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From: Gordon on 13 Jan 2010 10:59
Hi!

I'm trying to establish whether a problem with OO 3.1.1 that is bundled
with Ubuntu 9.10 is an Ubuntu one or an Open Office one so I need
answers from people who don't run Ubuntu!

The problem is this - the OO bundled with Ubuntu 9.10 will NOT use any
email client address books as an address source, (in other words when I
do File-Wizards-Address data Source, the the ONLY option available is
External Data source - no Email addressbook sources are visible) whereas
the standalone install of 3.1.1 on Windows is able to do so. (If I do
the same menu options in Windows I get a list of email client
addressbook types showing)

You can see the differences here:
http://cid-e60ce3038809e993.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Open%20Office%20screens

Can anyone help me with this?
From: Andy Cap on 14 Jan 2010 01:55
On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:59:41 +0000, Gordon <gbplinux(a)gmail.com> wrote:

>Hi!
>
>I'm trying to establish whether a problem with OO 3.1.1 that is bundled
>with Ubuntu 9.10 is an Ubuntu one or an Open Office one so I need
>answers from people who don't run Ubuntu!
>
>The problem is this - the OO bundled with Ubuntu 9.10 will NOT use any
>email client address books as an address source, (in other words when I
>do File-Wizards-Address data Source, the the ONLY option available is
>External Data source - no Email addressbook sources are visible) whereas
>the standalone install of 3.1.1 on Windows is able to do so. (If I do
>the same menu options in Windows I get a list of email client
>addressbook types showing)
>
>You can see the differences here:
>http://cid-e60ce3038809e993.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Open%20Office%20screens
>
>Can anyone help me with this?

I'm not familiar with this, so don't know how much help I can be.

We have OO 3.1.1 running on Fedora 11, but had to add some other packages to get
the Address Data Source option to appear on the Wizards menu at all.

Now I have that, the available option are :-

Evolution
Groupwise
Evolution LDAP
Other external data source

My wife uses Thunderbird anyway.

Andy C
From: chris on 14 Jan 2010 06:42
On 13/01/10 15:59, Gordon wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to establish whether a problem with OO 3.1.1 that is bundled
> with Ubuntu 9.10 is an Ubuntu one or an Open Office one so I need
> answers from people who don't run Ubuntu!
>
> The problem is this - the OO bundled with Ubuntu 9.10 will NOT use any
> email client address books as an address source, (in other words when I
> do File-Wizards-Address data Source, the the ONLY option available is
> External Data source - no Email addressbook sources are visible) whereas
> the standalone install of 3.1.1 on Windows is able to do so. (If I do
> the same menu options in Windows I get a list of email client
> addressbook types showing)
>
> You can see the differences here:
> http://cid-e60ce3038809e993.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Open%20Office%20screens
>
> Can anyone help me with this?

I have a stock RPM install from the OOo site of v3.1.1 on Centos 5. My
list of available 'Address data sources' is:
Mozilla/Netscape
Thunderbird
KDE address book
LDAP address data
other external data source

Looks like it could be an Ubuntu limitation or you may need to install
an optional OOo package.
From: Fabian on 14 Jan 2010 07:13
Gordon uttered these words of wisdom:
> Hi!
>
> I'm trying to establish whether a problem with OO 3.1.1 that is bundled
> with Ubuntu 9.10 is an Ubuntu one or an Open Office one so I need
> answers from people who don't run Ubuntu!
>
> The problem is this - the OO bundled with Ubuntu 9.10 will NOT use any
> email client address books as an address source, (in other words when I
> do File-Wizards-Address data Source, the the ONLY option available is
> External Data source - no Email addressbook sources are visible) whereas
> the standalone install of 3.1.1 on Windows is able to do so. (If I do
> the same menu options in Windows I get a list of email client
> addressbook types showing)
>
> You can see the differences here:
> http://cid-e60ce3038809e993.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Open%20Office%20screens
>
>
> Can anyone help me with this?

Install:
Package Name:
openoffice.org-evolution

This package allows OpenOffice.org to access Evolution address books.
You need to install evolution separately.



--
Fabian
From: Gordon on 14 Jan 2010 08:06
chris wrote:
> On 13/01/10 15:59, Gordon wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm trying to establish whether a problem with OO 3.1.1 that is bundled
>> with Ubuntu 9.10 is an Ubuntu one or an Open Office one so I need
>> answers from people who don't run Ubuntu!
>>
>> The problem is this - the OO bundled with Ubuntu 9.10 will NOT use any
>> email client address books as an address source, (in other words when I
>> do File-Wizards-Address data Source, the the ONLY option available is
>> External Data source - no Email addressbook sources are visible) whereas
>> the standalone install of 3.1.1 on Windows is able to do so. (If I do
>> the same menu options in Windows I get a list of email client
>> addressbook types showing)
>>
>> You can see the differences here:
>> http://cid-e60ce3038809e993.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Open%20Office%20screens
>>
>>
>> Can anyone help me with this?
>
> I have a stock RPM install from the OOo site of v3.1.1 on Centos 5. My
> list of available 'Address data sources' is:
> Mozilla/Netscape
> Thunderbird
> KDE address book
> LDAP address data
> other external data source

So that didn't come bundled with Centos, but was installed from the OO site?

>
> Looks like it could be an Ubuntu limitation or you may need to install
> an optional OOo package.

Base is installed....
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