Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically
On 31-5-2015 20:08, Luuk wrote: On 27-5-2015 03:22, Thomas wrote: Good morning from Japan Maybe (I do not remember exactly) I did ask the same question years ago. Is there a trick to tell LibreOffice, in particular Calc, to open files automatically? For the last 15 years or so I have been using Lotus 123 to keep track of simple tasks like appointments, patient names etc. But this software is now too old to work any longer (so the computer tells me). Lotus 123 allows to specify a folder and then opens the files therein automatically whenever the software is started. For those administrative tasks, a set of 2-3 files, this is VERY convenient. I would like to convert those 123-files into Calc format and have Calc open them *automatically* whenever I start Calc. Is that possible? If so, how do you do that? Thank you. Thomas There's no need to automate Calc (or LO) simply create a file name it something like 'autostartLibreoffice.bat' (or anything else, as long as the name ends in '.bat' The contents of this file should be the names of the files you want to be opened. so, something like (other locations are OK too ;): C:\Users\Luuk\My Documents\TEST1.ods C:\Users\Luuk\My Documents\TEST1.odt When you doubleclick the 'autostartLibreoffice.bat' file it will open the 'TEST1'-document, and the 'TEST1'-calcsheet. BTW, it should be possible to play the same 'trick' on any other OS, because above example applies to Windows. ;) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically
On 27-5-2015 03:22, Thomas wrote: Good morning from Japan Maybe (I do not remember exactly) I did ask the same question years ago. Is there a trick to tell LibreOffice, in particular Calc, to open files automatically? For the last 15 years or so I have been using Lotus 123 to keep track of simple tasks like appointments, patient names etc. But this software is now too old to work any longer (so the computer tells me). Lotus 123 allows to specify a folder and then opens the files therein automatically whenever the software is started. For those administrative tasks, a set of 2-3 files, this is VERY convenient. I would like to convert those 123-files into Calc format and have Calc open them *automatically* whenever I start Calc. Is that possible? If so, how do you do that? Thank you. Thomas There's no need to automate Calc (or LO) simply create a file name it something like 'autostartLibreoffice.bat' (or anything else, as long as the name ends in '.bat' The contents of this file should be the names of the files you want to be opened. so, something like (other locations are OK too ;): C:\Users\Luuk\My Documents\TEST1.ods C:\Users\Luuk\My Documents\TEST1.odt When you doubleclick the 'autostartLibreoffice.bat' file it will open the 'TEST1'-document, and the 'TEST1'-calcsheet. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically
On 28/05/2015 16:38, James Knott wrote: That was possible in OS/2, but I haven't seen it anywhere else. With OS/2, you could create a Work Area folder and whenever that folder was opened, whatever was in it would also open. Write a utility that creates a Work Area folder, regardless of the platform one uses. An interesting challenge for somebody who is good at PERL or Python coding. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically
On 28/05/15 09:12, toki wrote: In theory, something like that should be doable on Windows. In practice, maybe not. I don't use windows routinely now - but I did (and still do) use perl an awful lot to make up for the system's own scripting deficiencies. It wouldn't be hard to write one that takes a directory as argument, looks up all the relevant files therein, and runs an appropriate soffice command to open them. It could even be portable, with care :-) (No doubt python would be preferred these days.) -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically
Hi Toki, That is a Linux shell script is it not? I think it's been established that the OP is a Windows user. Please identify the Windows equivalent file as well as the quoted Linux file. I am guessing that it exists in the user's file system once LO is installed and that it is invoked when execution of soffice begins. You speak of editing the script so that it opens the specific calc (.ods?) files. I have not exhaustively examined the 3 1/2 printed pages the script occupies so pardon me if the next question is answered in an obvious manner within the script. Where does one look in the script for the code to open certain calc files? This is a very interesting discussion. -- Jim -Original Message (heavily pruned)- From: toki toki.kant...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wed, 27 May 2015 22:26 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically On 27/05/2015 19:28, Steve Edmonds wrote: This is still not what the OP wants. What he wants to know, is how to edit « #!/bin/sh # # This file is part of the LibreOffice project. # -8= # oosplash does the rest: forcing pages in, javaldx etc. are exec $VALGRINDCHECK $STRACECHECK $sd_prog/oosplash $@ » so that it opens the specific calc files. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically
On 28/05/2015 07:18, James E Lang wrote: I think it's been established that the OP is a Windows user. FWIW, the OP said they used both Windows and Linux. Please identify the Windows equivalent file as well as the quoted Linux file The quoted Linux file is /opt/libreoffice4.4/program/soffice Inasmuch as I no longer do Windows, I have no idea where the equivalent file is found in Windows, nor what it is called. I do know that on my old DosBox, I used to be able to do things like «for f in *; do; libreoffice --calc -o $f; done». Not for LibreOffice, since it was not compiled for Dos,^1 but I could do it with other programs. I have no idea how much of that was due to modifications made to my Dosbox. (My most frequently used manual for that system was O'Reilly's Referee book. I don't remember which version of BSD or Unix it was written for. True to its roots in Dos, more than once a shell script tripped up, because I used / instead of \.) In theory, something like that should be doable on Windows. In practice, maybe not. I am guessing that it exists in the user's file system once LO is installed and that it is invoked when execution of soffice begins. C:\Programs\LibreOffice\program\soffice would be my guess. But I have pretty much forgotten most of what I knew about Windows configuration, and file placement. You speak of editing the script so that it opens the specific calc (.ods?) files. It's your standard shell script, albeit with a couple of complications thrown in, for good measure. Where does one look in the script for the code to open certain calc files? I've forgotten which lines I changed, when i wanted that specific functionality. :( It was/is much simpler to simply alias «for f in *; do; libreoffice --calc -o $f; done» than modify that shell script. Wondering now if I simply renamed soffice to soffice1, and named the shell script soffice. Point is, what the OP wants to do can be done, at least in a *Nix environment. # In summary: * Option # 1: Edit the default shell script that starts LibreOffice; * Option # 2: Write a shell script, and use that as an alias for soffice; * Option #3: Try to force the desktop icon, start menu, and desktop icon to accept «for f in *; do; libreoffice --calc -o $f; done» as the command to invoke, when selected. Most important: Find a more efficient way to do «for f in *; do; libreoffice --calc -o $f; done» ^1: Back in the days before OOo 1.0, I tried compiling the *Nix code on my DosBox. Needless to say, it failed with a slew of error messages complaining about unsupported/unavailable libraries. Too many error messages for me to consider further work on porting it to DOS. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically
On 05/28/2015 02:25 PM, toki wrote: On 27/05/2015 19:28, Steve Edmonds wrote: This is still not what the OP wants. What he wants to know, is how to edit Good afternoon. I do not want to be rude, but THAT is definitely NOT want I want(ed). I was looking for a SIMPLE / EASY / PRACTICABLE way to open files. As described originally: 1)Lotus 123 - specific folder (ONCE) 2)Put the files I want to open in there. 3)Every time after that, when I open 123 spreadsheet, those 2-3 files open. Job done. No questions asked. No editing or programming. Quick and painless. THAT is, what I was looking for. In case there is a stand-alone spreadsheet program (NOT Excel!) that can do this trick .. I would love to learn its name. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically
2015-05-28 9:18 GMT+02:00 James E Lang jim+...@lang.hm: Hi Toki, That is a Linux shell script is it not? I think it's been established that the OP is a Windows user. I quote a section from the OP's second post in this thread: ”Windows XP (about to be decommisioned) Windows 7 Windows 8.1 kubuntu 14.04 xubuntu 14.04 Mint 17, Cinnamon” So he use Windows, but not only. Please identify the Windows equivalent file as well as the quoted Linux file. I am guessing that it exists in the user's file system once LO is installed and that it is invoked when execution of soffice begins. You speak of editing the script so that it opens the specific calc (.ods?) files. I have not exhaustively examined the 3 1/2 printed pages the script occupies so pardon me if the next question is answered in an obvious manner within the script. Where does one look in the script for the code to open certain calc files? This is a very interesting discussion. -- Jim -Original Message (heavily pruned)- From: toki toki.kant...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wed, 27 May 2015 22:26 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically On 27/05/2015 19:28, Steve Edmonds wrote: This is still not what the OP wants. What he wants to know, is how to edit « #!/bin/sh # # This file is part of the LibreOffice project. # -8= # oosplash does the rest: forcing pages in, javaldx etc. are exec $VALGRINDCHECK $STRACECHECK $sd_prog/oosplash $@ » so that it opens the specific calc files. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically
On 27/05/15 09:32 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) If the folder contains some spreadsheets and some other things and you only want to open the spreadsheets then the fastest way i can think of is to use the file-browser to arrange/sort the files by type rather than by name or date. That might make it easier to select them all. I think other people have had better suggestions already though. I was wondering if it might be possible to script it but kinda assumed it probably wouldn't be at all easy = so i like Gary's suggestion! :) Regards from Tom :) Thanks Tom. If the OP is using Windows, it should still work although they may not be able to do the file loop. The raw command should work on any OS so it may just be a matter of using lots of -o's or running the command multiple times, once per file. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically
On 27/05/15 02:05 AM, Brian Barker wrote: At 10:22 27/05/2015 +0900, Thomas Noname wrote: Is there a trick to tell LibreOffice, in particular Calc, to open files automatically? Not that I know of. (Perhaps someone knows better.) Lotus 123 allows to specify a folder and then opens the files therein automatically whenever the software is started. For those administrative tasks, a set of 2-3 files, this is VERY convenient. I would like to convert those 123-files into Calc format and have Calc open them *automatically* whenever I start Calc. It's worth mentioning that you cannot start Calc: that's not how LibreOffice works. You can do either of two different things: either start LibreOffice or start LibreOffice with a new, empty spreadsheet. And that tells you something about your problem: if you could do what you wanted, there would be no way to prevent your spreadsheet documents being opened if you wanted to start LibreOffice to edit a text file (or, as you would say, start Writer) or presentation or whatever instead. I have no problem starting Calc nor opening several spreadsheets automatically. I select the sheets I open in Dolphin (or any other file manager) and right-click on the selection then select Open with. Calc is the default program to open .ods documents so they all open. Since the OP wants a job to run at startup, simply use the command-line to do the job: libreoffice --calc -o file1 -o file2 ... Put that into a script or a link to a script in your Autostart folder (.kde/Autostart on my KDE system). To open all the files in a folder, just use a loop like this: for f in *; do; libreoffice --calc -o $f; done We don't need no stinking features when we've got a real command line. :) There are many workarounds, which depend on your operating system - which you have kept a secret. (You appear to be using Windows XP.) o Your operating system will probably offer a way to start programs at start-up - when you log in, that is. You could put your document files (or possibly shortcuts to them?) in the appropriate folder. o You could put your documents or shortcuts to them somewhere convenient, such as on the desktop or in the start menu, and then click on these when you need the documents open. o (Probably best) Put the documents in a convenient folder. (You've done that already.) Create a shortcut to this on the desktop or in the start menu. When you need to open the documents, (1) click or double-click the shortcut to open the folder, (2) select all the document files together (using Edit | Select All or Ctrl+A?), and (3) press Enter to open all the documents (whether or not LibreOffice is already running). I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically
Hi :) If the folder contains some spreadsheets and some other things and you only want to open the spreadsheets then the fastest way i can think of is to use the file-browser to arrange/sort the files by type rather than by name or date. That might make it easier to select them all. I think other people have had better suggestions already though. I was wondering if it might be possible to script it but kinda assumed it probably wouldn't be at all easy = so i like Gary's suggestion! :) Regards from Tom :) On 27 May 2015 at 14:15, Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net wrote: On 27/05/15 02:05 AM, Brian Barker wrote: At 10:22 27/05/2015 +0900, Thomas Noname wrote: Is there a trick to tell LibreOffice, in particular Calc, to open files automatically? Not that I know of. (Perhaps someone knows better.) Lotus 123 allows to specify a folder and then opens the files therein automatically whenever the software is started. For those administrative tasks, a set of 2-3 files, this is VERY convenient. I would like to convert those 123-files into Calc format and have Calc open them *automatically* whenever I start Calc. It's worth mentioning that you cannot start Calc: that's not how LibreOffice works. You can do either of two different things: either start LibreOffice or start LibreOffice with a new, empty spreadsheet. And that tells you something about your problem: if you could do what you wanted, there would be no way to prevent your spreadsheet documents being opened if you wanted to start LibreOffice to edit a text file (or, as you would say, start Writer) or presentation or whatever instead. I have no problem starting Calc nor opening several spreadsheets automatically. I select the sheets I open in Dolphin (or any other file manager) and right-click on the selection then select Open with. Calc is the default program to open .ods documents so they all open. Since the OP wants a job to run at startup, simply use the command-line to do the job: libreoffice --calc -o file1 -o file2 ... Put that into a script or a link to a script in your Autostart folder (.kde/Autostart on my KDE system). To open all the files in a folder, just use a loop like this: for f in *; do; libreoffice --calc -o $f; done We don't need no stinking features when we've got a real command line. :) There are many workarounds, which depend on your operating system - which you have kept a secret. (You appear to be using Windows XP.) o Your operating system will probably offer a way to start programs at start-up - when you log in, that is. You could put your document files (or possibly shortcuts to them?) in the appropriate folder. o You could put your documents or shortcuts to them somewhere convenient, such as on the desktop or in the start menu, and then click on these when you need the documents open. o (Probably best) Put the documents in a convenient folder. (You've done that already.) Create a shortcut to this on the desktop or in the start menu. When you need to open the documents, (1) click or double-click the shortcut to open the folder, (2) select all the document files together (using Edit | Select All or Ctrl+A?), and (3) press Enter to open all the documents (whether or not LibreOffice is already running). I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically
2015-05-27 15:15 GMT+02:00 Gary Dale garyd...@torfree.net: Put that into a script or a link to a script in your Autostart folder (.kde/Autostart on my KDE system). To open all the files in a folder, just use a loop like this: for f in *; do; libreoffice --calc -o $f; done We don't need no stinking features when we've got a real command line. :) Nitpicking, but for that you can just do: $ libreoffice *.ods The -o is only needed if you want to open template for edition, and --calc is redundant if the file are spreadsheet :) (also, this will be noticeably more efficient: your for loop start a new process for every file, which can lead to race condition and stuff). This is only if your shell is up to the task though. On windows, using wildcard like * doesn't work with libreoffice. You can still open multiple file with a single command by passing them one after another. But, on windows, you also have to pass the full soffice.exe path to the command line as it is not in the path :\ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically
At 09:15 27/05/2015 -0400, Gary Dale wrote: At 10:22 27/05/2015 +0900, Thomas Noname wrote: Is there a trick to tell LibreOffice, in particular Calc, to open files automatically? Lotus 123 allows to specify a folder and then opens the files therein automatically whenever the software is started. For those administrative tasks, a set of 2-3 files, this is VERY convenient. I would like to convert those 123-files into Calc format and have Calc open them *automatically* whenever I start Calc. I have no problem starting Calc nor opening several spreadsheets automatically. I select the sheets I open in Dolphin (or any other file manager) and right-click on the selection then select Open with. Calc is the default program to open .ods documents so they all open. It's easy to solve a problem by changing the problem! This isn't what the questioner means by automatically. He no doubt understands the idea of file association that you describe here (when you surely don't need open with anyway?). Instead, he wants a specific set of files to open without their being selected each time: that's his meaning of automatic. Since the OP wants a job to run at startup, simply use the command-line to do the job: libreoffice --calc -o file1 -o file2 ... Put that into a script or a link to a script in your Autostart folder (.kde/Autostart on my KDE system). To open all the files in a folder, just use a loop like this: for f in *; do; libreoffice --calc -o $f; done No, he doesn't want it at start-up, it seems, but instead when he starts LibreOffice. But something like this as a desktop shortcut or menu item (not in the start-up folder) is no doubt ideal. Brian Barker -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically
2015-05-27 19:46 GMT+02:00 Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com: No, he doesn't want it at start-up, it seems, but instead when he starts LibreOffice. But something like this as a desktop shortcut or menu item (not in the start-up folder) is no doubt ideal. Since we're talking windows (I missed that information from previous post, sorry), making a shortcut that open multiple files is trivial. The only obstacle would be to easily get all the file paths. To create the shortcut (on the desktop or anywhere else really): in the start menu, go to the LibreOffice entry (no need to use calc specifically), and right-click-drag (drag with the right click) where you want the shortcut. When releasing the mouse button, a menu show up giving the occasion to create a shortcut. At this point, the new shortcut can be edited (right click-properties). In the target box, there's something that end with soffice.exe. You can put file names after this. For example, the whole box could read like this (including the quotes): C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 4\program\soffice.exe E:\Documents\smth1.ods E:\smth2.odt Then click ok. That link will cause LibreOffice to open all the given document. As a final hint, there's a way to *easily* get all the files you want, with their path. - Open a shell (no, it won't hurt) by pressing Win+R, and typing cmd as the command - In the shell, type (without the quotes of course): more Desktop\filelist.txt - Drag'n'drop all your files one by one in the shell window, pressing space after each files - When done, press return, then ctrl+c - type exit to leave the shell At this point, you have a file named filelist.txt on your desktop, containing all files with full path. You just have to copy/paste this string in your shortcut :) As said by others, I'd rather not see LibreOffice itself getting this feature. It is something that can be achieved rather easily in any OS. One could argue that it's even *the point* of modern systems... -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically
This is still not what the OP wants. It is possible to come close by saving the files when you are finished editing but keeping them open. Then kill Libreoffice (not FileExit). On restarting LO next time it should ask to restore the files you had open. Could also file a bug as a feature request steve On 2015-05-28 07:03, Cley Faye wrote: 2015-05-27 19:46 GMT+02:00 Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com: No, he doesn't want it at start-up, it seems, but instead when he starts LibreOffice. But something like this as a desktop shortcut or menu item (not in the start-up folder) is no doubt ideal. Since we're talking windows (I missed that information from previous post, sorry), making a shortcut that open multiple files is trivial. The only obstacle would be to easily get all the file paths. To create the shortcut (on the desktop or anywhere else really): in the start menu, go to the LibreOffice entry (no need to use calc specifically), and right-click-drag (drag with the right click) where you want the shortcut. When releasing the mouse button, a menu show up giving the occasion to create a shortcut. At this point, the new shortcut can be edited (right click-properties). In the target box, there's something that end with soffice.exe. You can put file names after this. For example, the whole box could read like this (including the quotes): C:\Program Files (x86)\LibreOffice 4\program\soffice.exe E:\Documents\smth1.ods E:\smth2.odt Then click ok. That link will cause LibreOffice to open all the given document. As a final hint, there's a way to *easily* get all the files you want, with their path. - Open a shell (no, it won't hurt) by pressing Win+R, and typing cmd as the command - In the shell, type (without the quotes of course): more Desktop\filelist.txt - Drag'n'drop all your files one by one in the shell window, pressing space after each files - When done, press return, then ctrl+c - type exit to leave the shell At this point, you have a file named filelist.txt on your desktop, containing all files with full path. You just have to copy/paste this string in your shortcut :) As said by others, I'd rather not see LibreOffice itself getting this feature. It is something that can be achieved rather easily in any OS. One could argue that it's even *the point* of modern systems... -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically
At 10:22 27/05/2015 +0900, Thomas Noname wrote: Is there a trick to tell LibreOffice, in particular Calc, to open files automatically? Not that I know of. (Perhaps someone knows better.) Lotus 123 allows to specify a folder and then opens the files therein automatically whenever the software is started. For those administrative tasks, a set of 2-3 files, this is VERY convenient. I would like to convert those 123-files into Calc format and have Calc open them *automatically* whenever I start Calc. It's worth mentioning that you cannot start Calc: that's not how LibreOffice works. You can do either of two different things: either start LibreOffice or start LibreOffice with a new, empty spreadsheet. And that tells you something about your problem: if you could do what you wanted, there would be no way to prevent your spreadsheet documents being opened if you wanted to start LibreOffice to edit a text file (or, as you would say, start Writer) or presentation or whatever instead. There are many workarounds, which depend on your operating system - which you have kept a secret. (You appear to be using Windows XP.) o Your operating system will probably offer a way to start programs at start-up - when you log in, that is. You could put your document files (or possibly shortcuts to them?) in the appropriate folder. o You could put your documents or shortcuts to them somewhere convenient, such as on the desktop or in the start menu, and then click on these when you need the documents open. o (Probably best) Put the documents in a convenient folder. (You've done that already.) Create a shortcut to this on the desktop or in the start menu. When you need to open the documents, (1) click or double-click the shortcut to open the folder, (2) select all the document files together (using Edit | Select All or Ctrl+A?), and (3) press Enter to open all the documents (whether or not LibreOffice is already running). I trust this helps. Brian Barker -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically
On 27/05/2015 19:28, Steve Edmonds wrote:
This is still not what the OP wants.
What he wants to know, is how to edit
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#!/bin/sh
#
# This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
#
# This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
# License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
# file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
#
# This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
#
# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
# contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
# with this work for additional information regarding copyright
# ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
# License, Version 2.0 (the License); you may not use this file
# except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
# the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
#
# use POSIX locale for well-defined tool output
LO_SAVE_LC_ALL=$LC_ALL
LC_ALL=C
export LC_ALL
#
# STAR_PROFILE_LOCKING_DISABLED=1
# export STAR_PROFILE_LOCKING_DISABLED
#
# file locking now enabled by default
SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING=1
export SAL_ENABLE_FILE_LOCKING
# Uncomment the line below if you suspect that OpenGL is not
# working on your system.
# SAL_NOOPENGL=true; export SAL_NOOPENGL
# uncomment line below to disable anti aliasing of fonts
# SAL_ANTIALIAS_DISABLE=true; export SAL_ANTIALIAS_DISABLE
# uncomment line below if you encounter problems starting soffice on
your system
# SAL_NO_XINITTHREADS=true; export SAL_NO_XINITTHREADS
#@JITC_PROCESSOR_TYPE_EXPORT@
# resolve installation directory
sd_cwd=`pwd`
sd_res=$0
while [ -h $sd_res ] ; do
cd `dirname $sd_res`
sd_basename=`basename $sd_res`
sd_res=`ls -l $sd_basename | sed s/.*$sd_basename - //g`
done
cd `dirname $sd_res`
sd_prog=`pwd`
cd $sd_cwd
# linked build needs additional settings
if [ -e $sd_prog/ooenv ] ; then
. $sd_prog/ooenv
fi
# try to get some debug output?
GDBTRACECHECK=
STRACECHECK=
VALGRINDCHECK=
# count number of selected checks; only one is allowed
checks=
# force the --valgrind option if the VALGRIND variable is set
test -n $VALGRIND VALGRINDOPT=--valgrind || VALGRINDOPT=
for arg in $@ $VALGRINDOPT ; do
case $arg in
--backtrace)
if which gdb /dev/null 21 ; then
GDBTRACECHECK=gdb -nx --command=$sd_prog/gdbtrace --args
checks=c$checks
else
echo Error: Can't find the tool \gdb\, --backtrace
option will be ignored.
exit 1
fi
;;
--strace)
if which strace /dev/null 21 ; then
STRACECHECK=strace -o strace.log -f -tt -s 256
checks=c$checks
else
echo Error: Can't find the tool \strace\, --strace
option will be ignored.
exit 1;
fi
;;
--valgrind)
test -n $VALGRINDCHECK continue;
if which valgrind /dev/null 21 ; then
# another valgrind tool might be forced via the
environment variable
test -z $VALGRIND VALGRIND=memcheck
# --trace-children-skip is pretty useful but supported
only with valgrind = 3.6.0
valgrind_ver=`valgrind --version | sed -e s/valgrind-//`
valgrind_ver_maj=`echo $valgrind_ver | awk -F. '{ print
\$1 }'`
valgrind_ver_min=`echo $valgrind_ver | awk -F. '{ print
\$2 }'`
valgrind_skip=
if [ $valgrind_ver_maj -gt 3 -o \( $valgrind_ver_maj
-eq 3 -a $valgrind_ver_min -ge 6 \) ] ; then
valgrind_skip='--trace-children-skip=*/java,*/gij'
fi
# finally set the valgrind check
VALGRINDCHECK=valgrind --tool=$VALGRIND
--trace-children=yes $valgrind_skip --num-callers=50 --error-limit=no
echo use kill -SIGUSR2 pid to dump traces of active
allocations
checks=c$checks
case $VALGRIND in
helgrind|memcheck)
export G_SLICE=always-malloc
export GLIBCXX_FORCE_NEW=1
;;
esac
else
echo Error: Can't find the tool \valgrind\,
--valgrind option will be ignored
exit 1
fi
;;
esac
done
if echo $checks | grep -q cc ; then
echo Error: The debug options --backtrace, --strace, and --valgrind
cannot be used together.
echoPlease, use them one by one.
exit 1;
fi
case `uname -s` in
NetBSD|OpenBSD|FreeBSD|DragonFly)
# this is a temporary hack until we can live with the default search paths
sd_prog1=$sd_prog
sd_prog2=$sd_prog/../ure-link/lib
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$sd_prog1:$sd_prog2${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
JAVA_HOME=$(javaPathHelper -h libreoffice-java 2 /dev/null)
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
if [ -n
Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically
On 27/05/2015 01:22, Thomas wrote: Is there a trick to tell LibreOffice, in particular Calc, to open files automatically? What operating system? jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] open files automatically
On 2015/05/27 15:05, Brian Barker wrote: At 10:22 27/05/2015 +0900, Thomas Noname wrote: Is there a trick to tell LibreOffice, in particular Calc, to open files automatically? Not that I know of. (Perhaps someone knows better.) Lotus 123 allows to specify a folder and then opens the files therein automatically whenever the software is started. For those administrative tasks, a set of 2-3 files, this is VERY convenient. I would like to convert those 123-files into Calc format and have Calc open them *automatically* whenever I start Calc. o (Probably best) Put the documents in a convenient folder. (You've done that already.) Create a shortcut to this on the desktop or in the start menu. When you need to open the documents, (1) click or double-click the shortcut to open the folder, (2) select all the document files together (using Edit | Select All or Ctrl+A?), and (3) press Enter to open all the documents (whether or not LibreOffice is already running). I will try this last approach and see, if I can get it to work. LibreOffice - I use it on all my machines: Windows XP (about to be decommisioned) Windows 7 Windows 8.1 kubuntu 14.04 xubuntu 14.04 Mint 17, Cinnamon The problem is naturally everywhere the same. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] open files automatically
Good morning from Japan Maybe (I do not remember exactly) I did ask the same question years ago. Is there a trick to tell LibreOffice, in particular Calc, to open files automatically? For the last 15 years or so I have been using Lotus 123 to keep track of simple tasks like appointments, patient names etc. But this software is now too old to work any longer (so the computer tells me). Lotus 123 allows to specify a folder and then opens the files therein automatically whenever the software is started. For those administrative tasks, a set of 2-3 files, this is VERY convenient. I would like to convert those 123-files into Calc format and have Calc open them *automatically* whenever I start Calc. Is that possible? If so, how do you do that? Thank you. Thomas -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
