Text of internal hyperlink is not updated (writer)

[Pawel1]

I’ve made internal hyperlinks inside writer document (by dragging headings from the Navigator). When I change structure of document (added some chapters) text of hyperlinks are note updated however they still point to correct section.

What I did:

• insert “Heading 1"” “London”
• Navigator(F5)->Headings - drag “London” into document (appears as “London”).
• Change heading “London” to “Loooooondoon”

Hyperlink is still “London”

Is there any way to update text of link (other then by hand made macro)?

[Pawel1]

So maybe there should be “drag as cross reference” in Navigator panel? Dragging from navigator is (in my use case) much more efficient then inserting cross reference?

[oweng]

Thanks for the clarification. I have updated my answer. Please feel free to update the bug with tests for your platform and LO version.

[oweng]

Why would a hyperlink update if the destination text changes? A hyperlink consists of two parts: a) the displayed text; b) the link. Only the link will be updated, because Writer assumes you want the text to display as-is. I would think this is normal. The only way to get a cross-reference to update the displayed text (when the destination text is changed) is if you use the cross-reference facility (Insert > Cross-reference…).

EDIT: Resultant comment is indicative of a drag-n-drop cross-reference ability to be added to the Navigator. This is bug fdo#36310.