Bug 135987

Summary: FILEOPEN XLSX: Check box loses "Linked Cell" property after round-trip (comment 6)
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Serge Krot (CIB) <serge.krot>
Component: CalcAssignee: Justin L <jluth>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: aron.budea, emailprohlasenichyb, himajin100000, jluth, libreoffice, miguelangelrv, private, thb
Priority: medium    
Version: Inherited From OOo   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=106181
Whiteboard: target:7.6.0
Crash report or crash signature: Regression By:
Bug Depends on: 106181    
Bug Blocks: 108897, 133999    
Attachments: Original document created in MS Excel
XLSX resaved with LO

Description Serge Krot (CIB) 2020-08-21 11:06:39 UTC
Created attachment 164531 [details]
Original document created in MS Excel

Original XLSX (created in MS Excel):
- the checkbox is visible in LO
- the checkbox is visible in MS Excel

After resaving the original XLSX into XLSX
- the checkbox is not visible in LO
- the checkbox is visible in MS Excel
Comment 1 Serge Krot (CIB) 2020-08-21 11:07:14 UTC
Created attachment 164532 [details]
XLSX resaved with LO
Comment 2 Thorsten Behrens (allotropia) 2020-08-21 11:46:52 UTC
Confirmed, never worked for LibreOffice.
Comment 3 NISZ LibreOffice Team 2020-10-06 11:40:18 UTC
*** Bug 135436 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 Silicomancer 2021-01-09 11:28:03 UTC
Same here in Kubuntu 20.04, LO 7.1.0.1. Nasty.
Comment 5 m_a_riosv 2021-05-11 07:40:33 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 113610 ***
Comment 6 Justin L 2023-01-21 19:02:22 UTC
Although the checkbox is now retained on save (thanks to bug 117266), the control is no longer linked to the A1 cell on import.

[It works in Excel 2010 - although the control is duplicated, so export is somewhat OK.]
Comment 7 Commit Notification 2023-01-24 02:14:56 UTC
Justin Luth committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/7f23dae00fedc9d7119b44b6c44d9eca4f8c87b8

tdf#135987 xlsx vml export: retain checkbox link to cell

It will be available in 7.6.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.