Problem description: Writer doesn't honor changes of bibliography database entries when updating a bibliography. It seems that Writers saves the biblography entries in the local document even if "from bibliography database" is selected when inserting a bibliography entry. The strange thing is that if you insert a reference to the same entry of the biblio DB after changing it, LO Writer offers to insert the Bibliography Entry _based_ _on_ _document_ _content_. Obviously, Writer saves the biblio entry in the local document instead of referencing the biblio db. Steps to reproduce: Method 1: --------- 1. Create a new writer document; 2. Insert a new bibliography entry using menu "Insert" -> "Indexes and Tables" -> "Bibliography Entry"; make sure that "From Bibliography database" is selected. 3. Insert a new Bibliography using menu "Insert" -> "Indexes and Tables" -> "Indexes and Tables...", Type "Bibliography". Writer should insert a Bibliography with one entry. 4. Edit the bibliography database: either using Menu "Tools" -> "Bibliography Database", or by hitting F4: make sure to edit the bibliography entry you've inserted in step 2; 5. Update all fiels using Menu "Tools" -> "Update" -> "Update all". or Method 2: --------- 1. Create a new writer document; 2. Insert a new bibliography entry using menu "Insert" -> "Indexes and Tables" -> "Bibliography Entry"; make sure that "From Bibliography database" is selected. 3. Edit the bibliography database: either using Menu "Tools" -> "Bibliography Database", or by hitting F4: make sure to edit the bibliography entry you've inserted in step 2; 4. Insert a new Bibliography using menu "Insert" -> "Indexes and Tables" -> "Indexes and Tables...", Type "Bibliography". Writer should insert a Bibliography with one entry. Current behavior: - Method 1: The Bibliography isn't updated using the most current data from the Bibliography DB. - Method 2: The inserted Bibliography uses the initial bibliographic data of the biblio entry instead of the current data. Expected behavior: - Method 1: The Bibliography should get updated, reflecting the changes in the biblio DB. - Method 2: The inserted bibliography should use the current data from the biblio db. Platform (if different from the browser): Win 7 Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0.5) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0.5
Tested with Win 7 64bit with LO 3.5.5.3 and Ubuntu 12.04 with LO 3.5.4.2 - same behaviour there.
This is an old bug (2005), see: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=44189 There is a java application that address the issue: http://www.dusystems.com/oobf.html I haven't tried it. Hopefully ;) the issue will be addressed in LibreOffice. The bibliography feature is nice once you get the hang of it.
This bug affects me with 3.5.6, 3.6.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 and 3.6.2 on MAC IOS. Tryed the Java application without success. I was planning to write my monography on Writer but then i have to switch to Word because of this bug. How can a bug so antique perdure that way?
This bug affects me too. Currently LibreOffice 3.5.4.2 from Debian. The workaround that I use after I have made a change in the bibliography database is to delete the reference in the text (the short title) and then re-insert it. E.g. delete the "Heron, J (2001)" field from "John Heron called this Emotional Competence (Heron, J. (2001) pp12-16)." and then re-insert it (including doing the workaround for https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=61426)
Confirmed as still a bug in 4.1.3.2 release.
Marking as duplicate of bug 60232 to merge issues. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 60232 ***