| Summary: | Exporting a Master document and editing the subsequent exported file fails as the exported file is read-only | ||
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| Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Rohinton <rohinton.kazak> |
| Component: | Writer | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | enhancement | CC: | libreoffice-ux-advise, robinson.libreoffice |
| Priority: | medium | Keywords: | needsUXEval |
| Version: | 4.3.4.1 release | ||
| Hardware: | x86-64 (AMD64) | ||
| OS: | All | ||
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| Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
| Bug Depends on: | |||
| Bug Blocks: | 107805 | ||
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Description
Rohinton
2014-11-20 08:29:13 UTC
I have done a bit more digging and see the following, which may mean my expectation of export is incorrect. Basically I am using export to reconstitute the original document, as it was before I converted it to a 'Master' document. This way I can Save As... a different format, required by the receiver of this document. I see, via the navigator pane, a normal result as if this was a single document however in the 'Sections' section I guess what are the original links to the sub documents? And finally if I remove the entries from "Sections" I am back to my original document.... So is my assumption of Export reverting this back to a single document/file is incorrect, but it is the only way to get what I need. Is this just a documentation issue then? Why are the entries in the "Sections" there in the first place after an export? As removing them now gives me what I wanted. TESTING with LO 4.4.0.0.alpha2 + Ubuntu 14.04 (In reply to Rohinton from comment #0) > To reproduce: > > 1. create a document with some headings, I used header-1, > and minimal text under them. > > 2. (For OS X) I used File->Send To-> Create Master Document. > Follow instruction there. > > 3. Restart LO and edit the newly create master document. > > 4. Now use the File ->export menu option to export this > Master Document + sub-documents out to a new .odt document > file. ( There is only one choice! ). > > This now gives us a file the same as original, we hope. > > 5. Now try and edit this newly exported file, and we see that > LO thinks it's chapters are still read-only CONFIRMED (In reply to Rohinton from comment #1) > And finally if I remove the entries from "Sections" I am back to my original > document.... Indeed. Diffing the content.xml files, they look identical. > Is this just a documentation issue then? Why are the entries in the > "Sections" > there in the first place after an export? As removing them now gives me what > I wanted. Good question. I wouldn't expect the sections and read-only settings to remain after the conversion back to ODT, so let's mark this as an enhancement and change Status -> NEW. There is limited documentation about this behavior, but it doesn't explain why retaining read-protected sections is the default: https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Working_with_Master_Documents_and_Subdocuments#To_Export_a_Master_Document_as_a_LibreOffice_Text_Document At the very least, I think it would make sense to add a warning when converting ODM -> ODT. (In reply to Robinson Tryon (qubit) from comment #2) > At the very least, I think it would make sense to add a warning when > converting ODM -> ODT. Design team: what do you think? Exporting a master document to standard ODT converts the individual files into sections that link to the target document, which is more or less the same as a master document. It's well documented and I don't see a reason to change the behavior. Nevertheless this ticket is a duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 52444 *** |