autorecovery: recover forms/reports hidden, and show them when the main window is shown

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/offapi/com/sun/star/sdb/DocumentDefinition.idl b/offapi/com/sun/star/sdb/DocumentDefinition.idl
index 2fc44f444f22..8ce0b9be262a 100644
--- a/offapi/com/sun/star/sdb/DocumentDefinition.idl
+++ b/offapi/com/sun/star/sdb/DocumentDefinition.idl
@@ -74,6 +74,12 @@ service DocumentDefinition
                 the sub document could be closed. Reasons for not closing the document include vetos by
                 third parties, for instance, because the user opened a dialog modal to the sub document,
                 or a long-running task such as printing is currently running.</li>
+            <li><strong>show</strong>: shows the sub document. This is useful if you previously opened the
+                document hidden, or if you previously hide it using the <em>hide</em> command.<br/>
+                The <em>open</em> command is not available if the sub document has not been loaded, yet.</li>
+            <li><strong>hide</strong>: hides the sub document. In opposite to the <em>close</em> command,
+                only the document window is hidden, but the document is kept loaded. A subsequent execution
+                of the <em>show</em> command will show the window, again.</li>
         </ul>
     */
     service DefinitionContent;