At my company, we are investigating whether we can migrate our file management and office software away from Microsoft and Collabora Office is one option of a potential service provider. To test it, I have started to use Collabora Office instead of Office 365 in my daily work. Most of the time it works well enough, but on multiple occasions I was looking for a feature in the documentation, found it but was unable to locate the feature in the menu.
A recent example is making a bibliography. I am running version 25.04.9.0 and found the following documentation page: Literatuurlijstdatabase
According to this page, I shoud be able to find a menu item related to a bibliography under ‘Extra‘, but I get the following options (in Dutch):
What is going on here?
hi @plofknaapje
Oh there is bit confusion here…
This confusion usually happens because the documentation you found refers to a feature that exists in LibreOffice Writer but is currently not available in Collabora Office builds.
The page you found (Literatuurlijstdatabase) is from the LibreOffice Help documentation. Collabora Office is based on LibreOffice, but not all features are exposed in the Collabora UI.
In particular, the Bibliography Database (Bibliografiedatabase) feature that normally appears under:
Extra (Tools) → Bibliografiedatabase
is not included or not exposed in Collabora Office Desktop builds at the moment.
Thanks for your reply. Is there any way for me to tell that this is the case by looking at the documentation page?
there is no specific guide which will help you too say that this is included and this is not but yes we have sdk doc that you can explore Making sure you're not a bot!
