Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 15355
OO doesn't put changes in database into existing documents
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
When you change an entry in the bibliographical database, it is not changed in the documents where you inserted the entry before the change. This is good for not spoiling academic work afterwards by quoting a wrong edition or something like that, but it is bad for as simple things as correcting typos. Perhaps some form asking whether you want the document changed at the next opening would do the trick, some like "Change literature entry: at this place / everywhere / nowhere". Works with the templates, I guess it could be adapted for the bibliographical database without too much effort (no, I don't know anything about programming, I'm just guessing). Bye Kai
Good point! +1
I agree, but, sometimes I need special data for one article. Example: I have in my database Enders 2001a, 2001b, 2001c Now I'll like to use only one of these like Enders 2001c in an article. So I'll change the year and the identifier in this article in Enders 2001. So OO should be so intelligent to see this - I think the best solution is to ask what should be changed in each special case.
Yes, this really makes the bibliography (as it stands) completely useless in spite of some *very* nice features. Because I was not careful, I ended up with a useless bibliography table after fixed up some misspelled entries in the bibliography and extpected the table to refetch the data. Do you have a workaround for this, by any chance?
You could write a macro to do this.
This issue is considered for OO.o later.
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".