Extensions

OOo Extensions project

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Categories:

Extensions

Pages:

Extensions on the main site

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Extensions in other languages:
ES - FR - IT - JA - NL - OC - 中

All translated pages may not be up to date - Main language remains English

OpenOffice.org Extensions

OpenOffice.org offers the possibility to develop independent 3rd party extensions. The categories of extensions reach from Basic libraries, packages with Java/JavaScript or Python macros to more sophisticated extensions in form of UNO components implemented in Java, C++ or Python. Even the last category of extensions subdivide in general UNO components providing new implementations for existing functional areas or specialized components like Calc Add-Ins, Add-Ons, DataPilots, Chart Add-Ins or linguistic components (e.g. Spellchecker, Hyphenator or Thesaurus).

The Extensions project provides

Tools, guidelines and starting information to develop new functionality for OpenOffice.org
Repository of existing Extensions: listing and classification
Deployment to end-users

You can join us at

#ooo-ext IRC channel
dev@extensions.openoffice;org mailing list for building the extensions ecosystem

Translating these pages

The Extension project has to be strongly bound to Native-Lang communities to relay any local third party development. So we warmly welcomed people interested in providing translations for the Add-ons and also for the documentation and pages of this site.

The naming convention proposed is to

Create a new page taking the English page and add your language code as suffix (eg. Extensions_repository_fr)
Put a link to this translated page at the top of the English page, with the language code
Be aware that if you start a translation, it would be good to monitor it so that it remains as much in sync as possible

Some extension categories

Calc Add-Ins provide new Calc built in functions which can be directly used over the normal function dialog in the Calc application.
Add-ons describe components providing some new functionality and normally coming with an UI integration (e.g. new menu entries or complete new menues, new toolbars).
DataPilots provide a new kind of data pilot which can be used directly over the DataPilot dialog in the Calc application.
Chart Add-Ins provide a new chart type
Linguistic components provide new implementations of known interfaces which can be used directly over the normal UI.
Starting with OOo 2.0.4 we have support for non-code extensions (e.g. templates, autotexts)