[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 116423] New: The ability to create a "more" button

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116423

            Bug ID: 116423
           Summary: The ability to create a "more" button
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: Thomas at spam4.me

Description:
I have wanted this feature in my word processor for many, many years.  Probably
since the 80's!  I work with what there is, yet having this would be very nice.

I'd like the ability to insert a "more" button.  When you click the button a
text box opens where "more" text can be put in, and an "x" in the upper right
to close the text box (and "save" the changes within the document).

The "hidden" features of LibreOffice give some of this functionality, but its
not very good, hard to use and not intuitive - requiring a lot of work-arounds
and thinking.

Let me give you a perfect example of where this is useful.  Lists.  People have
all kinds of lists of everything, all the time.  To-do lists, friends lists,
inventory, grocery, insurance items, etc, etc.  And often there is description
or "more information" associated with each item in the list.  So what happens
is that you have to page through page after page of unimportant stuff to get to
the item you want.  What would be much better is to have the list, with "more"
buttons.  Here, let me show you:

Thomas [more]
Mary [more]
Scott [more]
Jane [more]

I can scroll down the list easily, or do a search and find the person I am
looking for, then click the [more] button by their name and pull up all the
rest, like an email link, phone number, address, personal information, notes,
etc.

Having a “more” button would be perfect for documents that several people are
working on.  When we send out the document, others can easily get in touch with
us by clicking the [more] button without clogging up the document.

Home inventory for insurance purposes - another great example.  A list of
everything, then the "more" button can have text, serial number, purchase price
and date and maybe even a picture.  Since home inventory changes all the time,
having the "more" button makes that easier.

List of websites you use - another great example.  A list of websites.  Click
the "more" button to put in your login information and notes about the site.

I could go on and on.  Like I said, I've long wanted this feature.

When you pop up the text box, allow the user to resize it as desired and keep
the size info with the saved text box information.  For printing, there is
probably no need to including the information behind the “more” buttons.

I am a computer scientist and an HTML coder.  I've created HTML that has this
feature, yet it is time consuming to maintain and has little external files all
over the place.  It would be much better to keep it within one document.  I
would volunteer to code this feature for you, into your application, yet I've
never done any work on public supported software before and this would best be
done by someone that knows what they're doing.

One of the work-arounds I use is to put the list at the top of the document and
link it to text down below, but that's pretty messy.  Also, it is useless for
most applications.  For example, if one were creating a nature paper, a little
"more" button by the different kinds of animals while you're writing would be
awesome.  It is entirely intuitive that way.....

The flying squirrel [more] is found all over north America, yet is most
common...

See what I mean?

Actual Results:  
This is an enhancement request.

Expected Results:
This is an enhancement request.


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/56.0

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