Bug 162368 - send OUTLINE to clipboard -- according to the currently set "Outline Level" depth
Summary: send OUTLINE to clipboard -- according to the currently set "Outline Level" d...
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.4.7.2 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: File-Send
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Reported: 2024-08-06 08:04 UTC by peter josvai
Modified: 2025-12-26 03:12 UTC (History)
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Description peter josvai 2024-08-06 08:04:47 UTC
Description:
Hi, 

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a missing functionality. It could be fixed both ways.
The missing functionality would be: "send outline to clipboard (down to level 2)"
-- or something better sounding and briefer :) 
This functionality could be right below "send outline to clipboard", as a special version of it.

2

The other approach is the "bug fix"...
IN this, "Send Outline to Clipboard" should work according to the "Outline Level" that is set at the moment... and determines the view in NAVIGATOR... 
Say, you see levels down to 2, cause 2 is the current value set in "Outline Level"...
Then the exported "outline" should be have only levels 1 and 2, that is, down "to 2"...





Steps to Reproduce:
1. "F5", open navigator window, in "heading view"
2. in context menu set "Outline Level" to be "2"
3. Send OUtline to Clipboard

Actual Results:
The exported / "sent" / "generated" outline has the level depth of 10, 
that is, all levels are exported / sent.

The Outline Level (that is set to 2) has no influence on the "depth level" of the exported / generated outline.

Expected Results:
When "Outline Level" is set to 2, the exported outline should have the "depth" at 2...

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NOTE: for layman users this could be misleading... or even for users who in the past decades have learned that exporting the outline will always contain the whole of it, all levels, not just what  was set in the viewing mode...
This is why a an extra menu item, send "outline to clipboard (at depth: 2)" -- or something better -- would be a way more intuitive and "backward user-compatible" solution of this "problem" -- if this is a problem :)  (as I think it is)



Reproducible: Always


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Locale: en-US
Module: TextDocument
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OS: Linux (All)
OS is 64bit: yes
Comment 1 m_a_riosv 2024-08-06 20:11:59 UTC
Please attach a sample file to test.
Comment 2 Dieter 2024-08-18 10:49:16 UTC
(In reply to m_a_riosv from comment #1)
> Please attach a sample file to test.

=> NEEDINFO
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2025-11-25 15:17:55 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2025-12-26 03:12:45 UTC
Dear peter josvai,

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