https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155263
Bug ID: 155263
Summary: Need a increasing-by-appearance sequence field with an
initial value property
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.4.5.1 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
A user should be able to insert a field with the following features:
* The first displayed value can be chose arbitrarily by the user when defining
the field
* Additional copies of the field (i.e. which you would get by copy-pasting)
cover consecutive elements of the sequence
You can't quite get that right now.
* There is "Number Range" - where you can either have it auto-increment, or set
the initial value, but for both to happen you need different field properties -
and initial setter followed by non-setters.
* There is "Set Variable", which you could make auto-increment, i.e. my_var =
my_var + 1 - but this has basically the same problem; if you want an initial
value other than 1, you need to different fields.
Starting numbering in values other than 1 (or the first element of the
sequence) is obviously necessary. we already offer that feature when numbering
paragraphs. It should also be available directly and conveniently for fields.
As for _how_ to offer this feature - that's more of a bike-shed question. My
personal suggestion would be offering a range-start property (as opposed to the
value property) for Number Ranges; and perhaps even support this indirectly
elsewhere.
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