Bug 1216164 - Address data source wizard is broken for Thunderbird
Summary: Address data source wizard is broken for Thunderbird
Status: NEW
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Product: openSUSE Distribution
Classification: openSUSE
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version: Leap 15.4
Hardware: Other Other
: P5 - None : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Danilo Spinella
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Reported: 2023-10-12 07:54 UTC by Christoph Wickert
Modified: 2023-11-14 08:22 UTC (History)
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Description Christoph Wickert 2023-10-12 07:54:00 UTC 
LibreOffice includes a wizard to select the address book data source for mail merge. It allows setting up the address books of Thunderbird, Evolution, KDE, as well as LDAP. For more info, see 
https://help.libreoffice.org/7.6/en-US/text/shared/guide/data_addressbook.html

How to reproduce:
File -> Wizards -> Address Data Source -> Select Thunderbird -> Next

Result:
Error message: "The connection to the external data source could not be established. No SDBC driver was found for the URL 'SDBC:address:thunderbird'. at /home/abuild/rpmbuild/BUILD/libreoffice-7.5.4.1/connectivity/source/commontools/dbexception.cxx:413

This error is from the the LibreOffice version of Leap 15.4 / SLE 15 SP4, however it still occurs on newer versions. To me it looks like a packaging issue.
Comment 1 Danilo Spinella 2023-10-23 13:27:15 UTC 
Hello Christoph, thank you for the bug report. Are you able to connect to any other source other than Thunderbird?
Comment 2 Christoph Wickert 2023-11-14 08:22:35 UTC 
Libre Office 'internal' data sources such as spreadsheets and databases work fine, however external ones like Evolution (local, not LDAP) give the same error message. I have not tried ODBC/JDBC though.