https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169431
Bug ID: 169431
Summary: writer documents template path points to la-la land
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 24.2.7.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)
OS: Linux (All)
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
Document of 90+ files created over ten years ago, brought along through
numerous updates to Linux and Office (through it's various guises). A style
changed somewhere along the way, edited the template and nothing happened.
Properties say "Template: theManual". Looking at the .fodt file says
"../../../Documents%20and%20Settings/Craig%20D/Application%20Data/OpenOffice.org2/user/template/theManual.ott",
something that doesn't exist. The files have moved over the years so I don't
even know where that path is relative to. The template now exists in a path
Office knows about (I can edit it). Am I screwed?
I looked at the Template Changer extension but it leaves files as .fodt, not
.odt and I'm not comfortable with it.
This is truly annoying as templates are such a basic part of a document.
That Properties doesn't show the full path to the template is ambiguous (yes, I
do have multiple templates of the same name) and that it doesn't indicate it
couldn't load said template seems lazy.
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Copy an (really) old, but current, writer document to a new version of
writer.
2.
3.
Actual Results:
Editing what seems to be the template does nothing because that isn't the
template. Properties gives no hint of the actual template or if it failed to
load said template.
Expected Results:
An indication of an unexpected result and the opportunity to fix it.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
Properties should show the full path (as in the fodt file), indicate successful
loading of template and on failure a button to adjust that path. Actually, I
want to always be able to change the template, it is called editing and writer
is an editor. Yes, 90 files to change but at least I'd know what to change, as
a neophyte writer user (who has read an old version of the manual), it was
truly painful figure out what was broken.
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