https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=115042
Bug ID: 115042
Summary: Enhancement: allow more fields in presentations
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 6.0.0.2 rc
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Impress
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
LibO Writer has an "Insert -> Field" functionality that includes a "More
fields" option which basically lets one include any kind of document property
into a document, including custom properties.
LibO Impress also has an "Insert -> Field" functionality, however this is much
more limited. There are only some basic fields listed corresponding to the most
fundamental document properties and no "More fields" option. This basically
prevents using the document custom properties as fields in presentations.
Conversely, this functionality would be quite useful. Think of slides where
each slide needs to include a revision number. If there is a single master page
the presentation depends on, the number can be put on the master page. However,
if there are multiple master pages, updating the revision number means updating
/all/ of them. Having the revision number in a single place in a custom
variable would help a lot.
In principle being able to refer custom variables in a presentation would also
help flows where documents are stored in vcs such as git. One could easily code
an output filter replacing an output variable with a git id or tag, etc and
have it referred inside the presentation.
Steps to Reproduce:
See description
Actual Results:
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Expected Results:
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Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: en-US
Module: PresentationDocument
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OS: Linux (All)
OS is 64bit: yes
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like
Gecko) Falkon/2.1.99 Chrome/56.0.2924.122 Safari/537.36
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