Name of author is saved in global options

[xephon]

Hi,

when I enter my name in the options, I only have the choice to save it either in the global or in the project options. Both don't make sense, because my name is neither related to the global or project options. When a colleague imports the global options to his Oxygen instance, he has to change the authoer name (every time).

Best regards,
Stefan

[Radu]

Hi Stefan,

It depends on the use case, some people export options so they can import them on another computer on which they also work with Oxygen. So for them it's OK if the change tracking author name is also exported.
The exported options XML and the XPR file have XML content so you can open them, search for an entry like:

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                    <entry>

                        <String>change.tracking.author</String>

                        <String>Stefan's Author Name</String>

                    </entry>

and remove it before giving it to your colleagues.

Regards,
Radu

[xephon]

Hi Radu,

thanks for the clarification. So it is a terminology issue, because the GlobalOptions are actually PersonalOptions.

Thanks and best regards,
Stefan

[Radu]

Hi Stefan,

Possibly when you export global options Oxygen could ask you if you want to remove user-dependent settings and then it could automatically create that options XML without certain keys which have meaning only for the current user saved to it.
So I'll add an issue for this. In the meantime you can modify the XML yourself or add some XSLT processing to it to remove certain keys.

Regards,
Radu

[Radu]

Hi,

Just to update this post, certain export keys which were not relevant for other users are no longer exported when using Oxygen 17.

Regards,
Radu