Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 95895
4 info fields is not enough, request to have 5 or 6 of them
Last modified: 2008-11-07 20:43:03 UTC
In OOO 3.0 (and all previous versions) in document properties, there is a tab where user can enter 4 info fields. This is not enough for a lot of business situations. First: that's not enough: e.g. a company may have an Info field for "Project Code", "Project Name", "Security Clasisification" and "Status" (e.g. if should be archived or not), quickly used up all 4 fields. Adding an "revision" and "Partner" (which company also involved in using or creating this document) is not possible. Second: there is space. On my installation OOO3.0 on Linux/PowerPC, the space is available for up to 6 fields. On the other hand in Microsoft Word there are unlimited fields for customized key-value pair as document property. We used to use MSO manage our documents and find we must cut away some fields when we switching to OOO. I am sure this is not only a Writer problem, but not knowing where to file this issue. Can you help me categorize this request correctly? Thanks.
Reassigned to requirements.
hi zhangweiwu, of course that document properties dialog is an atrocity. you can actually have as many properties as you want, OOo will load and save them and make them available in the API, but the stupid dialog displays only 4. OOo 3.1 will have a redesigned dialog that is much nicer, and it can display not just 4. 5 or 6 properties, but as many as you want. (unfortunately, that dialog missed the OOo 3.0 UI freeze by a week or 2, and was thus delayed to OOo 3.1.) btw, the correct category for things like the document properties that are common across all applications is "framework". *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 86606 ***
close the DUPLICATE issue