Issue 81035

I can't reproduce the bug.
when I tested it everything works like expected.
Please write me a step by step description how to reproduce the bug.

Problem 1 (new slides do not appear/deleted slides are kept:
1) create a presentation (link.odp) with 3 slides (add some content to each side
to make them unique). save&close the file.
2) create a new presentation (master.odp)
3) within the master.odp click insert->file
3b) select the link.odp within the file-dialog
3c) click on the root node of the document tree of link.odp in order to select
the complete presentation to be linked in into master.odp
3d) make sure that the "link"-checkbox is checked
3e) click ok to link all content of link.odp into master.odp (which appears
immediately in master.odp)
4) save&close master.odp (no document should be open now)

5) open link.odp and create a new slide
6) save&close link.odp
7) open master.odp: the newly created slide does not appear !!

(note: the same holds for slide deletion: slides which are deleted in link.odp
do still appear in master.odp)


Problem2 (changes are not reflected):
0) repeat the step 1-4 as described above

5) open master.odp and modify one of the linked-in slides. 
6) save&close master.odp
7) open link.odp: The modifications are not reflected here (!!), although we
checked the "link"-box in the insert-dialog --> its rather a copy&paste than a
linking, which contradicts the user expectation (at least my one)

Problem 2: The links are not updated immediately. You can update them by Edit >
Links.. > Update. (You can multiselect the items.) In addition, the links can be
updated when you open the document. This works for me.

In Problem 1 you are right. Not the "file" is linked but each slide/page
individually.

I think, linking a whole file as file would be a new feature.

Problem2:
thanx for pointing me to this dialog (never seen it before).

But: problem2 describes the other direction. Changes made within master.odp in
the linked slides are not reflected in the underlaying document (link.odp). But
this is what the user expects if she's using linking. (It's like with "ln -s"
under linux: if you change the content of a symbolic link, you're automatically
changing the source of the link).

This issue is duplicate to issue 77396

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 77396 ***

I close the issue as duplicate.

why closed? problem2 remains IMHO open (cf my last comment about it): Changes in
linked slides are not reflected in the linked-in document. As fas as I can see
this is not covered in issue 77396.

reopen the issue

Save the changes of a linked slide in the master is a feature.
In my mind it's not good to save the changes in the master because if you use
the slide in several different presentations you don't know which presentations
you all change.

@cgu
It's a feature from the implementation point of view. From a content point view
a "link" (or here: some linked slides) directly refers to an additional object.

A link for which changes are not reflected in the linked entity is not a link
but a simple copy. So if you would like to keep your masters as they are, you
could IMHO just copy them. If you would like to change the pages refered by a
link directly you would need a real link, but what is currently called "link" in
OOo-Impress is not a link but a copy with a unused reference to the original.

Expectation is wrong regarding problem2.
Just like in master documents: "Subdocuments never get changed by changes made to the master document."
Changes made in step 5 of comment 2 are not reflected in link.odp.
Link feature works downstream, not upstream.