Bug 116015 - the online Help for Writer's Edit Fields is a 404
Summary: the online Help for Writer's Edit Fields is a 404
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.4.1.2 release
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Olivier Hallot
URL:
Whiteboard: target:6.1.0
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Reported: 2018-02-25 22:40 UTC by skierpage
Modified: 2018-02-26 14:47 UTC (History)
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Description skierpage 2018-02-25 22:40:39 UTC
1. Open Libre Office Writer's "Modern business letter serif" template.
2. Wonder how to fill in fields like <Sender's name> and <Company Name>.
3. (This would be a brick wall for most users...)
4. Right click on one, choose Fields; in the Edit Fields dialog that appears choose Help then Read Help Online.

Result: my browser launches and goes to https://help.libreoffice.org/swriter/modules/swriter/ui/editfielddialog/next?Language=en-US&System=WIN&Version=5.4
but that page is a 404. It seems nothing in that path works, nor does .../editfieldSdialog.

Other dialogs have online help that sort of works, e.g. Styles > Edit Style > Font > Help goes to https://help.libreoffice.org/index.php?title=Swriter/cui/ui/charnamepage/westfontnamelb-nocjk&redirect=no which somehow redirects to https://help.libreoffice.org/swriter/cui/ui/charnamepage/westfontnamelb-nocjk?Language=en-US&System=WIN&Version=5.4 which finally has a link to something.

Expected result: Read Help Online should load a relevant URL. I can't find one specific to 5.4 but there is https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Edit_Fields

Since this is likely to be a user's first exposure to a field, that help specific to the Edit Field dialog should link to something more general about fields, perhaps https://help.libreoffice.org/5.4/en-US/text/swriter/guide/fields.html?&DbPAR=WRITER&System=WIN

And the basic beginner "How to get default templates in Writer to not have <SomeFieldName>/Placeholder all over them" issue needs to be covered.  I thought Tools > Options > Libre Office > User Data would do it (help at https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/User_Data#bm_id3152801 ), but that doesn't seem to work here.
Comment 1 Olivier Hallot 2018-02-26 13:27:12 UTC
Missing help page for editfielddialog.ui
Comment 2 Commit Notification 2018-02-26 14:12:11 UTC
Olivier Hallot committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/help/commit/?id=73f04500d86e8daca46347aa25fd916e708f77a6

tdf#116015 Add help for edit field dialog