Document fields/properties not correct migrated

[mvdberg112]

Binary package hint: openoffice.org

File -> Properties -> Custome

In v2.4.1 four fields: Info 1, Info 2, Info 3, Info 4, which can be renamed with the 'Field Info...' button in the same tab.
I used Info 4 for the version number of my document, that was inserted at the bottom of each page. Info 4 was renamed to 'Version'.
Opening the same document in v3.0.1 gives first two other field: 'Course Name' and 'Course Number', values that I might have used in past versions of the document, but that were then discarded.
I cannot access Info 3 field (which I never used) or Info 4 (which was renamed 'Version').

I can see them in Insert -> Fields -> Other. I see there as custom fields: 'Course Name', 'Course Number', 'Info 1', 'Info 2', 'Info 3', 'Mailstop', 'Student Number', 'Teacher' and finally 'Version'. Those fields I did not use, but might have come from the time before when I used them (and then removed them), or from a conversion between ODT to DOC, back to ODT. It might be that the DOC was edited with Word in between.

SO: the migration problem causes to sub-issues: (1) the fields info 1 - info 4 are not shown in the correct order (i.e. Info 1 on top, rather than on position 3). (2) Except for the four fields in ' File -> Properties -> Custom', the fields are not accessible for editing, but are present in the document.

File showing the problem is included with name TemplateTyndalePapers_v1.2.linux.odt (not a template, but odt fie)

Ubuntu 8.0.4 Hardy, with updated OOo, 2.6.24-24-generic, OOo 3.0.1 build 9379

# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.04.2
Release: 8.04

# apt-cache policy openoffice.org
openoffice.org:
  Installed: 1:3.0.1-7ubuntu1~hardy1
  Candidate: 1:3.0.1-7ubuntu1~hardy1
  Version table:
 *** 1:3.0.1-7ubuntu1~hardy1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net hardy/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main Packages
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-security/main Packages
     1:2.4.0-3ubuntu6 0
        500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/main Packages

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 30 13:33:10 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: openoffice.org-core 1:3.0.1-7ubuntu1~hardy1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/lib/openoffice/program:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: openoffice.org
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-generic i686
UnreportableReason: This is not a genuine Ubuntu package

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Can you please attach an example document exhibiting this problem?

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

You mentioned you included file "TemplateTyndalePapers_v1.2.linux.odt" but it wasn't actually included.

[mvdberg112 (sp1471)]

Chris, thank you for asking! Is previous post, there it is!

I am very sure that I did select with the 'Browse...' button the document. I did exactly the same procedure now, and the document did upload. So I think I will open a bug about the bug-tracker :-)

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Do you still have this problem with the new version of OOo in the ppa at https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive ? I can see field 'Version' with OOo 3.1 so this might be fixed now?

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!