Re: [libreoffice-users] Text input fields

Hi Steve,

Steve Edmonds schrieb am 22.04.2018 um 22:45:
> Hi.
> I have been given a document to edit.
> (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1nIlAPA4b7NyWw55glHZ6mn97dnZPtydr)
> This has grey regions (fields) to indicate where the user should enter
> data (not the check boxes) that don't show when printed.
>
> I am wanting to insert more of these but can't seem to locate the item
> within LO and would appreciate a hit as to the location in the menus.
> I suppose, while I am asking, which menu has the check boxes.
> TIA, steve

The document was converted from a Word document. In the file itself you 
find a lot of elements <field:fieldmark> and <field:fielmark-start>. 
Those are generated by the conversion. They do not exist in strict ODF 
but are only possible in "extended ODF". There exists no UI to generate 
such fields.

Such field can be content of a bookmark in Word, so that the value can 
be referenced later. The import of those fields do not work, see 
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107274.
The "Date" field top left seems to be of that kind, because I see a 
bookmark "text21" in the navigator, which is connected to that field.

In LibreOffice you can use input fields or -for onetime use- 
placeholder. They are in Input > Fields > More fields..., tab Functions. 
But the handling for the user is not as easy as in Word, especially 
traversing by tab is missing. The advantage is, that the width adapts to 
the content and the style adapts to the surrounding style. For a 
checkbox you might copy one from the existing document.

Or you use a form as Robert has suggested. You need not have a database 
to use form controls.

Kind regards
Regina









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