Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 17733
Need better support for editing document properties
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:40:16 UTC
when editing Word documents, user should be able to edit all document properties. Right now, only title and subject can be edited. Also need Author, Manager, and Company.
Please explain what other documents properties you propose to be able to edit ? and you think it is important ? It is enhancement, not a defect.
reassigned to bh
Did you read my original description: "when editing Word documents, user should be able to edit all document properties. Right now, only title and subject can be edited. Also need Author, Manager, and Company." What part of this did you not understand? I consider this important. In my company, we track the author and company for each document. MS Office provides this, and I doubt we would accept OpenOffice as an alternative without the capability. The custom fields for file properties are not useful when sharing documents with MS Office users, so we can't put the information there. Given that OpenOffice is competing with MS Office and the software supports some, but not all, of the important document properties you can call it a bug or an enhancement (as you wish.) This is the kind of thing that prevents corporate take up.
OO Writer 2.0.3 is almost there. Until this compatibility is completely provided it is hard to switch from MS Word do OO Writer. 1. My company use MS Word to produce documentation, as many companies do (view issue 5091). 2. Every document has at least 6 Custom Fields. 3. If I edit a document in Writer I will lose all these Custom Fields. Please check my simple test: Steps: 1. import Word document with Custom Fields to Writer 2. in Writer save document as Microsoft Word 97/2000/XP (.doc) Results: . After step 1: the Custom Fields are successfully imported to Writer as Variables and are dynamic in text in page. . After step 2: the Variables are successfully exported to Word as Custom Fields BUT ARE NOT dynamic in text, i.e., the variable text is all static in the page! I believe this issue is related or a duplicate of issues 64516 and 5091.
*** Issue 73231 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".