Issue 59224 - Field "author" author must be filled from Document properties, but not from user data
Summary: Field "author" author must be filled from Document properties, but not from u...
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: configuration (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0.1
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2005-12-12 07:10 UTC by vytis
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:38 UTC (History)
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Description vytis 2005-12-12 07:10:51 UTC 
I cannot test it because of issue #58604
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=58604

I write articles in 3 languages : lithuanian, english and russian. For all of
them i need to set author field. In lithuanian and english my name is written
the same, but I must write my name in russian articles in russian. Do i have
change my data in Tools -> Options -> OpenOffice.org -> User Data every time i
start new article, which language differs from previous article?
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2005-12-12 09:33:55 UTC 
Reassigned to ES.
Comment 2 eric.savary 2005-12-12 17:03:33 UTC 
Not a defet but an enhancement request.
But I doubt that we can implement such a transliteration mechanism for fields...
Comment 3 vytis 2005-12-14 08:05:44 UTC 
No, i do not need transliteration. It will not help: In lithuanian you should
write name and last name, in russian - lastname and name, sometimes name of
father (russian tradition, like middle name of americans). 
In some case, for example in scientific articles, you need to add titles "dr.",
"prof." and etc.  

My idea is:
1. Document should to have additional propertie "Author" (maybe list of authors)
2. This field must be filled from "User Data",when document is created    
3. Then It should be able to change author of document without affecting Users
data written in settings of OpenOffice.org

This is also useful when you work on public computers, for example in university.
Comment 4 box 2007-09-03 08:28:19 UTC 
The field 'author' should be added to the File --> Properties menu. When opening
a Microsoft Office .doc file (which has a filled out 'author' field), this
author information doesn't get read-out. Also, when converting that file to PDF,
the author information gets lost.
Comment 5 omne 2008-10-22 17:00:54 UTC 
Properties of a pdf are getting more and more important.
The « author » field must be attached to the document, not to the program one
use to edit it.
For the moment, using my ebook reader, or Adobe Digital Edition, the information
in the library (who are based on the pdf property) are wrong if i’m not the
author of the document, but just the one who made the pdf (and it’s realy diffrent).
Comment 6 auberon 2009-03-25 17:46:04 UTC 
François Gatto, on the French user mailing-list, has created this macro to edit 
the author field:

Sub EditAuthorField
    Dim oDoc As Object
    Dim sAuthor As String, sMsg As String
    Dim iRep As Integer
    oDoc = ThisComponent
    sAuthor = "Current author is: " & oDoc.DocumentInfo.Author
    sAuthor = sAuthor & Chr(10) & Chr(10) & "Enter the author's name of this 
document:"
    sAuthor = InputBox( sAuthor, ":: Edit field Author ::")
    sMsg = "The new field will be: " & Chr(10) & sAuthor
    If sAuthor <> "" Then
      iRep = MsgBox (sMsg, 4 + 32 + 256, "Please, confirm")
      If iRep = 6 Then
        oDoc.DocumentInfo.Author = sAuthor
      End If
    End If
End sub
Comment 7 jbf.faure 2009-10-18 12:37:45 UTC 
@jb : sorry for adding you as CC; I pressed by error the Enter key when I was
adding myself as CC.

Regards
JBF