https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126641
orcmid <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- OS|Mac OS X 10.11 |All CC| |[email protected] Hardware|Mac |All Latest|--- |4.1.2 Confirmation in| | Issue Type|DEFECT |ENHANCEMENT --- Comment #2 from orcmid <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Matt from comment #0) > Created attachment 85125 [details] > Screenshot of settings/prompt > > When opening a document with links to other docs, prompt appears: "This file > contains links to other files. Should they be updated?". > > Under preferences, openoffice, calc, general, updating: "Update links when > opening" is set to "Always". > > Therefore, I should not be prompted to open the links. This started > happening after upgrading from 4.1.1 to 4.1.2 This change is by design. The change is part of the remedy for security issue CVE-2015-4551, with advisory at https://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2015-4551.html. To expedite that solution, the "Always" configuration option has been disabled. It *may* be that a less heavy-handed approach (rather than requiring that users always confirm link-updating in Writer and Calc) is possible. That will require more analysis. The possible outcomes are (1) the "Always" options are simply removed, (2) some kinds of links to outside-the-document resources will always prompt, (3) some kinds of links to outside-the-document will not be allowed (similar to Excel and Word behavior), or (4) some combination/alternative not yet considered. For now, this is by-design, and this clearly does raise an issue for some practices involving linked resources. I am confirming this for all platforms and changing it to an Enhancement matter with regard to improved usability while guarding against the CVE-2015-4551 exploit. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the issue.
