To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=107865 Issue #|107865 Summary|local linked sections do not update automatically Component|Word processor Version|OOO310m11 Platform|All URL| OS/Version|All Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|ENHANCEMENT Priority|P3 Subcomponent|editing Assigned to|writerneedsconfirm Reported by|unordained
------- Additional comments from unordai...@openoffice.org Wed Dec 23 23:10:18 +0000 2009 ------- I see the reasoning behind "update all links" happening only when opening the document, or upon user request, when the linked content is in another file. But if you need a section to appear in two places in the same document, one editable and one read-only, it sure would be nice if editing one immediately updated the other. The "update all links" option isn't visible by default; if users are opening a document, fixing up something wrong in the first section, they're not going to realize that to get the second section to update, they have to either enable a menu item (painful) and use it every time they make a change, or save, close and re-open the document. In this scenario immediate auto-update seems quite preferable -- it's likely to happen anyway next time the document's opened. This isn't an issue of wanting to preserve an old version of that same section elsewhere in the document. In my case, it's a legal document, and the two copies MUST match exactly. I found some reports of sections auto-updating themselves when going to print the document, but that didn't seem to be the case for me. As a sidenote, I've found that openoffice knows that a blank xlink:href in the text:section-source tag means "self", there doesn't have to be a file name when you create a linked section (the ODF spec says the field is implied, but doesn't speak to this point.) I appreciate this, because I'm generating documents via XSL, and I'd prefer not to have to know the document's final file name for the sections I'm embedding in it to be able to refer to the current document itself. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: issues-unsubscr...@sw.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sw.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
