Hagar Delest wrote: ↑Sun Dec 24, 2023 11:42 am
I always struggle to evaluate in which section a simple topic should be moved to.
I have some trouble with this too but have tried to put topics in:
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Macros and UNO API when the focus of the question is the API
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OpenOffice Basic, Python, BeanShell, JavaScript when the focus is using one of the languages
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External Programs when the focus is calling OpenOffice from the outside
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UNO API and ODF when the focus is Open Document Format generally
The bigger question is:
What do we really want and how can we achieve it?
Some of these forums have many topics:
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Macros and UNO API about 5600
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OpenOffice Basic, Python, BeanShell, JavaScript about 1500
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External Programs about 600
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UNO API and ODF about 300
Edit: Oops: Looks as if the first two of these were just merged. I will continue with my post anyway. |
I will suggest this arrangement (some of the titles are altered a bit):
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Programming Programming with OpenOffice and LibreOffice
(users cannot create topics here)
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Macros in Basic, Python, BeanShell, JavaScript Perform tasks with a macro
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UNO API Use the API to work with documents
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External Programs Call OpenOffice externally
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Old topics Temporary for pre-2014 topics
(users cannot create topics or post here)
For users, there are only three sub-forums to choose from when creating a topic.
How do topics get there?
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Macros and UNO API Everything moved out, as explained below
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Macros in Basic, Python, BeanShell, JavaScript Existing
OpenOffice Basic, Python, BeanShell, JavaScript topics
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UNO API Post-2013 topics from
Macros and UNO API or from
UNO API and ODF
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External Programs Existing
External Programs topics
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Old topics Pre-2014 topics from
Macros and UNO API or from
UNO API and ODF
The last category is to help us perform the reorganization and may eventually go away. There is certainly value in these topics, but most of the pre-2014 topics will be for OpenOffice.org before we had Apache OpenOffice or LibreOffice, thus the topic may no longer be relevant to those suites. I would help by moving, as time permits, topics from it to the first three sub-forums. This might take me a year or so, depending on how many others help with the process.
I realize there can be a lot of overlap between writing a macro and using the API. We can combine those sub-forums, but we risk making the merged pool of topics more difficult to use for our users.
Being unfamiliar with
Administrator capabilities I don't know how feasible it is to split out the old topics, but I think that would help us achieve the desired final goal state.
Mr. Programmer
AOO 4.1.7 Build 9800, MacOS 13.6.3, iMac Intel. The locale for any menus or Calc formulas in my posts is English (USA).