https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167240
Bug ID: 167240
Summary: Support multiple author identities
Product: LibreOffice
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Sometimes, the same person writes documents under different identities.
The most common case, perhaps, is your "work identity" and "out-of-work
identity": At work, you may add some professional title to your name which you
don't use for personal authorship; you may use a different physical and email
address etc.
Sometimes, the identity change is even in the name itself. For example, a
person writing a letter for their spouse or friend, but not logged in to the
spouse's account on that computer.
Another use case, more relevant in the context of change tracking, is
identifying yourself functionally for the purposes of marking changes: Several
people are collaborating on a document, say some report, and one of them has an
editorial capacity; they may want to mark their tracked changes as editor
notes, as opposed to named contributors otherwise (and they themselves might be
a contributor, so they would need to separate identities for the same
document).
While it is possible to just overwrite your single identity in LO, that is not
the right way to go; and it certainly does not allow dynamically switching
between author identities in the same document.
So, I propose support for multiple identities be introduced. I don't suggest
that users be exposed to it by default, i.e. it should be something one can
access via Tools > Options; and perhaps other bits of default-off UI, like
drop-down listbox for one of the toolbars which switches the identity.
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