Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: stubborn macro security

Dennis,
That helped a lot.  I found the "UpdateFromTemplate" definition in the 
settings.xml file as you suggested.  I was able to change the assignment 
from "false" to "true" and tried it, but it didn't seem to pick up on 
the changed template.  I will have to do some more work on this but I 
wanted to let you know your help was appreciated and opened a door for 
me to fix this problem.  Maybe I can write a shell script to make the 
change to the settings.xml directly instead of using the suggested macro 
approach.  I have a lot of files that need this change.
Thanks much.
Girvin



Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> From what Andreas says, it appears that the flag you care about is in settings.xml within the 
> Zipped .odt package.
>
> It is generally benign to simply delete the settings.xml file.  Try it on a copy to see if it 
> accomplishes what you want.
>
>  - Dennis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Girvin R. Herr [mailto:girvin.herr@sbcglobal.net] 
> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2012 14:45
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: stubborn macro security
>
> Andreas,
>
> Andreas Säger wrote:
>   
> > Where is the macro stored? Obviously you store it in the template and 
> > all resulting documents from that template inherit the macro.
> > When you store a new document from that template in some untrusted 
> > location, the macro can not be trusted anymore.
> >
> >     
> I assume the macro is stored in the particular document I wanted to 
> change.  I used the process in the 3.4 Writer Guide, "Updating a 
> Document From a Changed Template" attempting to change that document's 
> template update flag.  In this document and some others, in the past I 
> must have clicked on "Keep Old Styles" in the popup and according to the 
> Writer Guide, that sets a flag to never allow template updates again for 
> the document.  Apparently, the only way to re-enable it is to run this 
> BASIC Macro to set the "oDocSettings.UpdateFromTemplate" flag to 
> "True".  It is supposed to cancel the "Keep Old Styles" selection.  The 
> macro function is called "FixDocV3" if that helps.
>
> I just realized that this is a *BASIC* macro, not the usual keystroke 
> type macro.  That difference may have confused you and other users when 
> reading my message.  Does a BASIC macro have a different security option 
> somewhere?
>
> Not knowing what the file format is, is it possible to unzip the 
> document and search for "UpdateFromTemplate" and edit it to "True", as 
> an alternate to the BASIC macro?
> If "UpdateFromTemplate" is hard-coded into the document rather than the 
> symbolic name, I would need to know where it is in the document to 
> change it, which I don't know.
> Thanks.
> Girvin
>
>
>   

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