Open Tools >Options >LibreOffice >UserData and make sure that the field "initials" is not empty. Take a Writer document, go to Insert > Fields > Others > tab Document, Type Sender and insert the field "Initials". Save and close document. Examine the content.xml. You will find element <loext:sender-initials> but it should be <text:sender-initials>. See http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/OpenDocument-v1.2-os-part1.html#__RefHeading__1415276_253892949 LibreOffice must not use own namespace, if an ODF element exists. I don't know, when this has been introduced. Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2 does it right. LibreOffice version 4.2 does not write the field at all.
Hi Regina, I confirm <loext:sender-initials> with LO 4.3.0.0.beta1 Build ID: b7cfa1eab1cb1e94f71d6df6612b73f231d0bf92 and upper versies, but not with LO 4.2.8.1 Build ID: 4044db1653798618515c987464157abee9229c11 and lesser versies until LO 3.5.3.2 ID : 235ab8a-3802056-4a8fed3-2d66ea8-e241b80 where I find: <text:sender-initials>. Windows 7 Home or Windows NT 6.1
If the saving format is set to strict ODF 1.2, then the field is not saved at all, although it is shown in the document when creating the field. So this is information lost. It seems the problem was introduced with bug 72697, therefore set Eike in CC.
Argh.. That was supposed to change the name only for annotation initials, where ODF does not allow <text:sender-initials>, but not general fields.
Eike Rathke committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=29f250c428953750ce89dec7ee961723478609c1 Resolves: tdf#107438 write <text:sender-initials> for fields It will be available in 6.0.0. 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.
Pending review https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/39011 for 5-4 https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/39012 for 5-3
Eike Rathke committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-4": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=a51022cebf8b515a7913d767a8c5f6886dc64720&h=libreoffice-5-4 Resolves: tdf#107438 write <text:sender-initials> for fields It will be available in 5.4.0.1. 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.
Eike Rathke committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-5-3": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=cfb44fa3fa5449319c61023b9f9fb52ae87acc04&h=libreoffice-5-3 Resolves: tdf#107438 write <text:sender-initials> for fields It will be available in 5.3.5. 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.
Works with LO 6.0.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 643da8ec4e721d33dfdf8d78bedd50a915f1188d CPU threads: 2; OS: Windows 6.1; UI render: default; TinderBox: Win-x86@42, Branch:master, Time: 2017-06-26_01:24:22 Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR); Calc: CL Thank you Eike.