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.
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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.
[Automated Action] NeedInfo-To-Unconfirmed
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.