Bug 164864 - navigator should show index entries
Summary: navigator should show index entries
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
25.8.0.0 alpha0+
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard: target:26.8.0
Keywords:
Depends on:
Blocks: TableofContents-Indexes Navigator
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Reported: 2025-01-26 13:49 UTC by Petr Smely
Modified: 2026-01-30 23:33 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Crash report or crash signature:


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screen shot of Navigator indexes enhancement (149.29 KB, image/png)
2025-12-02 09:42 UTC, Jim Raykowski
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Description Petr Smely 2025-01-26 13:49:42 UTC
Description:
finding index entries in a document (where there is no index defined (think of chapters being assembeld in a master)) is difficult. so, like bookmarks, they should appear in the navigator.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. define an index entry (preferable a user created index)
2. it appeares nowhere. esp. when changing the entry text, it gets only a very tiny mark in the document and so is really difficult to find.

Actual Results:
navigator does not show these entries

Expected Results:
nice to have them there


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
n/a
Comment 1 Dieter 2025-05-29 13:18:18 UTC
Jim, what do you think as the expert for navigator?
Comment 2 Jim Raykowski 2025-12-02 09:42:17 UTC
Created attachment 204373 [details]
screen shot of Navigator indexes enhancement

Here is effort to improve the Navigator Indexes category:
https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/194911
Comment 3 Commit Notification 2026-01-26 19:35:32 UTC
Jim Raykowski committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/a66fd0b6d9300a7def03658c1661cb6d5f609ab9

tdf#164864 SwNavigator should show index entries

It will be available in 26.8.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 4 Petr Smely 2026-01-30 15:10:50 UTC
can confirm working! thank you very much!

Version: 26.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64)
Build ID: 5a5af7828cbad8607fbb29e26b5131fd852d9384
CPU threads: 12; OS: Linux 6.17; UI render: default; VCL: kf5 (cairo+wayland)
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 5 Dieter 2026-01-30 22:57:34 UTC
(In reply to Petr Smely from comment #4)
> can confirm working! thank you very much!

Jim, is this fixed or is anything still missing?
Comment 6 Jim Raykowski 2026-01-30 23:33:33 UTC
Since Petr has confirmed it works, I think we can mark this as fixed.