Category:Draft marketing ideas and materials

Draft marketing documents index

Note - this list is based on the full list in Feature_Freeze_Testing_2.4 Full list is available below.

General

Localisation

Base / DBA

Calc

Chart

Draw

Impress

Writer

Extensions/ programmability / API

See list of regressions found in OpenOffice.org version 2.4.0.

Feature Description Specs/Issue

Extensible Help System for extensions Now help content inside extensions is supported. Extension help content is provided together with the OpenOffice.org installed help content. It's also possible to extend the help index. The implementation supports extended tool tips and accessing extension help content by pressing F1 in UNO dialogs and menus. 20164 Spec

Extensions can have a separate display name An extension may have a display name, shown in the Tools>Extensions Manager dialog. It can be localized. If no display name is provided then the file name of Extension will be displayed. 81326 Spec

Extensions: support of web based update The Extension Manager online update feature now also supports web-based updates. The Update Extensions dialog shows available updates which one can only obtain through a particular website and which the Extension Manager cannot automatically download. When the user installs the updates, web browser will be started which navigate to the websites where the user can manually download the update. Article 82775 Spec

Extensions: additional information about the publisher and release notes It is now possible to see additional information for an available update of an extension in the Update Extensions dialog (Extension Manager dialog -> button Updates). This is first the name of the publisher and second a link to the release notes. Also the publisher name is a link. Clicking on these links will open an browser and navigate to the respective web sites. Article 81502 Spec

Extensions: check for updates When the office is configured to check for office updates automatically, the office will look for updates for the installed extensions, too. When any updates are found, the user will be notified via the menu bar about these updates. 82851 Spec

Dialogs can have a wallpaper set A new property for dialogs and tab pages is added, for an image URL which is used to display as a background image. 83238 Spec

Transparent background for controls A transparent for background of controls, e.g. for Labels, is now a property that can be set over the toollkit. 83237

Remote control presentations via API API added for remote control of presentations, e.g. to advance to next slide and go back to previous slide, from an other application. 15900

API: get selected table(s) or query(s) in the main Base window The ability is added (by supporting of com.sun.star.view.XSelectionSupplier interface) to find which table(s) or query(s) are currently selected in the main Base window. 69740