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

Hi :)
I take it that it's not easy to re-write all the macros in, say Java, into Basic (or the other way 
around)?  Also I take it that the 
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Administration_Guide/Using_Custom_Macros_and_Libraries
needs significant updating?  
Apols and regards from 
Tom :)  





> ________________________________
> From: Vieri <rentorbuy@yahoo.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Friday, 14 June 2013, 8:02
> Subject: 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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