I have extensive document automation: custom fields for version, confidentiality classification, copyright, and issue date are a few of the fields. They are used throughout the doc (intro, footers...). They still have the old values in the document, but now File -> Properties shows 'info 1' through 'info 4' and nothing else. I have a lot of these documents - and templates for them. Please tell me there's a workaround or a fix. I can't find any other mention of custom fields except that they've been 'revamped' in 3.3.0 (and that scares me...). I don't want to go back to OOO. I sure hope there's a way around this. And my need is 'ASAP' though not urgent. I can work in MS-Word for a day or two until I figure this one out. Many thanks. /Bill
*bump*. I've gone back to OOO. This is a debilitating loss of functionality. Standards or no standards, you've left many out in the cold with these changes. Fix this, and we won't have to live in an oracle world :-( /Bill
Hi, I am also facing the same problem. I am usinh LibreOffice 3.3.2. I have create one .odt document, added two custom properties - Name and Age. Save and re-open the document, all the properties and values are preserved. Save as the same document as .doc format, close and re-open, all the custom properties are gone. Thanks, Meenakshi Same thing (custom properties) are working fine in Openoffice.org 3.2.0.(In reply to comment #1) > *bump*. > > I've gone back to OOO. This is a debilitating loss of functionality. > Standards or no standards, you've left many out in the cold with these changes. > > Fix this, and we won't have to live in an oracle world :-( > > /Bill (In reply to comment #0) > I have extensive document automation: custom fields for version, > confidentiality classification, copyright, and issue date are a few of the > fields. They are used throughout the doc (intro, footers...). They still have > the old values in the document, but now File -> Properties shows 'info 1' > through 'info 4' and nothing else. > > I have a lot of these documents - and templates for them. Please tell me > there's a workaround or a fix. I can't find any other mention of custom fields > except that they've been 'revamped' in 3.3.0 (and that scares me...). > > I don't want to go back to OOO. I sure hope there's a way around this. And my > need is 'ASAP' though not urgent. I can work in MS-Word for a day or two until > I figure this one out. > > Many thanks. > > /Bill
Please fix this problem too ! This bug is highly blocking in professional environnement and prohibits migration from OOo to LibreOffice.
I can confirm this issue on W7 and Linux. It is still broken in LO 3.4. And I can confirm that the problem inhibits migration from OOo to LO. I need this feature to be able to insert Zotero references, see bug 38981, so I stay with OOo.
I can't confirm that for documents created with OOo 3.1.1 with "LibreOffice 3.4.2 - WIN7 Home Premium (64bit) German UI [OOO340m1 (Build:203)]". Saving document as .doc (2000/xp) from LibO and reopening shows all fields. I was able to reproduce he problem with documents created with OOo 3.1.1, and "LibreOffice Portable 3.3.3 - WIN7 Home Premium (64bit) German UI [OOO330m19 (Build:301 Tag 3.3.3.1)]". So it seems the problem has been fixed in between. @all: Please feel free to reopen this bug if you find out that the problem still exists with the current stable LibreOffice version and if you can contribute requireed additional information due to <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport> (especially BugReport Details): a) source document b) result after you have saved it from LibO c) Step by step instruction due to <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport>