https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159678
Bug ID: 159678
Summary: heading fields in headers and footers do not track
heading content through the document
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: v+li...@nevcal.com
Created attachment 192503
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basic document to demonstrate bug.
Based on the recommendation at the link, this seems to be a regression bug.
https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/header-fields-not-tracking-header-values/101951/2
At the above link, the claim is made by mikekaganski that this was working in
version 7.6. I appreciate his help.
LibreOffice 24.2.0.3 on Windows 10 64-bit
I’ve done a bunch of searching trying to figure out how to have a field in my
header track the headings in my data, and I had set up some styles I thought
would work, and nothing worked, so finally I made what I think is a basic file,
using default styles, and it doesn’t work either, so now I’m wondering if I’ve
been reading the wrong documentation, if the documentation is wrong or
insufficient, or if there is a bug.
Below is the simple file, containing a header and a footer with the field for
heading 9 content. Then there are some pairs of heading 9 styles and a default
paragraph followed by a bunch of blanks. to get me to two pages.
The Heading seems to pick up the first instance (CAT) of the heading 9 content,
but doesn’t switch to a later one on page 2. The footer also picks up the first
instance (CAT) of the heading 9 content, but since there are two of them on
page 2, and from my research, I thought it should display the last heading 9
content on page 1 (DOG). I thought the header of page 2 should have (DOG), and
the foot of page 2 should have (GOPHER). But the CAT is everywhere!
So what basic feature have I misunderstood or isn’t working in this very simple
file? While I’ve been using Writer for a while, this is the first attempt at
using these fields and headers, and I’m stumped, in spite of finding lots of
similar questions, and attempting to follow the similar answers in my more
complex format, but now I see I don’t even understand how to get dynamic field
values using the very most basic format.
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