Bug 124933 - Improve repair of broken cross-reference source
Summary: Improve repair of broken cross-reference source
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.1.5.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Fields-Cross-Reference
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Reported: 2019-04-24 14:13 UTC by Christian Lehmann
Modified: 2019-05-09 12:18 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Attachments
attempting to restore broken references (26.23 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2019-05-02 13:31 UTC, Christian Lehmann
Details

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Description Christian Lehmann 2019-04-24 14:13:15 UTC
Description:
References whose source is not found ("Error: Reference source not found") can be repaired (context menu - Edit Fields). If one then selects the intended source from the list, a new reference code is created. Instead, the old code should be associated with the source.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Right-click on a reference marked as an error as above.
2. Edit Fields
3. Select intended source from list.
4. OK.

Actual Results:
The code that was associated with the stranded reference is replaced by a new code which is assigned both to the source and to the reference.

Expected Results:
The old code, still associated with the reference, should be assigned to the selected source.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No


OpenGL enabled: Yes

Additional Info:
There may be more than one references in the document which are intended to refer to the same source. All of them are stranded if the code is lost from the source.
As it is now, each of the broken references is to be repaired manually by itself.
If the above suggestion were adopted, all of them would be repaired by repairing one of them.
Comment 1 Xisco Faulí 2019-05-02 11:54:44 UTC
Thank you for reporting the bug. Please attach a sample document, as this makes it easier for us to verify the bug. 
(Please note that the attachment will be public, remove any sensitive information before attaching it. 
See https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/FAQ#How_can_I_eliminate_confidential_data_from_a_sample_document.3F for help on how to do so.)

I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to 'UNCONFIRMED' once the requested document is provided.
Comment 2 Christian Lehmann 2019-05-02 13:31:54 UTC
Created attachment 151131 [details]
attempting to restore broken references

Here is an ODT file containing several automatically numbered examples with references to them, broken in different ways. A broken reference cannot be restored; the most one can do is creating an entirely new reference.
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2019-05-08 21:50:36 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 Dieter 2019-05-09 12:18:16 UTC
I confirm ith with

Version: 6.3.0.0.alpha0+ (x64)
Build ID: 421e6fc3cd2e6fe37afbef341e2d0ad7b8edde37
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: GL; VCL: win; 
TinderBox: Win-x86_64@42, Branch:master, Time: 2019-04-07_01:12:58
Locale: en-US (de_DE); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded

The problem becomes more critical, since you can't search for such broken references (see bug 87328). So in a huge document with many cross-references you might overlock such an error.