| Summary: | DOCX legacy drop-downs are only supposed to hold 25 items | ||
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| Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Aron Budea <aron.budea> |
| Component: | Writer | Assignee: | Tamás Zolnai <zolnaitamas2000> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | zolnaitamas2000 |
| Priority: | medium | Keywords: | filter:docx |
| Version: | 6.4.0.0.alpha1+ | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | All | ||
| Whiteboard: | target:6.4.0 target:6.3.2 | ||
| Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 104523, 104528 | ||
| Attachments: |
Sample DOCX (corrupted)
Sample DOCX (dropdown with 25 entries) Sample DOC |
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Created attachment 153450 [details]
Sample DOCX (dropdown with 25 entries)
To make repro easier, this sample, created in Word has a dropdown with 25 entries.
Roundtrip it in Writer, Word will open it just fine.
Add another entry in Writer, and Word will stop opening the file.
Interestingly, in case of DOC file MSO can open a drop-down form field with more than 25 items. Created attachment 153537 [details]
Sample DOC
(In reply to Tamás Zolnai from comment #2) > Interestingly, in case of DOC file MSO can open a drop-down form field with > more than 25 items. It still doesn't allow adding more on the UI, so hopefully there's no need to make a special case of that. Tamás Zolnai committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/d3c8973f54037f915e12cd038a6a76501d237ea4%5E%21 tdf#126792: DOCX legacy drop-downs are only supposed to hold 25 items, GUI It will be available in 6.4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback. Tamás Zolnai committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/8d84f32d55df06c2944da78e2b779de2dba21d50%5E%21 tdf#126792: DOCX legacy drop-downs are only supposed to hold 25 items, DOCX It will be available in 6.4.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback. For libreoffice-6-3 branch, I backported only the DOCX related patch (it's on gerrit), because the new GUI dialog contains a new string, which can't be added to a stable branch. Tamás Zolnai committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-6-3": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/92f527ef00fe7fa4f84e6577c7249de845be6479%5E%21 tdf#126792: DOCX legacy drop-downs are only supposed to hold 25 items, DOCX It will be available in 6.3.2. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback. |
Created attachment 153262 [details] Sample DOCX (corrupted) - In Writer Compatibility options, enable Reorganize Forms menu to have it MS compatible - Add a Forms -> Legacy Form Fields -> Drop-Down Form Field. - Double-click on it, and add 26 items, eg. characters from a to z (doesn't matter what). - Save as DOCX, and open it in Word. => Word refuses to open the file, giving a nondescript error (details: Unspecified error). When adding a similar drop-down in Word, only 25 entries can be added to it. Likely we should limit number of entries to 25 in a drop-down field (that was specifically added for Word compatibility), and perhaps for existing files we could silently drop the superfluous entries during save (would be nice to give a message, but perhaps too much work that's only relevant for existing buggy files, and this feature is only there since 6.3). Attaching a sample created in Writer that fails to open in Word. Observed using LO 6.4.0.0.alpha0+ (d2750b7eb02d6f1c8866199c98fe2e2286639b88) / Windows 7.