https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71675
Priority: medium
Bug ID: 71675
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Summary: Bibilography - Many issues
Severity: major
Classification: Unclassified
OS: All
Reporter: bba...@gmail.com
Hardware: Other
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Version: 4.1.2.3 release
Component: Writer
Product: LibreOffice
Created attachment 89319
--> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=89319&action=edit
Example Bibliography where database fields do not get populated
In Writer, there are many bugs with the Bibliography feature:
Upon Insert --> Indexes and Table --> Indexes and Tables --> Bibliography one
needs to make sure that both:
1) The Structure under the Entries tab never changes anymore for all Types
(e.g. Books, Journals, Research Reports) that are used.
2) All fields populated in the Bibliography database never change anymore.
Otherwise, if the Databases fields change later or if the Bibliography
Structure is ever changed later, any changes may not take effect in the
Bibliography in the document. Whether changes take effect in the Bibliography
ih document seems to be completely random.
Examples:
a) If a space gets added in the Structure after the Author, then this may not
appear in the Bibliography in the document.
b) If a field gets added to the Structure (e.g Volume), this may not get added
to the Bibliography in the document. An empty space at the location may appear
in the Bibliography the document where a database field is supposed to get
populated (see attached screenshot).
c) If a Bibliography database field gets added or changed (e.g. a change of
Author name from A. Einstein to Einstein, A.), this field may not appear or get
updated in the Bibliography in the document after performing an Update
Index/Table on the Bibliography in the document.
d) If a Bibliography entry gets added to the document and an Update Index/Table
on the Bibliography in the document is performed, duplicate numbering of
entries may occur in the Bibliography. This issue may get resolved by
performing another Update Index/Table on the Bibliography (but the issue may
also persist).
e) If fields get changed in the top part of the database then may not get
updated in the bottom form.
Some of those issues can only be resolved by removing all Bibliography Entries
form the document, Deleting the Bibliography, recreating the Bibliography in
the document and adding the entries in the document again. Obviously this is
extremely cumbersome.
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