Bug 100197 - Scenario Hyperlinks do not work.
Summary: Scenario Hyperlinks do not work.
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
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Blocks: Scenarios Hyperlink-Calc
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Reported: 2016-06-02 18:51 UTC by mrelwood
Modified: 2023-12-29 15:36 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Guide how to reproduce the bug is also in the .ods file itself. (13.45 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
2016-06-02 18:51 UTC, mrelwood
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Description mrelwood 2016-06-02 18:51:38 UTC
Created attachment 125461 [details]
Guide how to reproduce the bug is also in the .ods file itself.

Hyperlinks to Scenarios in the same worksheet doesn't work in LO Calc 5.1.3.2.

Create a Scenario, and make a clickable Hyperlink for the Scenario in the same document. The Scenario can be recalled from the Navigator, but the links in the document itself will not work, wether they are created by dragging from the Navigator, or by Cmd K (ctrl K in windows).

In the sample document I created a Scenario with empty yellow cells. To reproduce the issue:

1. Type anything in any yellow cell(s).
2. Cmd click (ctrl click in windows) the hyperlink "Clear_Yellows".
 - Nothing happens.
 - This should have loaded the Scenario in which the yellow cells are empty.
3. Open the Navigator (F5) and click the "Scenarios" button.
4. Double-click the Scenario "Clear_Yellows".
 - The Scenario is now loaded and the yellow cells are cleared.


This bug causes data loss in two situations:

DATA LOSS 1 (permanent): If I enter data in the yellow fields, save the document as .xslx and reopen, the data that was entered is lost. I guess the empty Scenario was force-loaded overwriting the data that was in the cells when saving.

DATA LOSS 2 (possible): If I save the Spreadsheet as .xls and reopen, clicking on the link creates a new Sheet with the Scenario data. The Navigator still shows the Scenario available for the original sheet, but if the second sheet is deleted, the Scenario for the first sheet is deleted as well.

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Using a MacBook Pro 15" 2010 running OSX 10.11.5.
Reproduced the bug in LO 5.1.1.3, 5.1.3.2 and LODev May-7-2016:
master-2016-05-07_00.24.03_LibreOfficeDev_5.2.0.0.alpha1_MacOS_x86-64

NOTE: The latest snapshot build is slightly different:
(master-2016-06-01_00.32.05_LibreOfficeDev_5.3.0.0.alpha0_MacOS_x86-64)
- A Hyperlink created in the new LODev by dragging from Navigator opens the document at the SAVED state in a new window, unless I save the document first. Then it does nothing. This seems to happen with .odt and .xlsx, but not .xls.
Comment 1 Theodore Matula Jr. 2016-06-02 22:58:26 UTC
I can confirm the existence of this bug on Windows 10 in version 5.2.0.0alpha1+. It seems that Hyperlinks to scenarios do not do anything, but scenarios loaded through the navigator (F5) work as intended. In addition, I can also confirm that if a sheet with a scenario in it is saved as a .xslx file, then any non-scenario text written on a scenario will be overwritten with the scenario text.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open a new Calc Sheet
2. Highlight Cells A1-A5 and click Tools->Scenarios
3. Name the Scenario and set the display border to whatever you want, then click OK
4. Click cell B1, then press the hyperlink button (CTRL+K)
5. Click the Document button on the left, then click the button next to "Target in Document"
6. Expand "Sheets", select your scenario, then click Apply. 
7. Under Text, Name the Hyperlink and press OK
8. Type words in cells A1-A5
9. CTRL-Click the Hyperlink

Expected result:
The Hyperlink will reset the selected cells to their status in the saved scenario

Actual result:
The hyperlink does not do anything. the sheet is unchanged

Version: 5.2.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: cc1a0ba927ad6f85103059aa8e6108017f436304
CPU Threads: 8; OS Version: Windows 6.2; UI Render: default; 
TinderBox: Win-x86@62-merge-TDF, Branch:MASTER, Time: 2016-05-17_02:31:19
Locale: en-US (en_US)
Comment 2 eisa01 2018-03-17 10:22:48 UTC
Still present, setting OS to all as it was confirmed on Windows in comment #2

Also present in 3.3, so inherited from OOo

Version: 6.0.0.0.alpha1+
Build ID: 15dce20e8b97dbd0179f01910ca4d0027e80ff4e
CPU threads: 2; OS: Mac OS X 10.12.6; UI render: default; 
TinderBox: MacOSX-x86_64@49-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2017-10-20_06:46:46
Locale: en-US (en_US.UTF-8); Calc: group
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2019-10-28 03:28:55 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 eisa01 2019-11-02 15:55:16 UTC
This is still present

Version: 6.3.0.4 (x64)
Build ID: 057fc023c990d676a43019934386b85b21a9ee99
CPU threads: 2; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: default; VCL: win; 
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 5 QA Administrators 2021-11-02 04:10:04 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2023-11-03 03:15:16 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 eisa01 2023-12-29 15:36:37 UTC
I don't think this is a bug

What you have added hyperlinks for is some hidden sheets that LO stores the scenario data in? You can see that by the fact the hyperlink is identical to sheet references, and if you unhide the sheets the links work by switching to the relevant sheet

I also checked Excel, and there's no way to do what you wish for out of the box. People use VBA code to activate different scenarios: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/call-a-scenario-from-a-dropdown-list-or-a-botton/5ce769ae-934f-40f4-bc17-464606a73d2f

I don't use scenarios, so someone more knowledgeable should likely close this as "Not a bug"