Currently, one needs to call reset_view after calling set_part to refresh the view, and show the next part of the document. Ideally, set_part should do it internally.
I'm setting this to NEW as no one will confirm this anyway..
Pranav Kant committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=dbd7ce16d621bf992a763317174c85a5d9f3b5ea tdf#97236: Refresh the view when part is changed It will be available in 5.2.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.