Bug 120221 - Help: XML Source page lacks information that this is an experimental feature
Summary: Help: XML Source page lacks information that this is an experimental feature
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Whiteboard: target:6.2.0
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Blocks: Help-Changes-Features Data-XMLsource
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Reported: 2018-09-30 19:14 UTC by Thomas Lendo
Modified: 2018-10-26 07:43 UTC (History)
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Description Thomas Lendo 2018-09-30 19:14:34 UTC
The XML Source help page lacks information that this is an experimental feature. I would test a file in a bug report but the Data > 'XML Source' menu item in Calc was deactivated (greyed out). In the web I found the info that this is an experimental feature and I had to activate that in the options. Other users, maybe one who don't know about experimental features, will hardly find this info or will know anything about experimental features. 

https://help.libreoffice.org/6.1/en-US/text/scalc/01/xml_source.html

Suggestion:
Add an info box that this is an experimental feature and a link to https://help.libreoffice.org/6.1/en-US/text/shared/optionen/java.html?DbPAR=SHARED#bm_id4077578 -- maybe with a warning that experimental features are not for average users due to crashes, the end of the world, whatever.
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2018-10-23 18:39:31 UTC
The note can be added with
<embed href="text/shared/optionen/experimental.xhp#experimental"/>
Comment 2 Commit Notification 2018-10-25 20:32:23 UTC
Ilmari Lauhakangas committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/help/commit/?id=c6c0ddc60fec391d21a65b77b9b76066bfd0c2e7

tdf#120221 Add experimental note
Comment 3 Thomas Lendo 2018-10-26 07:43:54 UTC
Verified.
Thank you!