[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 129682] New: WRITER -- "dissolve" (melt in) linked text file, embed it in the document for good

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129682

            Bug ID: 129682
           Summary: WRITER -- "dissolve" (melt in) linked text file, embed
                    it in the document for good
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Writer
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: jepe at cspv.hu

Description:
linking a text file into a document is a very good function, 
however, after some time, when the text is finished, 
it would be good to just have the final text without the linked "sub-doc" files
:)
so, it could be great if we could clear the link, cut the document off the
linked text, keeping the last version of it...

imagine a text with 5-8 linked text documents...
in different folders, each, 
and imagine that the text is finalized...

in that moment, or even beforehand, it would be great to 
dissolve the linked texts into the document as if they were original parts,
sections of it...

ANOTHER
great function could be, if a chapter under a "heading 2" style heading
could be converted into a linked document, like, "export this section into an
external file, and link it"...

then, for some time, one could be working on that section...
and after that, it could be dissolved back into the document, like nothing had
happened in terms of linking external files.. :) 




Steps to Reproduce:
1. you have a document linked into the document you're working on
2. you refresh it (Menu / tools / update links)
3. then you "dislink it" ("unlink" usually mans delete, that's why I didn't use
that) .. aka "dissolve it", make it organic part of the document

Actual Results:
we can do this manually, by copying the text, then deleting the linked section
from the document, and pasting the text in its place...

Expected Results:
it would be great if we could do this by one click :)


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
why would this be good?

because you could work on a part (chapter) of a text...
without engaging with a linking method for ever, which you an, of course,
"dissolve" manually, by copying the text, then deleting the linked section from
the document, and pasting the text in its place...

I'm sure that writers oftentimes wish they could focus on just one part of a
document... so that when they hit CRTL+S, it wouldn't save a huge text, but
only what's being edited... that chapter, that section..
it is not only faster, but also feels cleaner :) 


PS:
a further enhancement could be if the linked document could be "saved as" a new
version with keeping (updating) the link to the document...
like:

under "save as":
save as (& update the link)

the "link update" could be set @ the section edit dialogue box... perhaps :)

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