Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 110080
Data loss when using master documents
Last modified: 2010-03-17 20:42:06 UTC
Changes to master documents are lost. Steps to reproduce: Open an existing Master Document Begin editing Save changes Close Master Document Re-open Master document
Cannot confirm with OOo 3.2 on WinXP. Will have a look on Mac soon. BTW: what did you "edit"? I hope, you did not remove the protection from a linked section and edited in the linked part?
Steps: Create word processing documents 1, 2, and 3 Create master document 0 Add sections 1,2,3 linking to documents 1,2,3 Edit text in 0, Save document 0 Close document 0 Open document 0
Cannot confirm this. Text I added to a master document is properly saved and loaded again. Checked with OOo 3.2 on Mac and Win. Where do you edit the text in the Master Document?
Created attachment 68359 [details] Master document
Created attachment 68360 [details] Section One
Created attachment 68361 [details] Section Two
Perhaps someone else should look at this instead? There are three attachments. Get all three. Open "The Master Document" edit one of the sections. Close the master document. Re-open the master document.
So why don't you answer my question? You edited inside the section. The sections are linked - so they will be updated with the linked content every time you open the master document. you have to click the option "Save contents as well" in the Navigator. then you have to click "Update links? - No" when you open the master document. Contents in linked will ALWAYS be overwritten when updating a links.
closed, not a bug here. Concept of Master document and linked sections has not been understood. Please next time refer to mailing lists like users@oenoffice org or OOo support pages.
Michael, please let someone else look at this instead of quickly brushing it under the rug.
I cannot see when the edits in the master document are getting overwritten. It is clear is that the changes made inside the master document are not getting propagated to the linked documents. No warnings are given when saving or closing.
Created attachment 68404 [details] Save As dialog
Created attachment 68405 [details] Save As dialog -- corrected
In the attached TIFF, there is a screen shot of the Save As dialog. There is no warning there or in the regular save dialog warning that the changes will be lost. Expected behavior is that changes in the master are saved to the linked documents. I've looked in the frame brought up by View->Navigator and see nothing there about saving, but would not expect it to be there, anyway.
@larsnooden: someone else will tell you exactly the same as MRU who is perfectly right... http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOoAuthors_User_Manual/Writer_Guide/Editing_a_master_document "Editing subdocuments You cannot save edits made to a subdocument from within the master document. Instead, you must open the subdocument..." As MRU said, a concept problem: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=14487 *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 14487 ***
closed
More than just a concept problem, it is at least a design problem with the UI.