Changing default margins and font for a group of users

Carl · January 24, 2012, 8:42am

Hi,

I need to change the default margins and font in Libreoffice Writer and Calc for a group of about 100 users.
How can I do this without having to go and do it manually on every PC?

Regards

Carl Werner

Fernand_Vanrie · January 24, 2012, 12:44pm

Carl ,

You can change the default template by running a macro on every machine

hope it helps

Fernand

planas · January 24, 2012, 2:38pm

Where is the user data stored? If on a server, create a new default template and update the appropriate file in each user folder (or alternately change the default template location). If locally, I do not have a good idea.

Also, what OS's are involved, I assume Windows.

Tom_Davies · January 24, 2012, 2:47pm

Hi
Would copying the UserProfile be a good way to get all the settings copied?
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile

It might be worth doing a search for how to do a corporate deployment of
LibreOffice or OpenOffice (or a large-scale deployment).
Regards from
Tom

Fernand_Vanrie · January 24, 2012, 5:05pm

Hi,

I need to change the default margins and font in Libreoffice Writer and Calc for a group of about 100 users.
How can I do this without having to go and do it manually on every PC?

Regards

Carl Werner

Where is the user data stored? If on a server, create a new default template and update the appropriate file in each user folder (or alternately change the default template location). If locally, I do not have a good idea.

when everiting is local , make a "extension" with the macro's to run

Carl · January 25, 2012, 6:13am

The user data is saved on a mapped drive on the server and the user profile is on the local PC as part of the user's windows profile.
Yes all these users are using different flavours of Windows

planas · January 25, 2012, 8:06am

The user data is saved on a mapped drive on the server and the user profile is on the local PC as part of the user's windows profile.
Yes all these users are using different flavours of Windows

Can you push a template out over your network? I am not sure of the exact location of the template folder, but should be similar for all the Windows machines (I use Linux). I would look for LO in the Program folder and navigate to the template folder. You could have a problem with 32 and 64 bit locations.

Tom_Davies · January 25, 2012, 12:20pm

Hi
There is a folder called "templates" in the user-profile
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile
but there seem to be other weird places too and i am not sure which is used and whether any of them are not used. Looking in

Tools - Options - Paths

You can see that the templates path is has a few different alternatives rather than just one but did not seem to include the path to the folder in the user-profile!

Aaaargh!! Is it easy enough to add an extra path?
Regards from
Tom

Carl · February 3, 2012, 12:54pm

As far as I understand I should be able to set the default font and font size in the main.xcd file
The only problem is that Im not sure what the format should be...

I tried the template way. I created a template and copied it to every machine via a script. It does not seem to get used though. I think I need to tell every installation that it should use this file as the default template. How would this be done? Also in the main.xcd file?

Villeroy · February 3, 2012, 1:58pm

Am 03.02.2012 13:46, Carl wrote:

As far as I understand I should be able to set the default font and font
size in the main.xcd file
The only problem is that Im not sure what the format should be...

I tried the template way. I created a template and copied it to every
machine via a script. It does not seem to get used though. I think I
need to tell every installation that it should use this file as the
default template. How would this be done? Also in the main.xcd file?

http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Administration_Guide/Adding_Template_Files

Fernand_Vanrie · February 3, 2012, 2:52pm

Carl ,

With the joined code you can make the wanted "NewWritterTemplate.ott" working

Hope it helps

Fernand

Sub set_new_writerTemplate()
  GlobalScope.BasicLibraries.loadLibrary("myTools")
      sNode = "org.openoffice.Setup/Office/Factories/com.sun.star.text.TextDocument"
      sProperty = "ooSetupFactoryTemplateFile"
      '*****OPGELET***** the file must been in the Template directory ! 'moet in een TEMPLATE-directorie staan, anders werkt het NIET*****
       sValue = "file:///t:/template/tools/New_WriterTemplate.ott"
      setOOoSetupValue(sNode, sProperty, sValue)
  End Sub

  Function setOOoSetupValue(sNodePath$, sProperty$, sValue$) as boolean
  on error goto exitErr
  Dim bReturn as Boolean, xconfig, xAccess
  dim aArgs(0) as Object
   dim aPropValue as new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue
      xconfig = createunoservice("com.sun.star.configuration.ConfigurationProvider")
      aPropValue.Name = "nodepath"
      aPropValue.Value = sNodePath '"org.openoffice.Office.Linguistic"
      aArgs(0) = aPropValue
      xAccess = xconfig.createinstanceWithArguments("com.sun.star.configuration.ConfigurationUpdateAccess",aArgs())
      xAccess.setPropertyValue(sProperty, sValue)
      xAccess.commitchanges
      bReturn = True
  exitErr:
      setOOoSetupValue = bReturn
  End Function
  Function getOOoSetupValue(sNodePath$,sProperty$)
  Dim aConfigProvider, oNode, args(0) As new com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue
      aConfigProvider = createUnoService("com.sun.star.configuration.ConfigurationProvider")
      args(0).Name = "nodepath"
      args(0).Value = sNodePath
      oNode = aConfigProvider.createInstanceWithArguments("com.sun.star.configuration.ConfigurationAccess", args())
  getOOoSetupValue = oNode.getbyname(sProperty)
  End Function