@Jim : did you force an update of the fields ?
(in Tools → Options → LibreOffice Writer → General, Update, Fields)

What you are describing sounds like bug 76794, but it would be helpful if you could provide a sample document so that we could attempt to reproduce the situation.

Setting NEEDINFO status as a result. Please set back to UNCONFIRMED when you have provided the requested information (and test file).

Created attachment 126548 [details]
test case for cross-reference bug (101263)

I tried to attach two alternatives, one in .docx format, the other in .odt, but I haven't figured out how through this interface.

Created attachment 126549 [details]
.docx version of crossreference problem

Okay, here's the .docx version as well.

For what it's worth, this may be related to the but you reference (76794), but it is not the same. 76794 refers to failure to renumber correctly. The problem I am reporting occurs on initial insertion of a cross-reference.

Created attachment 126550 [details]
illustration of cross-reference problem with 5.1.4.2 release

Documentation that the problem persists in latest stable release.

Thansk Jim, will test and report back.

@Jim : from your last comment, am I correct in understanding that the problem initially occurs on a DOCX document ?

Does the ODT document you provided come from a DOCX document originally ?

I am trying to narrow down the problem to of :

- a filter issue when importing from / exporting to docx ; 

or

- a problem with cross-referencing that is directly linked to the internal representation of an ODT file in application memory.


My understanding at present is that you have started from a DOCX file, or that you save your file directly to DOCX rather than ODT. 


Setting back to NEEDINFO

Reproducible steps :

1) open a new Writer document.
2) Type a phrase and insert an endnote at the end of the line.
3) Press Enter (paragraph return).
4) Type another phrase and insert another endnote at the end of the line.
5) Press enter (paragraph return)
6) Type a third phrase and insert another endnote at the end of the line.
7) Press enter (paragraph return)

8) Note how the default numbering for these endnotes is roman numbering.

8) Type a fourth phrase and insert a cross-reference to endnote ii. A digit "2" is inserted at the selected point. Clicking on this digit takes you to endnote ii.

9) Type some more text and now insert a cross-reference to endnote i. A digit "2" is inserted at the selected point, but clicking on this digit takes you to endnote i.

10) Type some more text again and insert a cross-reference to endnote iii. A digit "2" is inserted at the selected point, and clicking on this digit takes you to endnote iii.


CONFIRMING

The question now is whether this is a regression, and if so, when did it previously work correctly.

@Jim : you can ignore my question, I managed to reproduce the problem for myself. Thanks for your input.

Note that there appeart to be a considerable number of bugs related to cross-referencing that have been around for a while, so this particular bug may not get resolved anytime soon.

At your request, I tested the latest offered stable version (5.4.7.2) to see whether this has been fixed. No, the problem remains. I will try to attach my test document. It explores the problem a bit further. The test document was originally created in 5.4.7.2 as a .odt - it has never been a .docx.

Not sure what status to assign. Default is NEW, and it seems as good as any at this point.

Created attachment 142221 [details]
test of Bug 101263

Repro 7.3+. Seems Inherited.
I raise to Major because a LO component is not working right even in ODT, this is not some specific sample marked as "normal". 
Cannot be updated with F9 so bug 76794 only to See Also.

I cannot reproduce this issue in LibreOffice version 7.2.2.2. Yes, the documents in this report still contain numbering errors, but I cannot reproduce these by recreating the exact same documents:

- cross-references to endnotes and footnotes display the chosen numbering character.
- cross-references to endnotes and footnotes are displayed in the right numbering order.
- cross-references to endnotes and footnotes link to the correct endnotes and footnotes.

Am I missing something or is this issue more specific? I'm on Windows and I didn't import Microsoft Office documents with cross-references.

The only way to reproduce the faulty documents is to insert the endnotes and footnotes in the wrong order. Therefore, LibreOffice does not update the endnote and footnote lists automatically. This issue corresponds to bug #76794; so from my point of view, it is a duplicate issue.

What Jim and Alex describe here is the default behaviour of showing the page number for the endnotes (rather the endnote's number).
When adding an cross-reference, the default selection in the bottom-left is "page number (unstyled)". To use the endnote's numbering, one has to change it to "Referenced text".

See: https://help.libreoffice.org/7.6/en-US/text/swriter/01/04090002.html?System=UNIX&DbPAR=WRITER&HID=modules/swriter/ui/fldrefpage/FieldRefPage#bm_id3149042