Bug 73451 - Other: how to change code to have quickbooks (which is looking to launch Microsoft Word, have it recognize libreoffice AS MS Word)???
Summary: Other: how to change code to have quickbooks (which is looking to launch Micr...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.1.0.4 release
Hardware: Other Windows (All)
: low enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2014-01-09 21:15 UTC by tony
Modified: 2019-08-31 15:26 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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2014-01-09 21:15 UTC, tony
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Description tony 2014-01-09 21:15:54 UTC
Created attachment 91777 [details]
picture of problem

Problem description: Quickbooks only opens MS Office Program for functions it needs an office suite for.

Steps to reproduce:
1. ....use quickbooks
2. ....try to make a vendor payment
3. ....QB tries to open MS Office only. Since I use LibreOffice, I'm SOL.

Current behavior: cannot find or open liberoffice because it is only looking for MS office.

Expected behavior: Need quickbooks program to think its seeing libreoffice writer as MS word.

Please help:)

Thank you, 

Tony
ingle@annexbaseball.com

              
Operating System: Windows 8
Version: 4.1.0.4 release
Comment 1 bfoman (inactive) 2014-01-09 22:48:09 UTC
Enhancement request.
Additional links:
http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/12556/connect-quickbooks-to-libreoffice-like-microsoft-office/
and search for LibreOffice at https://community.intuit.com

A workaround could be exporting data and importing them into LibreOffice using modified QB Word templates.
Also as a customer please contact support channels of Intuit - the more requests this vendor receives from LO users, the more chances that they consider to support it official way... At least one can try.
Comment 2 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2015-01-06 22:20:56 UTC
(In reply to tony from comment #0)
> Problem description: Quickbooks only opens MS Office Program for functions
> it needs an office suite for.
> ...
> Current behavior: cannot find or open liberoffice because it is only looking
> for MS office.
> 
> Expected behavior: Need quickbooks program to think its seeing libreoffice
> writer as MS word.

I see two approaches to this problem:
1) Appeal to Quickbooks/Intuit to support LibreOffice
2) Try to make LibreOffice *appear* to be MS-Office to Quickbooks

Let's tackle these separately.

1) Appeal to Quickbooks/Intuit to support LibreOffice

As of 4 years ago, one of their forum "Allstars" said that "OpenOffice, StarOffice and LibreOffice are not supported."
https://community.intuit.com/questions/476695-openoffice

Interestingly, LibreOffice is mentioned on Intuit's site as an alternative to MS-Office (2 years ago), so perhaps there's some hope that LibreOffice might be used:
http://quickbooks.intuit.com/r/tech-review/5-free-alternatives-to-microsoft-office/

2) Try to make LibreOffice *appear* to be MS-Office to Quickbooks

I have a few guesses but no real information on how Quickbooks 
1) Determines that a compatible version of MS-Office is installed
2) Launches the program
3) Passes-in data

I think that giving people more choice to be able to use LibreOffice w/Quickbooks would be great, albeit a low priority for any developers who want to figure out how to spoof ourselves as MS-Office, so
Priority -> low
Status -> NEW

If anyone else is interested in integration with Quickbooks, please follow bfoman's advice:

(In reply to bfoman from comment #1)
> Also as a customer please contact support channels of Intuit - the more
> requests this vendor receives from LO users, the more chances that they
> consider to support it official way...

Definitely true.
Comment 3 Barack Obama 2016-07-11 11:45:57 UTC Comment hidden (spam)
Comment 4 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2016-08-18 15:35:12 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 Thomas Lendo 2019-08-28 21:23:38 UTC
Is such bug a NOTOURBUG, isn't it? This Bugzilla is for issues that can be resolved in the LibreOffice source code or in help, wiki, etc. But other programs have their own Bugzilla or similar databases, so this is not the right place.
Comment 6 Buovjaga 2019-08-29 06:47:12 UTC
Yeah let's close
Comment 7 Aron Budea 2019-08-29 13:36:15 UTC
I replied to Thomas on IRC last night. QuickBooks is proprietary software, and them supporting or not supporting LO is a business decision (as opposed to it clearly being a bug). Thus if they decide against it, users don't have an option, while LO is free and open source, and can (theoretically) be enhanced to react to apps that are trying to call MS Office.

There are plenty of applications out there that are only prepared to interact with an installed MSO for basic office functionality, and won't ever support LO, therefore enhancements like this would have real benefit to users.
Comment 8 Buovjaga 2019-08-29 13:43:08 UTC
Ok, let's open
Comment 9 Mike Kaganski 2019-08-31 12:45:55 UTC
Making it blocker of bug 113117 seems strange - how is that related to installer? It needs implementation of MS Office-compatible automation interfaces, not installer ... (at least until there's enough support to warrant an option in the installer that would "register LibreOffice instead MS Office to cheat applications to use it instead").
Comment 10 Thomas Lendo 2019-08-31 13:03:34 UTC
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #9)
Right, I'll remove the blocker. Seemed the next best meta bug that exists to me and in older days the file association was made with the installer wizard.