Bug 34942 - Auto fill URL from click in Hyperlink Dialog also changes Text field
Summary: Auto fill URL from click in Hyperlink Dialog also changes Text field
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
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Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: low trivial
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Blocks: Hyperlink
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Reported: 2011-03-02 12:39 UTC by James Ronback
Modified: 2024-09-30 16:55 UTC (History)
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Description James Ronback 2011-03-02 12:39:15 UTC 
Test to demonstrate problems in trying to create hyperlinks using copy and paste:

1) Set up a blank page and using Tools set up a hyperlink bar
2) Add the following line to the page:
        Death Risk Rankings,  http://www.deathriskrankings.com/tutorial2.aspx .
3) Copy and paste “Death Risk Rankings” into the target text
4) Note: The selected text starts to appear as text in the target field as you are selecting the text in the document with the cursor, so it begs the question whether you still have to paste it when it is already appears there.
5) Click the cursor in the blank URL field.( Just to be safe but it should not be necessary).
6) Select the URL from the document with your cursor.
7) Note: As soon as you lift you finger off the mouse, the URL appears in BOTH the target text field and the URL field, thus wiping out the the previous text “Death Risk Rankings” in the target field.
8) Paste the URL in the URL field.
9) To try and recover the target, select “Death Risk Rankings” in the document 
10) Note: As as you lift you finger off the mouse the text automatically appears in the target field and the URL field becomes BLANK.
11) Thus you are forced to type in at least one of the fields manually.

I think the problem is related to automatically filling in the target field as you are selecting text from the document with a mouse. This automatic anticipation of what is going to pasted should be turned off when using the hyperlink bar
Comment 1 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2011-03-02 23:48:52 UTC 
[Reproducible] with "LibreOffice 3.3.1  - WIN7  Home Premium (64bit) English UI  [OOO330m19 (build 8 / tag 3.3.1.2)]"

Steps to reproduce:
1. copy / paste complete text of reporter's step 2 into a new blank writer
   document
2. make sure that the hyperlink is a real working hyperlink, not only text

Now we will try to get the hyperlink into text "Death Risk Rankings"

4. Select text "Death Risk Rankings" (using mouse)
5. Menu "Insert Hyperlink"
   Dialog opens, Tex will be already inserted into Text pane, that's comfortable
6. leave dialog open
7. only for testing, selecct some text by mouse or simply move the cursor caret 
   through the document. Dialog text pane always will show welected text, 
   not the text of the caret position (so Text pane will become empty as soon 
   as you start moving caret through document)
8. Reselct  text "Death Risk Rankings"
9. Click into Target pane
10. Click on hyplerink "http://www.deathriskrankings.com/tutorial2.aspx"
    Expected: should be inserted into target pane
    Actual: as expected, but additionally
       unexpected: Text pane also fille dwith hyperlink, 
                   Linked web page became opened in browser.

I did lots of tests, but I did not succeed in using autofill to fill Text pane with text and additionally Target pane with hyperlink

Currently the autofill function only works if caret position is in a word with a "hidden" hyperlink when you open the hyperlink dialog:
- Text word will be shown in Text pane
- Hyperlink will be shown in Hyperlink pane
But IMHO that's only nice information, but not usable for creation of new hyperlinks 

My Summary:
- Help should contribute information concerning auto fill
- Auto difficult to use, you only can fill 1 pane with this function, other 
  one has to be filled from clipboard 8or manual typing)
- Ideas for a solution:
  - Text pane with contents should not be modified with recognized hyperlink
    or nothing, only with a new plain text selection
  - Target pane with contents should not be modified with recognized plain text
    or nothing, only with a new recognized hyperlink
 - Additionally a Hyperlink should not be executed as long as Dialog is open

@Kendy:
Added you to CC because of Missing Help problem. Any Idea who oculd be the right one to fix the dialog problem?

@James Ronback:
The ideal place for your (much better) new comment would have been
Bug 34855 - Unable to create hyperlink by copy and paste
Comment 2 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2011-05-29 09:39:17 UTC 
Obsolete due to 
"Bug 34413 - Menu entry "Hyperlink bar" not checked if activated" Comment 3?
Comment 3 Björn Michaelsen 2011-12-23 11:50:54 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 sasha.libreoffice 2012-02-24 23:45:45 UTC 
reproduced in 3.5.0 on Fedora 64 bit
Comment 5 A (Andy) 2014-08-02 11:12:04 UTC 
reproducible with LO 4.3.0.4 (Win 8.1)
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2015-09-04 02:48:46 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2016-09-20 10:29:57 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 Timur 2019-07-02 09:47:28 UTC 
Repro 6.4+. But not major, I'd say trivial because you can previously copy hyperlink instead of just clicking in URL.
Comment 9 QA Administrators 2021-07-02 03:42:52 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 10 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2021-07-02 08:16:32 UTC 
😥
Comment 11 QA Administrators 2023-07-03 03:11:58 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
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