Bug 81860 - Other: Wrong link to help for Internet hyperlink
Summary: Other: Wrong link to help for Internet hyperlink
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
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4.2.5.2 release
Hardware: Other Windows (All)
: medium normal
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Reported: 2014-07-29 04:45 UTC by Bugcruncher
Modified: 2016-05-31 13:56 UTC (History)
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Description Bugcruncher 2014-07-29 04:45:32 UTC 
Problem description: 
An empty page will be shown in WWW Browser instead of useful help
Steps to reproduce:
1. Open empty new Writer (does not matter) document
2. Type a short nonsense string
3. double click string
4. Click Hyperlink Dialog Icon in Standard Toolbar
   » Hyperlink Dialog will appear
5. In left vertical icons pane select "Internet"
6. Click "Web" radio button
7. Click "WWW Browser" Icon right from URL input line
   » Browser will be launched

Current behavior: At URL "http:///" an error message "Invalid URL" will be shown

Expected behavior: Document 
file:///<LibreOfficeProgramFolder>/share/template/en-US/internal/url_transfer.htm
should be opened with some hints "Transferring Web Addresses"
as it does in AOO

Operating System: Windows 7
Version: 4.2.5.2 release
Comment 1 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2014-08-17 04:14:30 UTC 
TESTING on LO 4.3.1.1 + Ubuntu 12.04

(In reply to comment #0)
> Problem description: 
> An empty page will be shown in WWW Browser instead of useful help
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. Open empty new Writer (does not matter) document
> 2. Type a short nonsense string
> 3. double click string
> 4. Click Hyperlink Dialog Icon in Standard Toolbar
>    » Hyperlink Dialog will appear
> 5. In left vertical icons pane select "Internet"
> 6. Click "Web" radio button
> 7. Click "WWW Browser" Icon right from URL input line
>    » Browser will be launched
> 
> Current behavior: At URL "http:///" an error message "Invalid URL" will be
> shown

CONFIRMED. That's a bug: We should be using a different default url when we launch the browser.

> Expected behavior: Document 
> file:///<LibreOfficeProgramFolder>/share/template/en-US/internal/
> url_transfer.htm
> should be opened with some hints "Transferring Web Addresses"
> as it does in AOO

I'm not sure I'd expect the button to open a local webpage. The tooltip I get for the browser button is "Open web browser, copy an [sic] URL, and paste it to the Target field".

What's in the file 'url_transfer.htm'? It doesn't appear to be present anywhere in the LibreOffice install.

Status -> NEW as there's at least one bug here. (plus the typo)
Comment 2 V Stuart Foote 2014-11-17 03:12:47 UTC 
clearly not a MAB, looks to have been set in error when 81806 was added.
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2015-12-20 16:09:11 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2016-05-31 13:56:01 UTC 
We’ve removed this button in 5.2 (see bug 98885) as it isn’t really helpful — it’s an overcomplication of the simple process of copying and pasting.