This feature has been adopted by many other kinds of apps other than web browsers. IDEs have the feature, The Mac Finder has the feature, etc. Writer should have the feature. A further enhancement, which is implemented in the IntelliJ IDEA IDE, is to go to the previous/next site where something changed. These buttons are like back/forward except that they skip the locations where no modification was made.
Great idea, I am sure. Are you willing to help?
Sorry, can't. Must work for food.
Created attachment 46515 [details] Screenshot Do we talk about the buttons you see in my screenshot?
Are we talking about buttons seen in your screen shot? Yes. Is it real?
'View > Toolbars > Navigation' should show hide that buttons. I am not 100% sure whether that has not been added by en Extension. @Dave Yost @reporter: Please feel free to reopen this bug if you find out that the problem still exists with 3.4
Yes, in 3.4b3 I have a 'View > Toolbars > Navigation' menu item, and it does cause Back and Forward buttons to appear in the toolbar. But what do they do? I entered some text, moved the caret to different places then made edits at each place. The <- -> buttons remained disabled. They should have taken me to each of the different places within the buffer where I had done some work. Perhaps they're just document-level forward and back? Not as useful as the proposal.
Hello (In reply to comment #6) > Yes, in 3.4b3 I have a 'View > Toolbars > Navigation' menu item, and it does > cause Back and Forward buttons to appear in the toolbar. But what do they do? > > I entered some text, moved the caret to different places then made edits at > each place. The <- -> buttons remained disabled. They should have taken me to > each of the different places within the buffer where I had done some work. This toolbar appears not to be dedicated to tracking changes, but to the history of navigation. To convince you simply double-click on chapter titles in the navigator. However, for information, this toolbar is also enabled by Edit> Changes> Accept/Reject (with an incorrect operation) Cf. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38433 Best regards
Forward/Back browser style buttons are implemented in writer but not in Calc. They are designed to allow you to follow hyperlinks and then navigate "Back" to the starting point, ie, the location of the first hyperlink that was clicked. My spreadhseets contain many hyperlinks that typically navigate to other worksheets within the spreadsheet. A "Back" button is absolutely essential from my point of view; I cannot migrate to Calc until is has been implemented. I would be enormously grateful if this enhancement was given a high priority.
Never confirmed by QA team - moving to UNCONFIRMED.
(In reply to Dave Yost from comment #0) > This feature has been adopted by many other kinds of apps other than web > browsers. IDEs have the feature, The Mac Finder has the feature, etc. > > Writer should have the feature. So what are the buttons supposed to do? (In reply to Dave Yost from comment #6) > I entered some text, moved the caret to different places then made edits at > each place. The <- -> buttons remained disabled. They should have taken me > to each of the different places within the buffer where I had done some work. Sounds like an interesting tool. Especially if it somehow integrated with some versioning and highlighting, so when you navigated to an edit, you'd somehow have a visual representation of the edit diff. Not that I'm trying to take over your enhancement request! :-) Status -> NEW UX will want to weigh-in here, so tossing it to them.
We're replacing our use of the 'ux-advise' component with a keyword: Component -> LibreOffice Add Keyword: needsUXEval [NinjaEdit]
Enhancement requests without a use case make not much sense. What is the forward/backward function good for? Who uses it in what situation? Anyway, in comment 8 it's pointed out that the feature exists, at least in Writer. If your use case is to jump from one position in the document to another where position means header, page number, objects, or bookmarks for just text, you can use the Navigator. All together it's a WFM (apart from the missing interest over years).
I stumbled upon this issue while trying to migrate to LibreOffice and would like to restate the problem: the request primarily concerns a Back button that would send you back to the previous position after clicking on a hyperlink (=position of the previously clicked hyperlink) with one click. There is no other way to achieve this: for example the Navigator would offer you a long list of names, images etc in the entire document, but no way to easily find and directly select the last element you had your cursor on before the clicking the last hyperlink (if there happens to be any at all). Since Writer already has such a feature, it should be relatively easy to implement in Calc as well. Since Calc also has hyperlinks like Writer, why have Back/Forward buttons only in Writer and not also in Calc? A couple of additions for the sake of better clarity: 1. This is not about springing among different files. A Calc hyperlink can also be used to open another file (Calc or other), but the button I am referring to would just get you back to the last hyperlink in the same Calc file 2. Actually the only important button is the Back button. Instead ot the forward button, you can just click on the hyperlink again to move forward again. 3. This does no need to get you back to the last modified position of the Calc document (as mentioned in some other post above, which would be more complicated to implement) -> the requested behaviour is just to get back to the last hyperlink that was clicked. This should be much easier to realize.
Writer navigation is already addressed via the Navigate TB, and the Recency mode of the Navigator SB Deck. The Recency feature has not been implemented for navigation in the Calc module. The request here was resolved by work on bug 115817, though applicable only to Writer. Please open a new BZ enhancement issue for Calc. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 115817 ***
(In reply to V Stuart Foote from comment #14) > Writer navigation is already addressed via the Navigate TB, and the Recency > mode of the Navigator SB Deck. > > The Recency feature has not been implemented for navigation in the Calc > module. > > The request here was resolved by work on bug 115817, though applicable only > to Writer. > > Please open a new BZ enhancement issue for Calc. > > *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 115817 *** opened an enhancement request for Calc as bug 160505
OK, thank you very much for opening the new request A few minutes ago I had opened https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160504 upon you last post, -> I provide the link here so that you can decide how to best handle this