Re: [libreoffice-users] Referencing slides from external impress presentation (Menu Insert -> File, selecting link), no visual clue?

Hi :)
I think it would be great to add a feature request for that.  

People in my office are very unclear about the current arrangement and never know whether they 
should or whether they MUST NOT allow those sorts of links to update when they open a file.  

Having any sort of information about what the external links are would help a lot.  Even just 
something that tells which file-name is being used would help but it would be great if it could go 
further.
Regards from
Tom :)  


--- On Fri, 29/6/12, Sean Carlos <sean.carlos@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Sean Carlos <sean.carlos@gmail.com>
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Referencing slides from external impress presentation (Menu Insert -> 
File, selecting link), no visual clue?
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Friday, 29 June, 2012, 7:58

I have several slides which I include in multiple presentations, such
as a contact details slide.

Impress offers a way to include a slide from a separate odp
presentation, using the menu option Insert -> File.  Choosing the
"Link" option during the slide importation allows you to update the
included slide should the original slide have undergone changes.  Very
nice.

There appears to be a problem with the implementation, however.  There
doesn't seem to be any way to visually know that a slide depends on
(is linked to) an external "master" slide.  So a user could / will
unknowing make changes to a slide and then proceed to overwrite these
changes the next time they open the impress slide set accepting the
"update linked slides" prompt.  Not good for data integrity.

I searched the bug tracker using the keywords "impress import file
link" but didn't find any reference to this issue. I'd like to log an
enhancement request to ask for a visual clue that a slide is linked to
an external slide (I suspect that implementation cannot be too
difficult) but I thought I'd check with other users before I do so.
Feedback welcome!

- Sean

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