Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 54209
Annoying arrangement of information fields in bizcard wizard
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:34:14 UTC
OOo2 seems to arrange bizcard info in the wizard as follows: FirstName LastName Initials Street Zip City Country State Title Profession Phone Mobile Fax Homepage Email Highly unlearned. The most natural course for me is: LastName FirstName Initials Title Profession Street City State Zip Country Phone Fax Cell Email Homepage Look at some job or credit card applications, or forms online. E-bay for example: FirstName LastName Street City State Zip Country Phone Phone2 DateOfBirth Email Yes they have the name reversed from what I put. In microcomputer applications II, we did a lot of data entry into MS Access; last name always came first, due to sort order. It makes more sense for what you're sorting by to be first, typically last name. At any rate, I'm not a UI design expert, so find out for yourself. Look at other programs, like MS Office or AbiWord. At any rate, a lot of things like applications, registration forms, and the like order this kind of information in a standard way. It's not always on the same lines; but top to bottom, left to right, following the tab stops, it comes out to be the same ordered list (plus or minus a few elements, but typically no order changes are made). Sometimes it's good to get in file like everyone else.
I'll take a look.
Confirm for a default "german" language installation. Summary: Order of fields on business cards produced with wizard in OOo 2.0 should depend on locale settings, because they differ in countries. Wizards used within OOo should follow international standard ISO rules. Example: In Germany the order ZIP CITY is common International (european) standard form is AFAIK CS-ZIP followed by CITY, where CS is the two digit ISO country code. My address is: 55131 Mainz or DE-55131 Mainz respectively. Test Case: File>New>Business Cards>Business Cards "Modern, with Name" produces a card template: User Field BC_COMP_CITY=Mainz, User Field BC_COMP_STATE= User Field BC_COMP_ZIP=55131 with a surplus comma after CITY and a surplus blank after field variable STATE, as: the user field STATE in GENERAL setting is not filled, because it's content isn't used in normal correspondence information (unless in government correspondence).
Confirming, having taken a look at US English version. For using US English, a common form would be: FirstName LastName Title Profession Street City State Zip Country Phone Mobile Fax Email Homepage OOo should match locale-specific settings for business cards if possible. Changing type to Request for Enhancement; please correct if it is felt that this is a bug.
Reassigned to requirements