Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 4854
Stylist filter is not kept between usages of OpenOffice or document.
Last modified: 2007-07-23 11:57:06 UTC
If you setup the stylist filter to something other than "Automatic" (I usually use "Applied Styles") when you reopen OpenOffice the filter is reset to "Automatic". I'm not sure whether this should be a document-based setting or application-wide (I'd prefer the former since style stuff is highly document-dependent). Shouldn't this be kept? Just as the window remembers its position and size it should remember its filter. Paulo
Joost->Falco: reassigned as RFE to you...
just an cc
I agree. The Stylist should remember its last selection.
Started
Sorry, no chance, as the stylist is no reworked for Q.
This looks like a duplicate of issue 18477.
This is a duplicate of issue #18477, of, more correctly, issue #18477 is a duplicate of this one :) Close as DUP one of them :)
Yes, but since issue 18477 has more votes and a higher priority and other duplicates are reported there already, I think issue 4854 should be closed regardless of its being the older issue ;-) I don´t know whether this conforms with OOo´s policy for handling duplicates, though... I guess it´s not too important which one is closed :-)
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Stylist is a significant point of difference to the opposition. It should work in a way that should be reasonably expected. A reasonable expectation by the user would be for the menu to remember which filter was selected when the document was last saved. Given it's age would it be possible to shift the target on this issue to OOo 2.1
Considering the votes and duplicates this issue has it seems ripe for current attention.
I've been using OOo for almost 4 years, and in that whole time, I don't believe that ANYTHING in the "Automatic" list has EVER been what I wanted to use. I'd give this more votes if'n I could. TessTah
I agree that the “per session†persistence of the filter setting of the “Styles and Formatting†window is something that would be useful, in the meantime this is what I discovered about its behavior, may be it could help a little. If not please forgive me for making noise. I should confess I find the use of the Automatic filter feature on the Styles and Formatting window easy, as soon as you have figured out how to bend it to your needs. The behavior I'm going to describe is actual in 2.0.3, I don't know for the old version to which this issue refers to. There is a relationship between the filter and the styles it displays, though I have not found any documentation explaining it clearly. According to the On Line Guide, Automatic is: quote Automatic Displays styles appropriate to the current context. unquote What I didn't find explained anywhere is the meaning of context, when related to styles. Using writer, I found that context means where your insertion cursor is (e.g. where you are typing), what tells that a style belongs to a context is the “Category†drop down list on the “Organizer†tab of the style properties dialog window (in Stylist right click and select Modify... to open it). For example a text in the category “Text Styles†will show up in the Automatic filter whenever the cursor is inside a text. Whereas the styles belonging to the category “Special Styles†are displayed in the Automatic filter when the cursor is, for example, in a page header. The documentation (as in the “On Line Guideâ€) is not clear on this respect where it says that a user created style should belong to the “Custom Style†category, instead it should belong to a category fit for the automatic filter to show it when in the right context. If you want to discover what style category is displayed automatically when you are in a certain part of your document, simply put the cursor there and have a look at the category of one the styles displayed on the “Styles and Formatting†window. Then set your style to the same category if you want it showed up in that same context. This is a style preparation that should take place when you first prepare the template for your document. Hope this can help a little while waiting for implementation.
forgot cc to myself
changed component to "Framework" as that's the place where the implementation would happen
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MBA, thanks for the update of the component; as such, does this Issue also need an update of Owner?... Last comment from BH was 2004...
Yes, I'll take it for the moment.
@mba: Thank you for taking this one. And this one is also an pre-approved one (Keyword rfe_eval_ok).
Peter, please evaluate if this can be done in 2.3. I think an application specific setting makes the most sense as Writer, Calc and Impress have quite different ways of working with styles.
pb: I will have a look.
pb: in progress...
pb: fixed in cws fwkdbdesign01. Files changed: /framework/sfx2/source/inc/templdgi.hxx 1.15.138.1 /sfx2/source/dialog/templdlg.cxx 1.53.138.1
pb -> mru: please verify, thx.
Verified fix in CWS fwkdbdesign01.
Checked fix in 680m214.
How does it work ? I tried the SRC680_m221 and I see no differences. I worked with the hierachic filter, but each times I opened a new document or launch the writer, the filter was again "automatic"... (Windows SP2)
It works, but not with the hierarchical filter. (Windows SP2)
Unfortunately that's right... could you please file a new issue for this special case? Thanks a lot!
The issue for this special case: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=79901