Automated return reference?

[DynV]

In OO Writer, is there an automated way to have a return reference, which later you make a reference to an earlier section, and you automatically get a reference back to that reference location? Below is an example.

Thank you kindly
= main =
…
== section B ==
… some sentence [always shown ‘1’, hovering show “annex section 3”, links to immediately before or after the reference to here at “another sentence”] …
== section C ==
…
= annex =
…
== section 3 ==
… another sentence [always shown “section B”, hovering does nothing, links to “some sentence”] …
== section 4 ==
…

[Hrbrgr]

@DynV

and you automatically get a reference back to that reference location?

What is “automatically”?
You have to specify it.

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Use the Insert > Field menu (Ctrl+F2).
You can use “cross-references” and “variables” for that there.

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[DynV]

In the example, in the order of the document the 1st reference would be the one automatically made after the 2nd one is made; that is no reference, you place the cursor at the 2nd reference position (another sentence) then refer the previous part (some sentence) then both references are made at a speed humans would call instant (I imagine a fraction of a second later the back reference is made). So a single reference is made by the user, the reference back is not made by the user. Like this:

PS: Often the reference back is only a number, which hovering will indicate what’s the reference is pointing to, so for the sample it would be

some sentence [always shown ‘1’, hovering show “annex section 3”]

[ajlittoz]

There is no automatic “back reference” in Writer. You must manually create it.

Two features compete here: cross-references and hyperlinks.

Cross-references are created with Insert → Cross-references, Set Reference and will allow to insert properties (page, chapter, text) of this location anywhere in your document. It is purely “visual” or informative.

Hyperlinks allow to jump to a bookmarked location with a Ctrl-click. You must create first a bookmark.

Navigation can also be performed with the Navigator by selecting any “object”: heading, image, frame, bookmark, field, …

But, as already mentioned, once you have jumped to some destination, there no automatic return to the previous location if you have not installed some backlink.

[DynV]

So there’s not even something you could insert like {x} … text … {y|link to x} then you’d trigger something and all the links would be created, including return links?

[ajlittoz]

No. I suppose you mean return link from x to y. The problem here is you are in a one-to-many situation (many y’s point to x). In this case, how would Writer choose which link to implement? Which y should it point to from x? It could of course insert all links to the y’s but this would make a very messy configuration around x for the user.

I don’t think there is a “navigation history stack” (where you would just pop the top item to return to your previous position).

[DynV]

The script or whatever would just increment the return reference, continuing my example

some sentence [always shown ‘1’, hovering show “annex section 3”, link to that] [always shown ‘2’, hovering show another place say “annex section 5”, link to that] [always shown ‘3’, hovering show another place say “annex 2 section 1”, link to that]