[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 128041] conditional text in header/footer fields turned static

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=128041

V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Keywords|                            |needsUXEval
           Severity|normal                      |enhancement
                 OS|Linux (All)                 |All
                 CC|                            |libreoffice-ux-advise at lists
                   |                            |.freedesktop.org,
                   |                            |mikekaganski at hotmail.com,
                   |                            |vstuart.foote at utsa.edu
                URL|                            |https://ask.libreoffice.org
                   |                            |/en/question/211993/writer-
                   |                            |headerfooter-variables-and-
                   |                            |conditional-text/

--- Comment #2 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to ajlittoz from comment #0)
> 
> I am presently facing a typographic case where the LAST page of a sequence
> must be formatted differently. This is not the last page of the document
> (which could be detected with the "Next page" field returning a null value).
> Consequently, I added "set variable" fields in the main text flow to toggle
> the state of a flag variable. I use this flag value in a footer to control
> conditional insertion, but it does not work.
> 
> This special formatting can't be replaced by a page break to an ad-hoc page
> style, because there should be no page break in main text flow. It is really
> only a spot location, not a range, which needs to be flagged, something like
> a note, but in the footer area, not in the note area. And also, it must not
> cause conflicts with notes.
> 

So use case seems reasonable--if a bit of a corner case. 

Dynamic Conditional text in header/footer per page responding to fielded data
of that page.

Alternatively multiple header/footer objects per document.

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