On Thu, Aug 23, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > That said, I appreciate that Alfresco is more convenient to use with > one unchanging file name for each version of LO. I can manually change > filenames upon download if that makes the whole process easier for > everyone.
It's not really a question of keeping one unchanging file name to suit working with Alfresco. The advantage is that one would take advantage of Alfresco's file versioning to: a) avoid having to update download links on http://libreoffice.org and the wiki; b) avoid the need to keep different files containing different versions of the same document. The versioning system stores all the different historical versions of that document, and you can get a download link to each different past version of a file if you want to offer-up documentation for different versions of LibreOffice. You can easily live with one unchanging file name if you store the changeable information (version of LibreOffice covered, etc.) in the doc's meta data rather than incorporating it in the filename. >I find this extremely convenient and simple. While I can go back to > Alfresco and download an older version of a file if I want it (or look > in the metadata to see when and by whom it was changed), in most cases > that is a nuisance compared to having it on my own computer with the > info in the filename. I can understand that. It's a pity that there are no extensions to file managers like Windows Explorer and Nautilus, etc., that allow reading of ODF file meta data without having to load a program to do so. There are various small, quick-loading utilities for reading MS Office file meta data without much hassle, but I'm not aware of any for LibreOffice and its ODF files. I guess you'd need to make a choice here. Is using file meta data for storing version-related information more convenient that using special file naming that is quicker to read but entails a lot of manual renaming and link updating? -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
