Bug 104940 - Formulaic Charts for Making Multiple Graphs Easy to Make.
Summary: Formulaic Charts for Making Multiple Graphs Easy to Make.
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
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Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Keywords: needsDevAdvice
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Reported: 2016-12-27 12:12 UTC by samtcrowley
Modified: 2018-07-31 09:42 UTC (History)
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Description samtcrowley 2016-12-27 12:12:17 UTC
Description:
I collect a lot of data from experiments that I need to plot. I can format the same data in the same way every time, but I always end up needing to manually change the data ranges on each plot, which gets tedious when I have dozens of experiments.

What I would like to see is a way to make a plot assign all its data ranges relative to an "Anchor Cell". You would set up the plot by selecting all the data ranges as normal, (the name, X values, Y Values, etc) but you'd also assign an Anchor Cell. So when you have multiple instances of data laid out in the same format, you could copy the plot, change the Anchor, and the new copy would update will all the new data.

The idea could be extended so that plots with multiple data series could be simplified. Say I have two similar sets of data which need their own plots, but one set will have more data series. Rather than manually set the name, X, and Y values for the extra data series, if every series had an anchor cell, we could add a new series, and adjust its anchor cell to match the extra data.

Failing this, I would at least like the ability to enter data ranges as formula instead of picking cells from the spreadsheet every time. It could do a lot of stuff in conjunction with ADDRESS and INDIRECT. Failing this, it would save me some time if I tell the scatter plot that all data series will use the same X values so I don't have to enter the X range for every series.

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Comment 1 Xisco Faulí 2017-12-14 09:13:54 UTC
Thank you for reporting the bug.
Unfortunately without clear steps to reproduce it, we cannot track down the origin of the problem.
Please provide a clearer set of step-by-step instructions on how to reproduce the problem.
I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to 'UNCONFIRMED' once the steps are provided
Comment 2 QA Administrators 2018-07-03 14:15:48 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2018-07-31 09:42:45 UTC
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