Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 87155
InputField in AutoText is broken: value entered is not displayed
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:22:46 UTC
-InputField in AutoText is broken: value entered is not displayed- - Writer document - Create UserField (Format Text) - Create InputField for UserField - Ctr-Shft-F9 > PopUp for InputField, Enter Value > Value visible - Select Text and via Ctrl-F3 > Autotext|New - New Document - Instert Autotext via Window/Short Name/Toolbar > PopUp for Imput field shows, Enter Value > Value Not shown Also, value present when Autotext was created is not shown. (Discovered in 2.4.0_RCx, but test on 2.2.0 (Linux) and 2.2.1(Win) shows the bug exist there as well.)
Created attachment 52166 [details] File with explanation and text ready to use for AutoText
(also posted issue 87156 for inconsistency when placing AT via API)
Reassigned to ES.
I cannot reproduce it. What do you mean with "Window/Short Name/Toolbar" (which you described as "Toolbar / Short name / Windo Ctrl-F3" in the attached document)???
There are three ways (maybe more) to insert an autotext. 1) Window = Ctrl-F3(Edit|AutoText), select Autotext and choose Insert 2) Short Name = type short name and then F3 3) Toolbar = click black triangle on the AutoText icon on the tool bar Insert and select the category and AutoText name In order to reproduce, you have to insert the autotext in another document, so not the one attached, that already holds a copy of the field. Sorry that I missed that in my first explanation.
...and that was "the" missing information. The Input Field does not work when the AutoText is inserted in a new document.
Just checked: it was already broken in 1.1.5 I was in the understandig that I had poposed the solution to a customer year or so ago. Obviously that they did not start using it ;-) There's some work going on on user input fields, to make it work with tabbing as in Word. When that implementation is finished and it makes the use of fields more popular, changing the target of this issue might be logic.
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".