Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 92722
"Remove personal information on saving" does not remove note's author
Last modified: 2017-05-20 10:55:24 UTC
In Microsoft word, the "remove personal information on saving" option removes the author of notes and replaces them with "Author". OOo has the same option (Options->OpenOffice.org->Security->Options), but even when selected notes' authors are left with the name of the individual (i.e., personal information).
Reassigned to ES.
@MOD/MAV/MBA: well this is an enhancement between notes and security. The question is if we plan/want/can implement this in an upcoming Notes CWS or if we simply reassign for requirement?
for me, this is a bug and not an enhancement. The dialog says "remove personal information on saving", but only the userdata is removed. Notes author, all authors in relation to change tracking and probably other stuff as well is not removed.
Thanks for looking into this. Using my pedestrian use of the word "bug" I think this is not an enhancement but a bug. I think this is a pretty serious shortcomming. I used the "remove personal information on saving" button expecting it to remove my name everywhere it occured in the document. My expectation was caused both by the obvious meaning of the phrase "personal information" but also because the button (with an identical name) in MS Office *does* remove names from notes. My name occurring in the comments is as much personal information as my name occurring in the metadata, in my case I didn't care about my name in the metadata, but I *did* care about having my name in the notes. If this button doesn't remove this information I think (a) it shouldn't say "personal information", (b) it shouldn't read exactly like a button in another program and behave differently, and (c) it ought to warn you that some information (like your name in notes) won't be removed.
mod->mba: same issue in calc, so it should be done inside sfx2 somewhere
Resetting 'Version'
I think it doesn't matter whether we call it "bug" or "enhancement". In fact the function does exactly what it is supposed to do, so the bug may be that the description of it in the dialog is misleading. But it wouldn't help fixing that, right? What we need is a new function that removes personal information *everywhere*. This is not only metadata but also comments - and perhaps also in text fields and change tracking, I assume. This is a reasonable request.
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".