[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 107523] Inconsistent, history-dependent results of referencing missing variables in conditional text

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107523

--- Comment #5 from Eric Christenson <echristenson at hubbell-icd.com> ---
The *delete* key doesn't actually *delete* a variable when it deletes the field
that sets it?????  

Expected: If I set a variable at some point in a field in a document, the value
applies from that point forward in the document, and is not available prior to
that point.  If the field is erased from the document with the delete key (or
any other standard way of removing stuff) then Writer acts as if the variable
had *never* been set at that point. 

5.2.6.2 behavior is a recipe for trouble, not to mention bugs like 84148, which
I just confirmed. 92662 requests exactly this, variables with no position in
the document, but conceptually at the beginning.

The behavior is counter-intuitive--I have to delete something I inserted once
in two places.  I have an extra place I have to audit if I want to know all the
variables in the document.  While I'm at it, what happens if I want to *change*
the value of a variable in the middle of a document?

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And why do I do these things?.... I am producing a *class* of similar documents
and assembling them, if I can, automatically from pieces.  I produce a product
with multiple options, and the conception is to "turn the crank" and export a
document with exactly the options that are present for any given instance of
the product.

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