https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=142446

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Well, first we need to make sure we all have the same understanding of what the
function is supposed to do. So let’s check.

First:

I think we agree about what the existing UNO function is supposed to do (“Show
/ Hide content below”). So that only leaves. . .  


Second:

“▪ Hide all content below level [X].”

This is my understanding of what we want to have happen:

        1. As shown in the demo, the user clicks the context-menu option now
labeled “"Fold All Content Of Outline Level.”

       2. Again as in the demo, a dialogue appears, offering the user the
chance to specify any level, 0-10. 

       3. The user specifies a level – let’s say “3.”

       4. Throughout the entire document, all the subheads for levels 3 and
above (1, 2, and 3) will be visible. And – again, throughout-- the subheads for
levels 4 and below (5, 6, 7. . .) will be hidden. 

Now, thinking further: 

We need to decide what will happen with content that doesn’t *have* a level.
Beneath a subhead we might have some text, a chart, or what have you. And this,
from what I understand, is all “no-level content.”

Before, I was thinking that when we show a subhead we should show the content
beneath it. But on further thought I think a better behavior would be to hide
all such content in the document and just show the subheads, to the level
specified.

So when I specify a level—1, 2, 3, or whatever—all content other than subheads,
throughout the document, is hidden. Then all I see is an outline of subheads,
at whatever depth I specify. (And wherever I want to see underlying content, I
can show it, using the already-existing UNO command.)

This approach would give a clean outline to look at. It’s simple and intuitive.
And it’s what users migrating to LO from elsewhere may already be used to.

So that seems the best approach me. How does it seem to you?

Also, the folks at Redmond (bless their profit-seeking hearts) have assigned to
the command an eminently simple label: “Show Level” (followed by a choice box).
Brilliant

PS: Jim Raykowski wrote:

>'...to level' gives me the impression all outline content currently folded 
>should be made visible/unfolded before the new fold to level is applied. 

As mentioned above, I suggest we hide *all* content – everything apart from
subheads.

and

>As the patch stands now, the level specified does not affect outline content 
>currently folded. 

Understood. Again, I suggest that all non-subhead content be folded.

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