Hi, Michael Stahl wrote:
> On 24/09/2008 15:18, François Cabelguen wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have just testing OpenOffice 3.0 RC2, have just opened a document .doc. >> I note that we cannot modify the contents of the personalized fields of >> the document, even if this one is recorded in .odt. >> This one shows only 4 personalized fields which can be modified but in >> this example there is much more. Is it a normal limitation of application ? > > hello François, > > we can actually have an arbitrary number of user-defined fields. > for ooo 3.0, i have re-implemented the underlying service that stores > everything you see in the properties dialog. > the user-defined fields tab of this dialog has (in all versions of ooo) > only supported the display of 4 fields. > peter has also re-implemented this user-defined fields tab. > unfortunately, this work missed the user interface freeze, and was thus > delayed to release 3.1. > so, the dialog currently displays only 4 fields; the rest of the fields > are loaded and stored and accessible via an API > (css.document.DocumentProperties), but not editable in the UI until 3.1. In addition to what Michael wrote: if you want to have a look on what will be available in 3.1 you can download a development build as soon as new builds for the dev300 code line will be available at download.openoffice.org. A specification document for the feature can be found at http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/fileIO/Custom_Document_Properties.odt Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
