https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116015
Bug ID: 116015
Summary: the online Help for Writer's Edit Fields is a 404
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 5.4.1.2 release
Hardware: All
OS: Windows (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Documentation
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: i...@skierpage.com
CC: olivier.hal...@documentfoundation.org
1. Open Libre Office Writer's "Modern business letter serif" template.
2. Wonder how to fill in fields like <Sender's name> and <Company Name>.
3. (This would be a brick wall for most users...)
4. Right click on one, choose Fields; in the Edit Fields dialog that appears
choose Help then Read Help Online.
Result: my browser launches and goes to
https://help.libreoffice.org/swriter/modules/swriter/ui/editfielddialog/next?Language=en-US&System=WIN&Version=5.4
but that page is a 404. It seems nothing in that path works, nor does
.../editfieldSdialog.
Other dialogs have online help that sort of works, e.g. Styles > Edit Style >
Font > Help goes to
https://help.libreoffice.org/index.php?title=Swriter/cui/ui/charnamepage/westfontnamelb-nocjk&redirect=no
which somehow redirects to
https://help.libreoffice.org/swriter/cui/ui/charnamepage/westfontnamelb-nocjk?Language=en-US&System=WIN&Version=5.4
which finally has a link to something.
Expected result: Read Help Online should load a relevant URL. I can't find one
specific to 5.4 but there is https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Edit_Fields
Since this is likely to be a user's first exposure to a field, that help
specific to the Edit Field dialog should link to something more general about
fields, perhaps
https://help.libreoffice.org/5.4/en-US/text/swriter/guide/fields.html?&DbPAR=WRITER&System=WIN
And the basic beginner "How to get default templates in Writer to not have
<SomeFieldName>/Placeholder all over them" issue needs to be covered. I
thought Tools > Options > Libre Office > User Data would do it (help at
https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/User_Data#bm_id3152801 ), but that doesn't
seem to work here.
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