Bug 48436

Summary:	Data Label Placement needs absolute coordinates
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	jonnjones
Component:	Chart	Assignee:	Balázs Varga <varga.balazs3>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	bfo.bugmail, jmadero.dev, kiv, varga.balazs3
Priority:	medium
Version:	3.5.2 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42448 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136430
Whiteboard:	target:6.5.0
Crash report or crash signature:		Regression By:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	108542

Description jonnjones 2012-04-08 07:53:10 UTC

When enabling data labels on a chart, the labels may overlap into the chart image area, making the labels difficult to read. It's particularly problematic when making a pie chart with a 3D Realistic Look, and using percents as labels.

It would be better for the data labels to be freely placed, like text boxes with position and size x and y coordinates, instead. Really all elements should be freely customizable like text boxes, in terms of placement, size, and content. It may interfere and cause problems otherwise. The individual elements can still be moved as a group when moving a chart.

Comment 1 Joel Madero 2013-06-10 17:26:43 UTC

Thank you for reporting this enhancement request! I can confirm that this is a valid enhancement request on:
Version: 4.2.0.0.alpha0+Build ID: b0a1666f756aa5f5315366eca9d7d02ddd55d2b
Date:   Tue May 28 08:51:01 2013 +0300 
Platform: Bodhi Linux 2.2 x64
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As I've been able to confirm the enhancement request I am marking as:

New (confirmed)
Enhancement
High - seems like a common thing to want to do, anyone labeling a chart could want to freely move them around for best placement.

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Comment 2 Xisco Faulí 2019-11-29 13:28:33 UTC

Changing priority back to 'medium' since the number of duplicates is lower than 5

Comment 3 Balázs Varga 2020-01-29 12:40:00 UTC

*** Bug 72809 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Commit Notification 2020-01-30 09:45:05 UTC

Balazs Varga committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/commit/4223ff2be69f03e571464b0b09ad0d278918631b

tdf#48436 Chart: add CustomLabelPosition UNO API property

It will be available in 6.5.0.

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.