Recent Documents At Load
Update “Recent Documents” upon opening
| Specification Status | |
| Author | Irenie White |
| Last Change | |
| Status (Help) | Preliminary |
Abstract
Add existing documents to Recent Documents list on open rather than close, and add new documents as soon as they are saved.
Contents
References
| Reference Document | Check | Location (URL) |
| Prerequisites | passed | n/a |
| Product Requirement, RFE, Issue ID (required) | available | i51154 |
| Test case specification (required) | [available/not available] | <PLEASE ENTER LOCATION HERE> |
| IDL Specification | not available | -- |
| Software Specification Rules | n/a | n/a |
Contacts
| Role | Name | E-Mail Address |
| Developer | Chris Halls | chris.halls@credativ.co.uk |
| Quality Assurance | Daniel Watkins | daniel.watkins@credativ.co.uk |
| Documentation | Irenie White | irenie.white@credativ.co.uk |
| User Experience | Irenie White | irenie.white@credativ.co.uk |
Detailed Specification
OpenOffice.org currently saves recent document history only upon exiting the application. This results in documents missing from the Recent Documents list in the event of the application not being closed properly.
This will be avoided by adding the filename to the Recent Documents list in the File menu upon opening an existing document or upon the first instance of saving a new document.
Competitive Analysis
AbiWord 2.4.6
AbiWord 2.4.6 adds filename to the list of most recent douments in the file menu when opened.
Microsoft Office Word 2003
Microsoft Office Word 2003 adds filename to the list of most recent documents in the file menu when opened.
Testcase Specification
There is a test case for Recent Documents, 'tFileRecentDocuments' at line 283 of /testautomation/spreadsheet/required/includes/c_upd_filemenu.inc.
This test case opens a spreadsheet document with a specific value in cell A1, closes the document, opens the first entry in the Recent Documents menu and checks if the value in cell A1 matches the expected value. In addition to this, it opens another document beforehand, to allow it to test for the recent document being opened in the background.
This check will have to change in two ways. Firstly, to test our actual changes, the close of the document will be removed. This will allow us to ensure that the Recent Document list no longer depends on the document close. However, in order to ensure that we have the newly opened document, and not the previously opened copy of it, we will have to change the contents of it before we attempt the load. So the 'close' step will become a 'add something to cell A2' step. We will also save another document and load it via the Recent Documents menu, to allow us to test that aspect of the patch.
Migration
Migration is irrelevant, the Recent Documents list format remains the same.
Configuration
Configuration is irrelevant, there are no configuration changes.
File Format
File format is irrelevant, there are no file format changes.
