[libreoffice-users] using fields in a text document: input fields

planas <jslozier@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Lee
>
> On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 16:18 +0200, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
>
> > Le 24/06/11 15:13, lee a écrit :
> >
> > Hi Lee,
> >
> >
> > > Now I would like to make it so that I can press a button and be
> > > presented with a form or the like that lets me fill in the variable
> > > data, inserts the data at the appropriate places into the document,
> > > saves the document to a file I specify and exports the document as PDF
> > > with a password for access rights to the PDF file set.

[...]

> Another possibility that works very well when you need a document that
> needs the same type of content is to use an Input Field.
>
> To do so:
>
> INSERT>>FIELDS>>OTHER (or CTRL F2) click on Functions Tab then click on
> Input. Enter the name of the field in the Reference Box. Click Insert
> and Dialog Box opens. Your cursor should be in the large empty box, if
> not, click on the large box. Type the place holder text you want that
> will displayed when SHOW FIELDS is active. Click OK then click Close.
>
> Do this for every location you want insert text. I would save this
> document as a template. 
>
> When you open this template Writer will ask you to enter data for each
> field in the order they were created.

This is nice, only I'm not asked for what to put into the fields when
opening the document. Perhaps that was changed in more recent versions?
I have:

,----
| LibreOffice 3.3.2 
| OOO330m19 (Build:202)
| tag libreoffice-3.3.2.2, Debian package 1:3.3.2-2+b1
`----

When I click on such an input field, a dialogue box pops up allowing me
to enter what I want to put into the field. This is very much like just
deleting the text the input fields are replacing and entering the new
text.

Is there another way to make LO ask for the contents of the input fields
than opening the document?

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