Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 95822
Cross-referencing between subdocuments
Last modified: 2008-12-06 19:38:53 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.
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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.
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