Description: Custom date formatting for a field, located in footer is lost when ODT document is saved. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create a document, add SetVariable field of date type 2. Place a ShowVariable field for this var inside Footer and make it custom format, e.g. YYYY-YYYY 3. Save the document, then close it 4. Open the document - most likely everything will be fine, then modify the document, add some text and save it again and close it. 5. Open the document again Actual Results: See that the ShowVariable field in footer is now formatted as a number Expected Results: Writer should keep the field formatting set before. Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: Check this file - open it and see formatting is fine, save it, reopen and see formatting is lost https://www.dropbox.com/s/bzouksjx2k0ckju/FormattingBug.odt?dl=0 I'm unable to copy information from About LibreOffice on mac, sorry.
Created attachment 162307 [details] Document to reproduce the bug
This bug is not reproducible with 7.0 beta2 Version: 7.0.0.0.beta2 Build ID: 1c213561a365b5666167321de68c9977500c9612 CPU threads: 12; OS: Mac OS X 10.15.5; UI render: default; VCL: osx Locale: en-US (en_RU.UTF-8); UI: en-US Calc: threaded
Sound like a duplicate of bug 133459, which is fixed in master. Could you please try to reproduce it with a master build from http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/master/ ? You can install it alongside the standard version. I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to 'UNCONFIRMED' if the bug is still present in the master build
Yes, this is a duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 133459 ***