Impress 3 Beta 2, with text in the table. It seemed to work fine. This evening I opened the same file on the same computer, again using v3.beta2 , and most of the text in the table didn't seem to be there. I opened the same file in 2.4.1, and the text was all there. It had clearly been saved, but v3.beta2 wasn't displaying it. I went back into v3.beta 2, loaded the file and exported to .ppt. The text was still missing. I loaded the file in 2.4.1 and exported to .ppt: no problem, there it all was. Weird, huh? I can submit the file for others to experiment with, but I can't see a link on this page to do that. I presume that will happen once the "issue" is registered.
Created attachment 55631 [details] Simple presentation with table, but the text in the table doesn't all display in v.3beta2; it does in 2.4.1!
Reproducible on XP, too. I assume that this has been an OLE in former times, now the table is a metafile. In 2.4.1 I have complete text ob slide 2 and text in three cells on slide 1. Current m29 shows text only on slide 2 at the top and at the bottom.
2.x shows the correct table because since 2.x does not know about the new tables, OOo 3.x saves a picture of the table along with the contents of the table. Now the picture shows that there actually was text in most of the cells during saving the document, but the actual xml file does not contain any text in those empty cells. They must have been ignored while saving the document in OOo 3.0. From the bugdoc I can not see how this error has occurred. cforbesaus, can you tell something about how you created this table before you saved it? Did you use the clipboard or did you just enter the text? Did you save directly after you entered the text or did you load the document again and then saved?
Dear cl, you asked, "cforbesaus, can you tell something about how you created this table before you saved it? Did you use the clipboard or did you just enter the text? Did you save directly after you entered the text or did you load the document again and then saved?" I started with a blank presentation, and created the table using the drop-down tool in the toolbar; I think I created it with 2 columns and about 10 rows. Then I changed the table properties to make it all plain white background. Then I copied-and-pasted the text from a Writer document. I think I used Paste Special Unformatted Text, but I'm not sure. I put in several blocks of text and fiddled with their formatting a bit, saving occasionally. Everything was fine until I closed the file and went away and did something else for a while. When I opened the file again the text had vanished. I hope this helps. cforbesaus
I have encounterd exactly the same problem. I lost my table data after saving and reloading. I have tried again. That is, I entered data in the table again, but after saving and reloading, the data is gone........... PDF export before the saving is fine. I think this is a serious problem since data loss causes critical situation.
Created attachment 56559 [details] bugdoc (native table of the Impress)
Oh... my Impress version is 3.0 RC1.
I also had seen this error once on my machine. Unfortunately I can not reproduce it. It would help me a great deal to fix this issue if someone can give me a step by step instruction how to create this data loss (the less steps the better). The given bugdocs confirm me that we indeed have such a bug but they do not help me to find the problem since the data is already lost. I suspect it has something to do with editing a table and then saving the document without leaving the text edit mode. But looks like it is not that simple...
I've noticed this problem too... two times : one with Ubuntu 8.04 32bit and one with Ubuntu 8.04 amd64. Both with OOO300 m5... Both with a "fresh" OOo doc (drawing). Unfortunately, I can't reproduce this defect (When I've tried to re-create a similar doc, everything was OK...) Hopping someone would be able to find the origin of this bug before the stable release...
*** Issue 94076 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
I find a way to reproduce the problem : 1 Open a new blank drawing or presentation. 2 Insert a new table (with the menu, or the toolbox) 3 write some text in cases (not all the cases) 4 save the doc 5 add text in blank cases 6 save and close When you reopen the doc, the text of step 3 has disappear...
Yupp, this is it. I can reproduce , too. Thank you very much!!
Target reset.
fixed in cws impress163 for OOo 3.0.1 after save the cell text api implementation for each empty cell had a selection of 0,0 -> 0,0. This didn't change even after text was edited in the cell. I now changed svx/source/tabe/cell.cxx to enforce recalculation of the selection as soon as the para outliner object changes.
verified in cws, back to qa
Verified in CWS.
*** Issue 96633 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Verified again.
*** Issue 97699 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Tested in m39 and closed.