Re: [libreoffice-users] create custom macro within share location (program files)

Hi Andrew,

The link that Tom refers to lead me to several documents of which only one deals with what I want 
to do (which is install a macro that is global to openoffice/libreoffice). That would be 
location=share and on Windows the path would be %PROGRAMFILES%\libreoffice 4.0\share\basic\.

> From the LO/OO GUI I can't create any NEW macros within the "global container" (grayed out). And I 
> haven't found any option to enable it. So there's obviously some kind of security reason that I 
> don't know how to circumvent.

The only document within Tom's links that should do what I want is the following:

http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Administration_Guide/Using_Custom_Macros_and_Libraries

"To Make a Custom OpenOffice.org Basic Library Available to All Users on a Network"

The basic idea of this guide is to create my macros within my "user profile folder" and then copy 
them to the "global share folder". However, note how the guide suggests to include in script.xlc 
and dialog.xlc: the library xlink:href should point to $(USER)/basic...etc.
I find that wrong (or not what I want).
I understand that $(USER) points to the user profile folder where I first wrote my macros. It 
doesn't point to the "global share folder". So maybe it does make the macros available in OO/LO on 
that PC as "global macros" BUT it is required to keep a copy of the macros in the $USER dir. Am I 
right?

What I would like to do (or at least that's what I feel should be done) is not to COPY the macros 
from a user dir to the global share dir but to MOVE them. So if I do that then the library 
xlink:href in script.xlc and dialog.xlc should point to something like 
"$(INST)/share/basic/MyLibraryName/script.xlb/". Doing so doesn't make LO or OO complain BUT I 
don't see my library listed in the "gloabl macros tree mode". So I can't run my macros in the 
"global share".

As I stated in another e-mail on this list, I managed to actually install my custom BASIC macros 
within the "global share" by creating my own extension .oxt file. So I'd be happy with that except 
for the fact that I can't also bundle my JAVA macros in my extension oxt file. So I'm stuck in the 
middle: I can install my Java macros by copying them over to the global share (and they work!) but 
I can0t do the same with Basic macros; and on the other hand I can deploy my Basic macros with a 
custom extension but not my Java macros. I can combine both methods to do what I need (ie. "install 
custom Basic and Java macros in the global share") but that doesn't sound "clean" or efficient.

Any more ideas?

Thanks,

Vieri

--- On Thu, 6/13/13, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak <andrew@pitonyak.org> wrote:

> Openoffice stores individual macros
> in modules. Modules are stored in libraries, and libraries
> are stored in macro containers.
>
> Three "things" can be macro containers, documents, your user
> space, and one that is global to OpenOffice. It sounds like
> you desire to add a macro that is global to OpenOffice. I
> have never done this.... It is not enabled on my Linux
> system, is it available to you to do from the GUI when you
> are logged in as an administrator?
>
> I expect that the Link from Tom Davis is the best you can
> find, since I don't see an ability to set the Macro location
> directories in the configuration.
>
> On 06/12/2013 02:26 AM, Vieri wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is probably trivial but I'm not capable of
> correctly creating new custom macros within
> %PROGRAMFILES%\LibreOffice 4.0\share\basic\ (Windows 7).
> > My goal is to setup some custom macros globally for all
> users (location=share). I don't want to include the macros
> within location=document because I'll be deploying lots of
> docs and it would be a pain to maintain/update macros within
> every single odt document. I'd also like to avoid
> location=user (or location=application - I don't remember
> which is which) because I have PCs that are being used by
> lots of users and copying/syncing "user macros" to each user
> profile on every machine would be a waste of space and
> network bandwidth.
> > That's why I was hoping to install and update all my
> macros within the main LO application.
> > Another even better way would be to tell the LO
> application that my custom macros can be found on a remote
> server, eg. something like "location=url". This way, I'd
> maintain my macros on my web/ftp/webdav/whatever server
> (just one single copy) and forget about syncing them with
> each and every LO client installation.
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Vieri


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