[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 116827] New: [FILEOPEN, Request] Support for Opening The Same Document Twice and Command Line Switch

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116827

            Bug ID: 116827
           Summary: [FILEOPEN, Request] Support for Opening The Same
                    Document Twice and Command Line Switch
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.0.2.1 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: Windows (All)
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: LibreOffice
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: provost.nikolai at gmail.com

Description:
There's currently no way to view the same document twice. One can open a new
window and try and open the same document again, but it will just bring focus
to the currently open document.

Additionally, Microsoft Office Word has command line switches to do this (/n
and /m) and it's something I would be extremely happy with if included with
LibreOffice.

Even if the second document was a read only copy of the first it would help.
With big displays, I often have the same document presented in multiple spaces.

The command line switch --view will only open one window per document so that
won't work.

Thanks for looking.

Best,

Nick

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a document in a libreoffice component
2.Open another instance of that libreoffice component
3.Try to open the same document

or...

1. Use the command line
2. Navigate to libreoffice program directory
3. In CMD, soffice.bin "FilePath" --view
4. Try the same thing again.
5. Focus brought to currently open document

Actual Results:  
In both cases, focus brought to currently open document.


Expected Results:
A new window would appear with the same document loaded. Either read only or
normal depending on what is possible for you to program.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: Yes



Additional Info:
A new window would appear with the same document loaded. Either read only or
normal depending on what is possible for you to program.



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(KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.181 Safari/537.36

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