[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 139236] New: Enhancement suggestion: if a document has a title, the default name for saving should not be "Untitled 1" but based on the title

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139236

            Bug ID: 139236
           Summary: Enhancement suggestion: if a document has a title, the
                    default name for saving should not be "Untitled 1" but
                    based on the title
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.3.6.2 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: LibreOffice
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: Mark.Aitchison at chch.planet.org.nz

Description:
When it comes to saving a document for the first time, and the author has
already entered a title (or heading), a more appropriate name than something
starting with "Untitled" should be suggested, based on the words in the title,
perhaps with options controlled by the user's Load/Save Options and/or the
template used to create the document that might limit the length of the title,
remove spaces or "small" words, etc.

The reasons would be two-fold: to save some typing (recognising the document is
not "untitled"!), and to allow a consistent naming convention for documents to
make them easier to recognise by file name long afterwards.

The ideal would be to have the title (or specified field in a spreadsheet)
and/or date and/or document properties take part in suggesting the file name
and directory for saving to disk, controlled by the user's Options and
potentially set in a template used to create the document.

For example, in a busy office where different people may create, or later
search for, documents: using "standard" file naming systems that make it clear
what file corresponds to a reply of a certain type to a customer made in a
particular month about a certain type of product would be much better than
dealing with ad-hoc document naming strategies of various people which require
searching through many documents. Another example might be somebody writing,
say, poetry that uses a template for that and wants poems to be stored in a
directory tree just for that, which includes the year as a subdirectory name
and the title as the document name. Or a project worked on by several people,
where each persons contributions might be stored in one folder but will have
their user name appended until some editor collates and approves all their work
to make the final document.

In the case of spreadsheets: I very often have to create spreadsheets that need
to have document names following a particular system based on the date (which
will be the same as, although in a different format to, a particular field in
the spreadsheet). As an example from this of what a good templating and
documation system should be able to do: when I create new spreadsheet from this
template (preferably by double-clicking on an icon on my desktop) it should pop
up a request to enter two fields, the first one being a valid date (e.g. "23rd
December 2020" or any valid date that is automagically converted into that
format), that becomes part of the filename (e.g. "Analysis of thingees
2020-12-23.ods", using something like a "sprintf" or "PRINT USING" somehow in
the template), and the date of the Sunday previous to that date should be used
to create the default value for the second prompted question (e.g.
"20/12/2020"), and when okayed, these fields should go into specific fields of
the new spreadsheet, as well as defining the filename for the next "Save".

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a new document
2. start typing text, including something with a paragraph style of "Title" 
3. Save

Actual Results:
notice it defaults to a file name that is rudely said to be untitled when
you've gone to the effort of giving it a title!

Expected Results:
A default filename based on the title


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:
By the way: This bug description form is not very good for entering enhancement
requests, because some fields here seem to be required that make little sense
in the context of an enhancement suggestion.

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