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[ooo-build] Help recommends installing Sun Report Builder instead of using the one included

Bug #157409 reported by Neil Musgrove
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OpenOffice
Won't Fix
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openoffice.org (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Low
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: openoffice.org2

The new Sun Report Builder OO.org extension does not work in Gutsy's OO.org. This works fine on the official Open Office builds when installed instead but not on the Ubuntu build of 2.3.

There is no error, the extension appears to install ok but when you try to create a new report in design mode (which uses the extension rather than wizard which uses the previous reporting engine) nothing happens.

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Neil Musgrove (neilmusgrove) wrote :

I have found the Extension in the repositories and this version works, it is unclear that this is how you have to install it.

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Troy James Sobotka (troy-sobotka) wrote :

Installation works fine here. For newer users, this will only appear in Base under the reports page.

You can also download the platform independent oxt from Sun and install via the "Extensions..." menu in Writer or like application.

If this works, this bug could probably be closed.

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote :

Do you still have this problem with openoffice.org 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2 in Ubuntu 8.04?

Changed in openoffice.org2:
status: New → Incomplete
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Neil Musgrove (neilmusgrove) wrote :

Yes,

I am using a clean install of 8.04 and just installed Base, i then followed the link to get extensions and downloaded it, installed it and it just does nothing when i click on the button. When i install via Adept it installs a load of prereq's, which i thought was maybe related to the problem but when i remove via adept (and leave the prereq's) then install the extension again normally it still does not work. I tried running oobase as root but it had no effect.

Cheers

Neil

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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote :

I guess I should have been more clear does the Sun Report Builder that is already packaged in Ubuntu 8.04 work for you... It is openoffice.org-report-builder.

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Neil Musgrove (neilmusgrove) wrote :

Yes the Ubunutu one works fine but it is not clear that that is how you must install it. The link in OO takes you to the website and from there most users would just download and install in a similar way to firefox.

Chris Cheney (ccheney)
Changed in openoffice.org:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Incomplete → Triaged
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the_burk (marcus-brandberg) wrote : Re: Help recommends installing Sun Report Builder instead of using the one included

tried to install with unopk (open office tool for installing) and it still doesnt work (nothing happens) and thats the official way to install anyway so something is up .. installing the ubuntu package now but its not right.. :P

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Jorge Castro (jorge) wrote :

Invalidating the upstream task since this is ubuntu-specific - this should probably be handled the same way we do firefox extensions.

Changed in openoffice:
status: New → Invalid
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Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote :

This probably should be forwarded to ooo-build to have the documentation referring to the sun report builder be removed.

Changed in openoffice:
status: Invalid → New
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In , Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote :

The help documentation still recommends installing the Sun Report Builder instead of using the included one with ooo-build even though the Sun one does not work.

Changed in openoffice:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
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Changed in openoffice:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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In , Rodo (rodo) wrote :

I think report builder is part of writer, so I hope Florian is the right man for this.

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In , Rodo (rodo) wrote :

Ops, the report builder is in base actually. Petr do you know if we ship Sun report builder or own in 3.x?

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In , Pmladek (pmladek) wrote :

The Report builded has been extension since OOo-3.0. We put it into the package OpenOffice_org-base-extensions for openSUSE-11.1 and SLED11.

The documentation is another issue. We might end up with a per-distro patch because every distribution might have it in another package. Changing strings is always a nightmare...

Hmm, we are going to install the extensions by default, so that people will not need to search for them. So, this issue has only a low priority and severity from our point of view.

Chris, how do you make these extensions available for the Ubuntu users?

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Changed in openoffice:
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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In , Chris Cheney (ccheney) wrote :

We have it in Ubuntu as a package called openoffice.org-report-builder. The main issue here is that it appears the Sun version doesn't even work with the ooo-build version and in the help file there is detailed instructions on how to install the Sun version. The fix would probably be to just remove the entire section of how to install the Sun version in the help documentation if it doesn't work in general for ooo-build based versions of OOo. If this was only a bug with < GoOO OOo 3.0 (?) meaning that the Sun version can actually be used now then this bug can be closed.

So is there actually another issue here of that the Sun version should work?

Chris

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In , Pmladek (pmladek) wrote :

I am afreaid the the upstream extensions still does not work with our distro specific builds. I agree that we should fix the help.

I am sorry, I have many other more urgent bugs, so I will not fix this one anytime soon. Feel free to provide patch to speed up the fix. ;-)

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Changed in openoffice:
status: Incomplete → Confirmed
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In , Kendy (kendy) wrote :

Debian already has a patch for this, see reportdesign-mention-package.diff. If Ubuntu has the same package name, just add that one to your patch set.

For SUSE, I guess we should svn cp it, and change the name to our package containing the thing [when time permits]. Of course, installing it by default is even better plan from my point of view ;-)

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John Baer (j.baer) wrote :

Just tried to install some extensions with OpenOffice and running on (9.10). Using the OpenOffice tool (which takes you to their site) I am only able to download the extension to disk. In other versions of OOO I was presented more choices.

Loading the extension from disk is successful but other than the generic template extension none work (pdf import, report writer).

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John Baer (j.baer) wrote :

Correction to previous comment. If the extensions are loaded via synaptic they install and perform as desired. The issue then become how does the user know this is the desired method?

:/

Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)
Changed in openoffice.org (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Won't Fix
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Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen) wrote : migrating packaging from OpenOffice.org to Libreoffice

[This is an automated message.]
There are no new official OpenOffice.org releases in Ubuntu packaging anymore => Won't Fix

If the problem persists, please mark this bug as "also affects project Libreoffice" or "also affects distribution Libreoffice (Ubuntu)" if that has not happened already.

Please leave references to upstream OpenOffice.org bugs in place to allow cross pollination.

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In , 2-pmladek (2-pmladek) wrote :

I am afraid that nobody wold fix the bug here. Please, report it upstream if it is still there.

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Changed in openoffice:
importance: Unknown → Low
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
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