[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 89178] Mail merge does not change the merge fields in files (when saved as individual documents) to plain text

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89178

--- Comment #20 from Jan-Marek Glogowski <glogow at fbihome.de> ---
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #19)
> (In reply to Jan-Marek Glogowski from comment #17)
> 
> I suppose that having an export option that would allow to convert fields to
> their text *on saving*, in filter, would allow to get the desired result
> without sacrificing the speed. A filter option that would convert *some*
> (visible) fields, keeping bookmarks and the like?

Then you would have to implement this feature in all filters, instead of the
internal document model. I guess your suggestion would work, but it's a lot of
work.

Eventually implementing an undo for "fields => text" would be better. That
would be nice to have generally.

An other idea would be a "node only" internal document copy for mail merge,
which shares all the meta data, like defaults, styles etc. Currently the
SwDoc::CreateCopy creates an individual document with new styles, which has to
update all references in the nodes and also re-validates all the document data.
It's currently more or less the same then a "copy and paste" between documents.

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