https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132475
--- Comment #18 from Justin L <[email protected]> --- The big problem here is that in theory, MS Word can show something completely different in the field than what is contained in the variable (if the user modified it by hand, or if the document was printed/saved again). In MS Word, fields are generally only updated manually via F9, but in LO it always reflects the underlying variable immediately. So, if we "fix" the loss of the field, we will "break" having consistent text between the two. (Hmmm, it seems that for SAVEDATE, MS Word does update the field at FILEOPEN, and Print is updated at print time [even though save is not updated at save time].) So this means that ChangeDate should be able to be locked/FIELDFLD since it always updates on FILEOPEN. (Of course, that means that LO users can't manually update while the document is open, but that seems to be a trivial concern in comparison.) PrintDate is a bit more challenging because it could be hand-modified to something else (which will stick around until it is printed again), but that seems like a bit of a stretch, and so this could relatively safely be imported as a non-locked field. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
