The above screenshot shows an English user interface, DIP version 0.9.5, using Linux KDE 3.5, resolution 1024x768 with OOo 2.3.0
To keep your privacy.
If you like to reset all values you can always hit the "Delete" button in the File>Properties dialogue on the "General" page of an opened document.
OOo Online Help for that Delete button:
Resets the editing time to zero, the creation date to the current date and time, and the version number to 1. The modification and printing dates are also deleted.
If you are passing an OOo document to somebody, you may not want to give him or her insight of how long you edited the document or when you (or who else) started working on it. Such information is stored in the meta info of a file saved in an OOo documents format. To delete it – open the document, hit the button mentioned above then save the file.
But maybe you need values changed and not totally resetted – e.g. after copying a file from another client's directory.
Someone could also change the values editing the XML file containing that info after unzipping the compressed document file.
For more convenient and fail safe editing use this extension to set the values to your needs.
Use the standard installation procedure for
extensions: Double-click the extension file (with *.oxt file
extension)
or run Tools>Extension Manager...>Add...
(OOo
2.2.x: Tools>Package Manager...>Add...
)
and pick the extension file you have downloaded.
Data for Extensions Online Update feature is provided, see OOo's Online Help.
Run macro "DIP" contained within OOo Basic library "DIP" from the document which document's information you would like to change.
Macro could work with Writer, Calc, Presentation and Impress documents, which were saved at least one time after creation.
You can change the creation, modification and print info (date, time and user name in each case). Display format is ISO8601: year-month-day and hours:minutes:seconds.
The total modification time, which internally is stored in sum of hours, minutes and seconds, is displayed in days and time.
The editing cycle value is the 'count of saving operations'-value. You can reset it to 1.
As the standard "Delete" button do – creation date and information is set to "Now!" if left blank.
All values in the entry fields are stored into an OOo document's meta information fields if leaving the dialogue with the "OK" button. There is no UNDO once the operation was performed.
If you hit the "Cancel" button, hit the "Escape" button on your keyboard or close the dialogue otherwise no change is executed.
The
above screenshot shows an English user interface, DIP version 0.9.5,
using Linux KDE 3.5, resolution 1024x768 with OOo 2.3.0
This group shows the date, time and author stored at creation time of the document.
In here you see the information if the document was ever saved.
If the document ever was printed the timestamp and user of the last of such an action was recorded here.
Sums the hours, minutes and seconds of editing time.
Count of saving actions.
Set entry fields of that group to stored values
Empty the entry fields of that group
Editing
cycles are set to 1 as minimum number
Uses the computer system's time to set the date and time entry fields.
Uses the name from OOo's registry information. Which should be the entry from Tools>Options...>OpenOffice.org>User Data
Reset the entry field values to the actually stored ones.
Imitate a "this document just created" behaviour.
Dismiss any changes and close dialogue.
Write values of the entry fields to meta info and close dialogue.
Creation date and time are set to "Now!"
if left blank.
Creation user is set from registry if left blank.
No other consistency check is performed:
e.g.
you can set modification time ahead of creation time or any date to a
future value. Doing so proves your manipulation and may cause an OOo
program failure.
This extension makes use of the built-in Online Update feature. See OOo's Online Help F1 on topic "Package Manager" (2.2.x) or "Extension Manager" (since 2.3).
Although there is an extension to change the
document's template [Template
Changer] I would like to add a button, which will open a new
dialogue where actual template name, storage and timestamp are
presented. You should be able to pick a template file with a file
ficker dialogue, with different filter settings
( "OpenDocument Template" filter "*.ot*",
"All Files" with/out any file extension, "*" ),
starting from the user's private template directory.
Entry fields
should allow the input of even non existing template data.
Checkbox
should allow immediate update import of styles from template.
What do you think?
0.9.5 2007-11-30 internal testing with Linux and Windows. Going public: presenting user interface for feedback
1.0.0 2007-12-xx initial public release as extension
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