Re: dissociate MyDocument and odb default path

"Frank Schoenheit, Sun Microsystems Germany" <[email protected]> Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:30:49 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.openoffice.dba.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Laurent,

> is it possible to have different paths for the "My Documents" setting 
> and the default directory where OOo creates .odb files
> 
> the problem is that i want to specify the MyDocument on a shared path 
> over a network for multiple users (for any "Open" operation, default 
> path, written protected) but i also want that any mail merge ressource 
> (.odb files cretaed from a calc file for example) is stored on a per 
> user basis to avoid conflicts and have written permissions

I assume you mean the .odb files which are implicitly created (without
asking the user for a location) by Writer. I *assume* (but do not know -
this is Writer code) that there's no configuration option for this. To
be sure, you probably should ask at the Writer list.

Ciao
Frank

-- 
- Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer         [email protected] -
- Sun Microsystems                      http://www.sun.com/staroffice -
- OpenOffice.org Base                       http://dba.openoffice.org -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -