Re: [libreoffice-users] How can be a property update from python?

On 08/03/2011 05:42 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> On 08/03/2011 12:36 PM, Alberto wrote:
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > I want to set a custom property (like "AuthorLastName") in a document
> > before saving it as PDF.
>
> Never done it..... poke around a little bit....
>
>   Dim oDocInfo
>   Dim oUDP
>   oDocInfo = ThisComponent.getDocumentInfo()
>   oUDP = oDocInfo.DocumentProperties.UserDefinedProperties
>   If NOT oUDP.getPropertySetInfo().hasPropertyByName("AuthorLastName") 
> Then
>     oUDP.addProperty("AuthorLastName", _
>       com.sun.star.beans.PropertyAttribute.MAYBEVOID + _
>       com.sun.star.beans.PropertyAttribute.REMOVEABLE + _
>       com.sun.star.beans.PropertyAttribute.MAYBEDEFAULT, _
>       "Default Last Name")
>   End If
>
> OK, that seems to work.

But you should get the document properties directly

ThisComponent.getDocumentProperties()

Rather than obtaining them from the document info, because that has been 
deprecated.

> > This in python (I want to generate the document as part of a larger 
> > script).
> >
> > I managed to update the fields using:
> > dispatcher.executeDispatch(frame, ".uno:UpdateAll", "", 0, ())
> >
> > I cannot find hot to change a property, this:
> > dispatcher.executeDispatch(frame, ".uno:SetDocumentProperties", "", 0,
> > properties)
> > Opens the property view, which is not what I want.
> >
> > Where can I find some documentation about this?
> > Many thanks,
> > Alberto

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