Issue 60255 - Provide a tool to find all unresolvable links in the document
Summary: Provide a tool to find all unresolvable links in the document
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2006-01-09 11:56 UTC by raindrops
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:37 UTC (History)
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Description raindrops 2006-01-09 11:56:35 UTC 
Title: Provide a tool to find all unresolvable links in the document.

The author inserts several bookmarks in the document and then creates links to them.

However, when a bookmark is deleted, these links become orphan.

Currently we have no tool to find such broken links. Please provide a search
function that lists all broken links. 

A desired feature is as follows:
1. The records in this report should be clickable (when the user clicks on a
record, Writer should jump to that broken link in the document. At this time,
Writer should just change the focus to Writer's main window WITHOUT closing the
dialog; so that the user can easily come back to the LinkFinder window and jump
to the next broken link. This way, he can repair all broken links quickly (or
just remove the links).

2. This window should have a refresh button also: While repairing the broken
links, the user can refresh the list from time to time, so repaired links are
removed from the list, and only broken links are shown.
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2006-01-09 12:43:39 UTC 
Reassigned to requirements.
Comment 2 filipg 2006-03-02 02:28:08 UTC 
extendedPDF macro DOES provide this functionality - I use it all the time.
At the end of generating the PDF file (through GS), it pops up a dialog listing
all orphaned links.

Download it at http://www.3bview.com/pages/epdf-download.php

In somewhat related news, don't even bother with ReferenceManager
(a la http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/hillview/OOo/)
ReferenceManager1.sxw macros will crater OO 2.0.2RC4 (hard dump)
if you try to use the find orphan functionality... I'll open a new
issue for that, though.
Comment 3 raindrops 2006-03-02 13:33:30 UTC 
Thanks for that information.

I have already tried the ExtendedPDF macro (to make the pdf; not to find
orphaned links), but many of the reportedly orphan links seems to be actually OK
(That is, if I make the pdf directly from OOo, and click on the links that are
reported faulty by ExtendedPDF, they work normally.)

So I have a doubt about the orphan link reporting.

Secondly, ExtendedPDF also provides a second list of "links that resolved to the
first of multiple targets" or something. I could not understand that at all.

Thirdly, ExtendedPDF is meant for pdf conversion. Broken link report is just a
byproduct for it. I would like a dedicated macro that does this.
Comment 4 raindrops 2006-03-11 05:25:20 UTC 
Well, that reference manager seems to be nice-- in theory. Can't someoine
examine its code and incorporate it in OOo(sans whatever bugs it has)? Shoudn't
take much time!