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Hello! Is it possible to run OpenOffice Calc in headless mode and run autofit command (.uno:SetOptimalRowHeight) for all cells on worksheet via command line ?

acetonic wrote: ↑Tue Mar 28, 2023 5:36 pm Is it possible to run OpenOffice Calc in headless mode and run autofit command (.uno:SetOptimalRowHeight) for all cells on worksheet via command line ?

You can record a macro to perform:
• Select → All
• Format → Row → Optional Height → OK
• File → Save

If the macro is called Foo in module Tests in library Standard of My Macros you can execute the macro with:

YourPath/soffice --headless --nofirststartwizard --norestore "YourFile.ods" "macro:///Standard.Tests.Foo()"

But it's not possible to record File → Close so the file stays open after it's saved and the soffice command never finishes. If you understand how to write macros (programming) perhaps you could edit the recorded macro and add commands to close the file. From what I recall, having the macro terminate OpenOffice may be difficult since it's OpenOffice that's running the macro. I can't help further with closing the file or with terminating OpenOffice except to suggest that if you wait a sufficient amount of time the file will have been saved and you can just kill the OpenOffice process. For many files you can use a loop:

For each file do
   Run Macro
   Wait a while
   Kill process
Done

You can probably find more additional information about steps for closing and/or terminating in Andrew Pitonyak's OpenOffice Macro Information.

So, if you haven't UI on server, how can you write macros there ?

acetonic wrote: ↑Thu Apr 13, 2023 9:21 am So, if you haven't UI on server, how can you write macros there ?

Record (or write) and test macros on a system which does have a UI and transfer them to the server which doesn't. Macros in My Macros are stored in user profile folder 4 → user → basic. You must also transfer the files ending in xlb (Library Basic) and xlc (Library Container).

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