[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 137741] Fields objects should be navigable in Navigator and the Find bar

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137741

--- Comment #8 from V Stuart Foote <vstuart.foote at utsa.edu> ---
(In reply to sdc.blanco from comment #7)
> (In reply to Jim Raykowski from comment #6)
> > not sure where to go with this.
> Some random thoughts:
>  
>  - often fields are in Headers/Footers.  
>    Would be good to have a way to easily identify them.
> 
> Fields
>   Header
>     Pagenumber
>     DocInformation:Modified
>   Footer
>     Date (fixed)
>     etc.
>   Page 7 
>     Number range Text
>   Page 9
>     Number range Figure
>  
> 
> ("page numbers" is a luxury, given that Frames, Objects, Images do not come
> that way. The liberty of random thoughts.  But likely to make it easier to
> guess what the field is doing and/or where they are appearing.)
> 
>  - would it be possible to give "names" to the fields (comparable to naming
> Frames, Objects, Images)?  (but I suspect that except for user-defined
> variables, there is not an existing facility for this.)
> 
>  - would the context menu in Navigator also have an "Edit" option?
> 
> (at the end of the day, even just having a flat list of variables, as shown
> in the screenshot,  with navigate to by double-click, would be a useful
> improvement.)

+1 to round it out, otherwise just the flat list to indicate Field type would
suffice. Great job so far Jim!

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