2016-04-15 1:42 GMT+02:00 Dennis E. Hamilton <dennis.hamil...@acm.org>:
> This behavior is a result of a security-vulnerability mitigation that was > introduced in Apache OpenOffice 4.1.2. See > <http://www.openoffice.org/security/cves/CVE-2015-4551.html>. > > The remedy that was used is not very nuanced. I believe that the Tools > > Options > OpenOffice Calc > General > Updating options are ignored and "On > request" is performed instead of "Always." > > You can verify that. > Yes, Always was ticked in my case, but it was ignored. I selected Never and I got rid of the dialogue, however with links not updated… at least better than before. I suppose I can update them manually when needed, right? But why is ”Always” ignored? Wouldn't it be better to let ”On demand” be the default option? At least I think so. If an options is ignored, it should either be corrected or removed. > > See Bugzilla Issue 126641, > <https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=126641>. > > If you are careful to use the workaround only when working with > spreadsheets of your own creation and not obtained from others, the > adjustment that Andrea Pescetti describes might work for you, even though > it talks about macros. Try it. > I'll have a look at it. And yes, almost everything spreadsheet are made by me for me and nobody else, and hopefully I know what I'm doing… Kind regards Johnny Rosenberg > > With regard to the notification about whether updating from links was > successful or not, we probably would require that to be there, simply > because it is the only way someone might see that unexpected link updating > is happening when part of a covert action. That should be treated as a > separate issue for further consideration. That is not going to happen so > easily. > > - Dennis > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Johnny Rosenberg [mailto:gurus.knu...@gmail.com] > > Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2016 14:56 > > To: users@openoffice.apache.org > > Subject: Default behaviour with links to other documents > > > > I have a few spreadsheet documents that contain one or more links to > > other > > documents. Every time I open them I get the very annoying question about > > whether I want the links to be updated or not. > > > > Is there a way I can set a default behaviour for that? I mean the > > current > > behaviour seems to be ”ask the user”, and I want it do be either ”yes” > > or > > ”no”, just so I don't need to get annoyed by that irritating dialogue > > every > > time I open such a document (which I do daily). > > > > And if I select ”yes” or ”no” as default behaviour, I don't want to see > > any > > dialogue windows about it at all from there on. No ”Your links were > > updated > > successfully”, nor ”Your links were not updated”. > > > > > > Kind regards > > > > Johnsenberg > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > >
