Bug 163474 - Selecting multiple fields and typing makes field disappear
Summary: Selecting multiple fields and typing makes field disappear
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.6.0.4 release
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
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Blocks: DOCX-Fields
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Reported: 2024-10-16 15:48 UTC by Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
Modified: 2024-11-05 03:16 UTC (History)
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Two fields filled and selected before typing (31.63 KB, image/png)
2024-10-16 15:48 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
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The document after typing, the first field was selected last (26.22 KB, image/png)
2024-10-16 15:49 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
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The document after typing, the second field was selected last (29.78 KB, image/png)
2024-10-16 15:49 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (allotropia)
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Description Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2024-10-16 15:48:18 UTC
Created attachment 197093 [details]
Two fields filled and selected before typing

This is a followup to bug 160163 / bug 150037

If there are two fields selected in the example file attachment 181299 [details] and two fields are selected, then by typing makes one of them disappear.

1. Open attachment 181299 [details] 
2. Type something into the two text fields after CREATED BY
3. Ctrl-Doubleclick on both of them to get them selected
4. Type a letter or press Backspace or Delete
-> the letter goes into the field selected last, or the default placeholder is reset to default, while the other field becomes zero length

What should happen is probably that the last selected field should get the input (or maybe all of them should get the same?), other should be reset to default placeholder.

Word does not allow multi-selection of such fields, so it gives no pointer into what can be done in such a case.

Version: 25.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 8a6919f39b4b871904a2a4199755ca619aa707e2
CPU threads: 14; OS: Windows 10 X86_64 (10.0 build 19045); UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: hu-HU (hu_HU); UI: en-US
Calc: default

and back to 3.6 or so when the original file first became imported in a usable way.
Comment 1 Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2024-10-16 15:49:23 UTC
Created attachment 197094 [details]
The document after typing, the first field was selected last
Comment 2 Gabor Kelemen (allotropia) 2024-10-16 15:49:56 UTC
Created attachment 197095 [details]
The document after typing, the second field was selected last
Comment 3 raal 2024-11-04 17:11:08 UTC
Confirm with Version: 25.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: b0195d40f3abc343b88f767f4fe109a9c1d44347
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: cs-CZ (cs_CZ.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded