Hi Jan,
in content.xml of a document containing placeholders you will find an attribute "text:description" in every placeholder: ....<text:placeholder text:placeholder-type="text" text:description="reference1">.... you can define this description in the dialog while creating the placeholder. I don't know how you can get this information through the API but I would bet it's easy to find if you have already found all placeholders :). Perhaps someone on the list will post a snippet . Cheers Harald
hi harald, i used the synonym "placeholder" in an abstract meaning, unkowing that an with that name exists ;) i know the way to set that property, but i feel much better if the id/reference isn't shown to the user by UI. in your case it's shwon in the tooltip. but that element is an option, if the worst comes to the worst but i would prefer a way to get an internal id (OOo-generated) of an element.
