The fact that you wrote this illustrates how poorly you understand what this “ask a How-do-I question” site is for.
Why do you spam this with some garbage that a chatbot generates? Do you think that its ability to parse sources like this and other similar discussions change anything? Have you started to crowd-fund your wanted feature yet? Note that your last post is just a spam, increasing the overall amount of garbage in the net, and making it more difficult for people to see the essence of the discussion. The chatbot gave wrong advises, and only added to the confusion.
Time to consider such posts as inappropriate (adding the relevant note to the rules, indeed)?
The feature you refer to is not implemented in LO for any version of ODF (or other files), including ODF 1.0/1.1.
Specifically, the article at AOO Bugzilla you pointed to, talks about ability to navigate through documents in Explorer preview pane, as opposed to viewing thumbnail preview of first page saved inside the document.
LibreOffice does include a component named Windows Explorer Extension that allows the thumbnails preview. However, this have never had ability to navigate through documents. Also, it shows thumbnails correctly for ODF 1.2.
Also, there is a component named ActiveX control. Its purpose is to enable embedding of LO into other applications’ frames (specifically, IE). In theory, it could be extended to work with Explorer, but actually it is deprecated and will be removed in a future version of LO. As the decision is to remove the functionality of embedding into other applications, I doubt that the feature you ask for is going to happen (unless someone new decides to take development and maintenance, because there’s no incentive among existing members of development community).
Hello Mike,
firstly I do not mean thumbnail-preview of first page but the file-preview-function in (File-)Explorer Preview Pane, which has - if it works - the capability of navigating through the whole document-text of a previewable file. And this preview and navigation works for ODT-file with ODF1,0/1.1-Version, but not any more with ODF-1.2-formatted files/documents. You can control the also with LO given capability of preview and navigation by storing ODT-files with LO in the 1.0/1.1-format.
And secondly do I not speak about Internet Explorer or any web-brower-extension or web-browser function, but only of the Preview Pane of regular Windows (File-) Explorer, so of Preview Pane as part of the regular Windows OS, which is part of it at least since Windows NT, if I remember correctly, so the described lack of previeability and “navigability” of ODF-1.2-files exists for all Windows OS-Versions, while all ODF-1.0/1.1-files will be previewable and navigatable in Preview Pane of WExplorer
That means that I do speak of exactly the same lack of functionality as discussed in the linked AOO-bugzilla-item. LO and AOO do here have or produce the identical problem with ODF-1.2-files (but no problem with ODF-1.0/1.1-files) for Windows (OS) Explorer Preview Pane.
@Ballroom: yes, and I expressed in my answer that I understand your issue. But I told you that there was never such functionality in LibreOffice/OpenOffice; and most probably won’t be for foreseeable future for reasons described above.
The ability to preview ODF1.0/1.1 comes from installed MS Office, which is able to open these files since version 2007 SP1, and provides the preview in Windows Explorer. If you deinstall MS Office, the preview will also go.
@mikekaganski: Hello Mike, both of Your statements are not correct unfortunately: First is Windows Preview Pane capable to give a preview and navigation for ODF/ODT 1.0/1.1-files WITHOUT any MS Office installed, as I can assure You, cause I hadn´t it installed, whwn preview even under Win10 worked for my older odt-files, which were created with older AOO-versions until 2012 (in ODF-1.0/1.1-format) and secondly therefore at least Open Office had this functionality with WExpl.
As every ODT/ODF-1.0/1.1-file can be previewed and navigated through by Windows (File) Explorer Preview Pane, it depends upon the startdate of first Libre Office Version or more exactly, upon if the first LO-version formatted Open Docs in ODF-1.0/1.1-format, if Libre Office once also had that functionality. I think Libre Office- and AOO-communtity should solve that issue without forcing users to install newest MS Office or forcing them not to use Windows. I guess its just a small code-bug.
I have to correct one of my sentences above (in my first comment today): I used “Open Office” until 2012, if also I already (can have) used “Apache” Open Office before the end of 2012, I am not sure.
As you seem to fail reading the topics that you mention yourself in your question (i#107602), saying that in 2009, as well till 2016 (i.e., latest version), OOo and AOO haven’t had the function, I cannot help but tell you that my knowledge as LO developer isn’t sufficient to know what’s known to you. I can only hope that this link may help you to identify SW that previews on your system without MSO.
Hello Mike, thanks for Your link (with Your suggestion to use another program than windows explorer, namely opus directory, I guess? ). In my system MS Office doesn´t need to be installed to have preview pane working for ODF-1.0/1.1-format. I had - before upgrading to win 10 - a Win7-system with Office 365 2013 and then 2016, whereas Office 365 is terminated meanwhile. In fact I installed MS Office 2007 in March 2017 only for the purpose to get WinExplorer preview of my numerous ODT 1.2 -for-
matted files, which came into existence since about End of 2012. But that did not help. Before and after having installed MS Office 2007, I could and can preview and navigate through ODT Documents in ODF-1.0/1.1 format (but not in 1.2-format). See also [Issue] OpenOffice 3.4 files and Windows 7 preview pane (View topic) • Apache OpenOffice Community Forum . As I understand the discussion at AOO-bugzilla 107602 – framework: Implement ODF document preview for Windows Explorer , especially at the end (comments 16 and 17), there may be a bug in
… ODF-1.2 code relating to the code-created manifest.xml-files under ODF 1.2-format?
PS: Before I installed MS Office 2007 in March 2017, my MS Office 365 2013/2016 had been terminated about one year ago. Directly before installing MS Office 2007 my Windows Explorer Preview Pane had already full function for ODF 1.0/1.1-formatted (means: old) ODT-files, but not ODT 1.2-files.
https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=66923
To read the i#107602 correctly, you should first read its title and initial description: they say “Implement ODF document preview for Windows Explorer”, “The current explorer extensions … do not support the preview of ODF documents within the Windows Explorer preview window”. That’s from 2009, and say about 3.1 (see OpenOffice.org - Wikipedia).
Then, comments 1 and 2 confirm it, and comment 3 says that v.3.2 doesn’t have it also. Comment 5 (from a user) says about existing preview, but comment 6 clarifies that it only has preview if MSO is installed. Comment 10 (form 2016) confirm the absence of the preview, and note that it’s OOo/AOO Bugzilla, and not LO, so no ODF 1.2 there.Comment 11 further clarifies that this is with Win10!
In comment 13, orcmid (one of project leads) misunderstands the problem, saying about thumbnail preview that works since 3.2, but comment 14 clarifies things for him (which he accepts in comment 15), but he says that there’s no possibility to add this yet not existing feature. Comment 14 says also, that 2 computers without MSO only shows thumbnail preview!
In he meanwhile, comment 12 offers a file to “fix” the preview of ODF 1.2 (which confuses orcmid). Later, in comment 16, this is explained that the problem is that MSO 2007-2010 preview is unable to show such files, and that it’s because MSO preview stops as soon as it sees “1.2” in the manifest. So, the “fix” to allow old MSO preview to show such files is to put 1.1 into the ODF files, so it is not a OOo/AOO/LO preview!
Sorry to have to teach you reading.
If you have a working preview “before installing MSO 2007”, then that must be some other software (not OOo/AOO/LO) that offers that preview. OOo/AOO/LO don’t and didn’t provide this functionality. Never. Ever. This is all that to be said about that. No code inside that makes that happen. If you see something different, then you have another SW that makes that, so again: NOT OOo/AOO/LO.