Issue 95822

Summary:

Cross-referencing between subdocuments

Product:

Writer

Reporter:

jgalgarra <jgalgarra>

Component:

formatting

Assignee:

writerneedsconfirm <swneedsconfirm>

Status:

CLOSED WONT_FIX

QA Contact:

issues@sw <issues>

Severity:

Trivial

Priority:

CC:

eric.savary, issues

Version:

OOo 3.0

Keywords:

needmoreinfo, oooqa

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows XP

Issue Type:

DEFECT

Latest Confirmation in:

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Developer Difficulty:

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Attachments:

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Description jgalgarra 2008-11-04 10:14:27 UTC

When migrating from 2.4 to 3.0 I've found that cross-references between
subdocuments of a same master document don't work as described in "Writer
Guide" (pages 369-371).

Before release 3.0 when you inserted a cross-reference outside the subdocument
you only got "tiny gray bars indicating the fields" (page 371). Now it always
appears the annoying "Error: Reference source not found" message instead. When
processing the master doc, the references are correctly included, but is a
big issue when you are working with very complex subdocuments. The formatting
becomes a nightmare, because the error text is so long that all the page
breaks or tables that before this release worked fine now are lost.

Comment 1 jgalgarra 2008-11-04 10:15:39 UTC

Created attachment 57694 [details]
Screen capture

Comment 2 eric.savary 2008-11-20 12:50:31 UTC

Please attach a sample document or if too big or confidential send it to me
menrioning the issue ID in the subject line of the e-mail.

Comment 3 eric.savary 2008-12-06 19:38:29 UTC

This is due to the new implementation of:
http://specs.openoffice.org/writer/numbering/Direct_Cross_References_to_Headings_and_Numberings.odt
(See 1.3)

Before implementation, when a reference was missing, there was no indication of
faulty reference. Just a gray space. Now the user sees th error and can correct it.

This is also the way references are working in MS Word.

To reduce a bit the space of those error message, you can switch to "Field name
view" with Ctrl+F9.

Comment 4 eric.savary 2008-12-06 19:38:53 UTC

closed