[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 154808] Writer - protected section - allow to insert content into fields

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154808

--- Comment #9 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
There are several existing methods to protect/allow editing of the (parts of)
text document. They likely don't cover all useful scenarios.

Just listing what I recall from the top of my head:

1. File->Properties->Security - allows to password-protect change tracking
mode, and open in read-only mode by default (same as in menu Edit->Track
Changes).
2. Section: allows lock it; also allows to keep it editable in a read-only
document.
3. Tools->Protect Document: allows to protect fields and/or bookmarks.
4. Table: allows to protect/unprotect selected cells.
5. (Obsolete, doesn't work anymore) Options->Writer->Compatibility, Protect
form (used to protect the whole document).
6. File->Save As->"Save with password" checkbox: allows to set passwords to
open and/or edit document (edit mode password is asked using menu Edit->Edit
Mode).

We could ask others (Regina is likely the expert here) for other existing
features (likely related to respective ODF features). The interested parties
should also check how the wanted scenarios are implemented in other office
suites, to avoid creation of incompatible implementations, when following an
existing model could suffice.

Personally I think that, *if* we don't have a reasonable way to do what OP
wants, it would be a useful thing to implement (taking into account the above).

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