Bug 113307 - Conditional formatting: false cell number format displayed that's defined by a cell style
Summary: Conditional formatting: false cell number format displayed that's defined by ...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.2.8.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium minor
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Conditional-Formatting Number-Format
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Reported: 2017-10-20 18:55 UTC by ask4support
Modified: 2023-01-16 07:56 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Attachments
A sample file. (28.07 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
2017-10-20 18:56 UTC, ask4support
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Description ask4support 2017-10-20 18:55:23 UTC
Description:
When pasting any of the decimal numbers in the attachment to Writer as "Formatted text [RTF]", "HTML (HyperText Markup Language)", "DDE link" or "Unformatted text", the formatting isn't preserved. 

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In the attachment, select any cell containing a decimal number. 
2. Copy the selected cell to clipboard. 
3. Open Writer. 
4. Press Ctr + Shift + V (or Edit → Paste special...). 
5. Select "Formatted text [RTF]", "HTML (HyperText Markup Language)", "DDE link" or "Unformatted text"
6. Compare the pasted number with the original. 

Actual Results:  
Only rounded (whole) number is pasted. 

Expected Results:
The original decimal number should be pasted. 


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: Yes

Additional Info:
The same thing occurs when accidentally cutting/changing any of the numbers and then pressing Ctrl + Z. 

The numbers have conditional formatting applied. 

The bug is present in a recent version of LibreOffice as well. 


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.115 Safari/537.36
Comment 1 ask4support 2017-10-20 18:56:12 UTC
Created attachment 137166 [details]
A sample file.
Comment 2 m_a_riosv 2017-10-23 15:02:32 UTC
The issue comes with the cell format, the paste is done following the cell style format not the direct cell format.

Cell has the style 'Whole numbers' modified with a direct format, 'Whole numbers' has no decimal places, how the copy is done.
Applying the 'Decimal numbers' style to cell and then copying works fine.
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2018-10-24 02:55:44 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 Thomas Lendo 2018-10-24 07:55:17 UTC
According to comment 3, this is no copy/clipboard/paste issue. The issue here is that the cell has a style ('Whole numbers') with style number option 'Decimal places' with '0'. But when opening the file, in cell D2 the number HAS decimal places. If applying another style and re-applying 'Whole numbers' style, the decimal places are correctly displayed.

Seems to be a problem of conditional formatting as there it decides if cell has a number format with or without decimal numbers.


Changing summary from '"Paste special..." from Calc to Writer doesn't preserve formatting' to 'Conditional formatting: false cell number format displayed that's defined by a cell style'.

Anyway, still reproducible.

Version: 6.2.0.0.alpha1+ (x64)
Build ID: ae9f37ba753519ae4a2ae6384d052d417359602f
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0; UI render: GL; VCL: win; 
TinderBox: Win-x86_64@42, Branch:master, Time: 2018-10-23_02:03:22
Locale: de-AT (de_AT); Calc: CL
Comment 5 Timur 2019-01-15 12:59:07 UTC
I'm still not sure what is the exact bug here. We need to better explain it.

1. C2:D2 have CF: 
- if cell value is INT(C2), apply style Whole numbers (it doesn't)
- if cell value is not INT(C2), apply style Decimal numbers (which it does for C2 and D2, can be seen if Decimal numbers is red).

2. C2 cell value is 90,9 but instead of seing Decimal numbers (from CF) I guess we see applied direct formatting that overrides style formatting (see Bug 93300) and that is Number with 0 decimal places. 

3. What I don't understand is why D2 on fileopen shows Decimal numbers although it has the same direct formatting as C2. Is it related to Bug 114860 or there's some "perfectly logical explanation".
 
4. D2 has value of "4.90649064906491" and cached cell content of "5". Why does it show 4,906 on fileopen? Why does it change to 5 on recalc or some change? 
I guess there's the answer to the original bug report that 5 is pasted (similat to what Thomas noted). 
Since recalc changes view, I'll set to minor. 

Different with OO 3.3 (90,9 and 5), LO 4.0 and  LO 4.2 (90,9 and 4,906). Repro 6.0 and 6.3+ (91 and 4,906).
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2021-01-15 04:23:53 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2023-01-16 03:21:32 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 ady 2023-01-16 07:56:58 UTC
For the copying purposes, the only format that is being considered is the main format for the cell. IOW, conditional formatting is correctly considered for displaying within Calc, but it is ignored for copy+paste to Writer.

For example, setting the main cells format to "Default" in the provided attachment in comment #1, the cells are displayed according to their conditional format within Calc:

446   -> "#,##0" (Whole numbers style)
90.9  -> "#,##0.###" (Decimal numbers style)
4.906 -> "#,##0.###" (Decimal numbers style)

That last 4.906 is the display (CF) of the real value resulting from 446/90.9.

When copying these cells to writer, they are pasted as:

446
90.9
4.90649064906491

Now change the main cell format from "Default" to "#,##0.00" and repeat the copy+paste to Writer, which results in:

446.00
90.90
4.91

So, Calc respects the CF for displaying the cells (independently of the Ctrl+1 format), and the copy+paste to Writer depends on the main format in Ctrl+1.

Whether there is a bug (somewhere) or it is all expected behavior, I'll leave it to others.