Bug 161771 - Exporting a content control with an empty value to DOCX produces a document unreadable in Word
Summary: Exporting a content control with an empty value to DOCX produces a document u...
Status: ASSIGNED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
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Assignee: Miklos Vajna
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Keywords: filter:docx
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Blocks: DOCX-Content_Control
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Reported: 2024-06-25 06:21 UTC by Mike Kaganski
Modified: 2024-06-29 18:13 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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An SDT with a dropdown with an empty value (607 bytes, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
2024-06-25 06:21 UTC, Mike Kaganski 		Details
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Description Mike Kaganski 2024-06-25 06:21:13 UTC 
Created attachment 194941 [details]
An SDT with a dropdown with an empty value

Open the attached document in Writer, and save as a DOCX. The resulting DOCX produces an error when opening in MS Word:

> Word experienced an error trying to open the file.

The empty values are possible in Writer, but impossible in Word. Making the value attribute in the DOCX to be a space " " fixes the problem.
Comment 1 J_A 2024-06-25 10:39:54 UTC 
Hello Mike Kaganski,

Thank you for reporting the bug. I can confirm that the bug is present in the master version.

Tested using:
Version: 24.2.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: d56cc158d8a96260b836f100ef4b4ef25d6f1a01
CPU threads: 16; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded
Comment 2 Miklos Vajna 2024-06-28 12:46:01 UTC 
This is related to bug 161708, let me see.