Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 53295
Structured view for long documents (Table of contents browser, folding or mapping)
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:44:13 UTC
By now it is hard to structure a document well with OOo. One can set different headline levels and generate a TOC. This index however cannot be used as a navigation instrument or can be altered from the "outside" (e.g. it is not possible to generate new headlines from within the TOC). A solution beside folding and unfolding of certain levels in the document could be a structured view like in freemind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net), a mind mapping software, that allows to structure the entries logically, fast and transparently. This could be used as a browser in an additional window or as a structuring instrument in the early stages of the document.
Have you already examined the features of the Navigator? You have a structure view of your document, you can rearrange your document, you can jump to headlines and to all the objects and references in your document. You can even transfer things to other documents. So I think, there is no need for a structure view. If you do not agree, please describe, what feature you are missing in comparision to the Navigator.
The navigator is a great instrument to view and manipulate an already well structured document, however it is definetly -not- designed to -build- a structured document from scratch. So called mind managing software allows the user to build a structure right from the beginning with simple and straight forward navigation (actually cursor keys <enter>, <insert>, <del> are alread enough to build a tructured document) in a 2D-dependency tree. This facilitates a larger portion of the display for structuring (usually up to 300% more!) and allows to show/hide (un-/fold) specific subentries (not only all at a certain level). What I am also missing is management information like which portion has been modified when and by whom (necessary in a collaborative environment) as well as marking (e.g. flagging with "todo", "asigned to", etc. info) of the elements. I do agree that this issue should be resolved as a navigator enhancement.
Now I understand, that you wish a "Mind Map" feature in OOo. But I must tell you, that OOo-Writer is a word processor and so such a feature is so unlikely, that a issue is useless. But I set it to "OOo PleaseHelp", that means, that someone else might develope it, OOo is open source. For improvement of a structure view, there are already the issue 20701 and the issue 3959, so that here no new issue is necessary.
Reopened to reassign
Reassigned to requirements.
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