On Sat, 7 May 2016 08:11:49 -0700 "Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamil...@acm.org> wrote:
> In the ODF 1.2 Specification, an annotation can be set to visible or not but > there is no provision for a condition on the annotation being visible or not. > Technically, some or all of the text in the comment could be conditionally > hidden, since it can be any paragraph or run of text content. > > One limitation of the ODF 1.2 specification where it allows conditional > hiding is that there is no description for how the "Boolean formula" in such > a condition is specified. That is, in the ODF 1.2 specification, we only > know that it is a string. > > So there are three problems: > > 1. Learning whether the hidden text control works in the content of an > annotation. > > 2. Learning what the form of the condition is if it is supported, because it > will be OpenOffice implementation-specific. > > 3. Learning how to determine the user name of someone viewing a document, > not even editing the document, and specifying it in whatever the notation for > (2) is. > > I suspect there is no provision for (3) even if (1-2) can be figured out. It > would also be problematic because it will be operating-system and ODF > implementation-dependent. For example, a way to see all of the comments > would be to open the document in Microsoft Office. If it preserves the > annotation, it is unlikely to honor (2-3) and not hide anything. > > Personally, I'm not keen on increasing ways of burying covert content into > ODF documents. The threat surface is bad enough already, especially with AOO > allowing digital signing of documents that have hidden content the signer may > be ignorant of. > > - Dennis Thank, Dennis. Another viewpoint is always useful. I have discovered that one can show or hide all comments; had there been a readily accessible selective show/hide for comments, based on some definable criteria - in my case, a pseudo-author (= an author's editing category), this would have been convenient, but I can do without it. I am now implementing a "move to next/previous comment of a category" section in my code, which may then be ready for public release. Rory > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Rory O'Farrell [mailto:ofarr...@iol.ie] > > Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2016 08:23 > > To: dev@openoffice.apache.org > > Subject: Another Comments question. > > > > Is there any way to hide OO Writer Comments from one specific User? My > > initial researches suggest that it is an all-or-nothing situation, but > > in case I have missed something, I ask the question. > > > > -- > > Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
