BuiltInDocumentProperties.Author not exported to ODT?

Aspose.Words Product Family
1

If I place an author field in the document I create, and set the document author via BuiltInDocumentProperties.Author, and save as ODT, I find that the DocInformation:Created (Author) field is present in the output document, but I can’t get it to display the author name I supplied in BuiltInDocumentProperties.Author. Could it be that BuiltInDocumentProperties.Author is not translating to ODT?
Below is code that reproduces the problem.

static void doDoc()
{
    Document _toDoc = new Document();
    _toDoc.BuiltInDocumentProperties.Title = "hello";
    _toDoc.BuiltInDocumentProperties.Author = "me";
    _toDoc.BuiltInDocumentProperties.Pages = 1;
    _toDoc.BuiltInDocumentProperties.NameOfApplication = "foo";
    _toDoc.RemoveAllChildren(); // removes default section
    Section _section = new Section(_toDoc);
    _section.ClearHeadersFooters();
    _toDoc.AppendChild(_section);
    Body body = new Body(_toDoc);
    _section.AppendChild(body);
    _section.PageSetup.LeftMargin = 72.0;
    _section.PageSetup.TopMargin = 72.0;
    _section.PageSetup.RightMargin = 72.0;
    _section.PageSetup.BottomMargin = 72.0;
    _section.PageSetup.PageWidth = 612.0;
    _section.PageSetup.PageHeight = 792.0;
    _section.PageSetup.HeaderDistance = 20.0;
    _section.PageSetup.FooterDistance = 20.0;
    addParagraph(_toDoc, body);
    _toDoc.Save("c:\\temp\\test.odt", SaveFormat.Odt);
}
static void addParagraph(Document _toDoc, Body body)
{
    Paragraph asposePara = new Paragraph(_toDoc);
    asposePara.ParagraphFormat.FirstLineIndent = 0.0;
    asposePara.ParagraphFormat.LeftIndent = 0.0;
    asposePara.ParagraphFormat.RightIndent = 0.0;
    TabStop stop = new TabStop(36.0);
    stop.Alignment = TabAlignment.Left;
    asposePara.ParagraphFormat.TabStops.Add(stop);
    asposePara.ParagraphFormat.Alignment = ParagraphAlignment.Left;
    asposePara.ParagraphFormat.LineSpacing = 12.0;
    asposePara.ParagraphFormat.SpaceAfter = 0.0;
    asposePara.ParagraphFormat.SpaceBefore = 0.0;
    body.AppendChild(asposePara);
    Run asposeRun = new Run(_toDoc, "hello");
    asposeRun.Font.Name = "Times New Roman";
    asposeRun.Font.Size = 12.0;
    asposePara.AppendChild(asposeRun);
    DocumentBuilder builder = new DocumentBuilder(_toDoc);
    builder.MoveTo(asposePara);
    string fieldCode = @"SAVEDATE \@ ""MMMM d, yyyy"" \* MERGEFORMAT";
    string fieldValue = DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("MMMM d, yyyy");
    builder.InsertField(fieldCode, fieldValue);
    fieldCode = @"AUTHOR \* MERGEFORMAT";
    fieldValue = "Bartholomew";
    builder.InsertField(fieldCode, fieldValue);
}
2

Hi
Thanks for your inquiry. I see that BuildeInDocumentProperties are not displayed in “Properties/DocumentStatistics”. I created new issue #5552 in our defect database. Is it what you meant? See attached image.
Best regards

3

Hi,
OpenOffice Writer save to ODT without Unicode byte order mark (the first three bytes of XML files - EF BB BF for UTF-8), while Aspose.Words save with it.
The document statistics is not displayed because meta.xml part of ODT package contain Unicode byte order mark.
We will fix it in the next release.

4

I want to clarify that my original issue was that an DocInformation:Created (Author) field in the document didn’t have the actual Author value displayed. Will this fix make that work too?
Thanks,
Steve

5

Hi
Thanks for your inquiry. I tried to insert Author field using menu Insert/Fields/Other/DocInformation/Created/Author and this field displays correct value “me”.
In your code you are inserting this field using the following code:

fieldCode = @"AUTHOR \* MERGEFORMAT";
fieldValue = "Bartholomew";
builder.InsertField(fieldCode, fieldValue);

It seems that OpenOfice updates all fields during opening document. So in the document you see “me” (value inserted into _toDoc.BuiltInDocumentProperties.Author = “me”:wink: instead “Bartholomew”.
Best regards.

6

The behavior I’m seeing when I run the code I gave is that when I open test.odt in OpenOffice Writer 2.4, the fields are present (I can see them both by selecting the View/Field Names menu), but the DocInformation:Created field has no value when I turn off View/Field Names.
Even if I then insert a new field using Insert/Fields/Author, there’s no value showing for that new field.
Just the same, I can see that Document/Properties shows “me” as the author.
See attached files.

7

Hi
Thanks for additional information. I managed to reproduce the issue. But on my side DocInformation:Modified disappears. I use OpenOfice 2.2.1. I will try this using Open Ofice 2.4.1 and provide you more information.
Best regards.

8

Hi
I consulted with responsible developer. It seems that OpenOffice works not correctly with documents with created date is least than 1583. So as a workaround you can check created date and set it if it is least than 1583. Please see the following example:

DateTime time = new DateTime(1583, 1, 1);
if (_toDoc.BuiltInDocumentProperties.CreatedTime < time)
    _toDoc.BuiltInDocumentProperties.CreatedTime = DateTime.Now;
_toDoc.BuiltInDocumentProperties.LastSavedTime = DateTime.Now;

Please let me know if this helps.
Best regards.

9

The issues you have found earlier (filed as 5552) have been fixed in this update.