Description: As you can see in the video I have a simple file and a new odf file, and I want to insert a Concordance into a file. First: open concordance doesn find any file, I have to drag & drop. Second: after drag & drop no concordance is there... Steps to Reproduce: As you can see in the video I have a simple file and a new odf file, and I want to insert a Concordance into a file. First: open concordance doesn find any file, I have to drag & drop. Second: after drag & drop no concordance is there... Actual Results: No concordance. Hard to use. Expected Results: See the concordance Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: Yes Additional Info: Version: 6.4.5.2 Build ID: a726b36747cf2001e06b58ad5db1aa3a9a1872d6 CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 5.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3; Locale: ro-RO (ro_RO.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded
Created attachment 164909 [details] video showing the bug
Created attachment 164910 [details] the txt file (plain text) the txt file (plain text)
Created attachment 164911 [details] odf file from the video
I've tried to reproduce the bug, but LO asks for "Selection file for the alphabetical index" and format *sdi. I've never heard about that format, so I can't assess, if it is correct or not Version: 7.0.1.2 (x64) Build ID: 7cbcfc562f6eb6708b5ff7d7397325de9e764452 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19041; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: en-GB Calc: threaded
In documentation is stated that you can use a "plain text file". So a .txt file would be enough.
Your file does not have any content. So there is nothing from which the index can be created. A concordance file must have the extension .sdi. Nevertheless it is a "plain text" file. Your "concordance" file does not contain meaningful terms to look up in a text. Please get help on mailing list or Ask or look into the documentation, how the tool "condordance file" works. https://help.libreoffice.org/7.0/en-US/text/swriter/01/04120250.html https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/swriter/guide/indices_index.html Chapter 15 in the Writer Guide https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/a/a4/WG64-WriterGuide.pdf
Where is a mention of the .sdi file in the documentation?... I didn't find it. Neither in the Writer Documentation or in online help. I never used a concordance, but when reading the Guide for Writer I should find that I need a .sdi file.
From a technical point of view, a .txt file will work. But the file picker in the dialog filters on .sdi. You will need e.g. the *.* trick on Windows to see all files so that you are able to select the .txt file. So its easier to use .sdi as file name extension or rename an existing file accordingly.
Ok, I tested. Works with .sdi. But I consider this deserve to be mention in the documentation. Online or Writer Guide. On the same chapter I want to mention another problem with documentation, in Writer Guide. Would produce an entry for macaw with • A listing under macaw. • An alternate listing under ara (the scientific name). • A listing of Parrots, Macaw. <----- I CAN'T REPRODUCE THIS • No second key (notice the two semi-colons). • Inclusion of instances that start with a lower or upper case letter (both “macaw” and “Macaw”). • Inclusion of instances in which the term is a whole word or part of a longer word. I have attach 2 files in order to test this.
Created attachment 164935 [details] the project file
Created attachment 164936 [details] the concordance file
I can NOT reproduce this: "A listing of Parrots, Macaw." like it is said in the documentation at page 336. (Writer Guide)
Olivier Hallot committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/help/commit/be1d676ede16a062fcb2d557856df8ab8481e179 tdf#136320 more on concordance files
Fixed the documentation part.
Oliver, I want to ask you how I can test if this was fixed?...
Oliver, please mark this bug as resolved, and I will mark it as verified after that. Verified. Fixed in online documentation, but I think should be changed also in Writer Guide I mentioned in comment 12.
Verified: https://help.libreoffice.org/7.1/en-US/text/swriter/01/04120250.html?&DbPAR=WRITER&System=UNIX