The ToC/Index insertion dialog seems to force you to specify a title; and an empty title on the dialog removes the title paragraph from the ToC/Index. Instead, there should be an explicit toggle of whether or not a title should be used. Guessing that empty means no title is a bit onerous and, IIANM, this is not a common practice in LO dialogs.
I confirm the described behaviour, but I don't think, it's a bug. Preview also shows no title, if title-entry is empty. cc: design-team for further input and decision
(In reply to Dieter from comment #1) > Preview also shows no title, if title-entry is empty. This is non-intuitive, and is not consistent with other behavior in LO. You can have an empty footer, an empty paragraph, or an empty caption. So you're not supposed to have to assume that "empty title" = "no title".
Better compare with caption and if you leave the field empty you get an empty caption. Wouldn't expect anything else. Admittedly, the checkbox is convenient (and we have space) but I don't see a pattern.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #3) > I don't see a pattern. Can you explain that phrase?
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #2) > ... is not consistent with other behavior in LO. I don't see this pattern, meaning consistency in terms of input fields that are in use if a checkbox is checked or otherwise mean empty content.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #5) > I don't see this pattern, meaning consistency in terms of input fields that > are in use if a checkbox is checked or otherwise mean empty content. Ah. So, I didn't mean consistency in terms of an input field, but rather consistency in terms of dichotomy between non-empty and non-existence: Footer can be empty Header can be empty Footnote can be empty, sort of Endnote can be empty, sort of Heading paragraph can be empty Comment can be empty Caption can be empty ToC title can't be empty Given all the rest, the user is unlikely to realize that an empty title means no-title, and would waste time trying to look for a checkbox which doesn't exist.
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #6) > ... the user is unlikely to realize that an empty title means no-title Don't think so. And, as Dieter pointed out, we have a preview.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #7) > Don't think so. And, as Dieter pointed out, we have a preview. The preview helps me clearly, indeed.
The topic was on the agenda of the design meeting. The alternative to just clearing the text field is to have a checkbox "[x] Use title" and enable the input respectively. It improves consistency, clarifies the behavior for novice user, and makes the label "Type and Title" more appropriate. Plus, we have enough space and the enhancement is an easy hack. Code pointer: * add the checkbox to sw/uiconfig/swriter/ui/tocindexpage.ui * add variables and logic to sw/source/ui/index/cnttab.cxx; likely in FillTOXDescription() rDesc.SetTitle(m_xTitleED->get_text());