Bug 116601 - Feature request: support xy-chart for pivot chart (was: Pivot chart can't be time based)
Summary: Feature request: support xy-chart for pivot chart (was: Pivot chart can't be ...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Chart (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
5.4.6.2 release
Hardware: All Linux (All)
: medium normal
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Blocks: Pivot-Chart
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Reported: 2018-03-24 09:36 UTC by Philippe Hemmel
Modified: 2022-03-19 13:29 UTC (History)
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example spreadsheet (33.30 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
2018-03-24 09:36 UTC, Philippe Hemmel
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pivot chart dates scaling (38.30 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
2022-03-19 13:27 UTC, ouinouin
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Description Philippe Hemmel 2018-03-24 09:36:30 UTC
Created attachment 140849 [details]
example spreadsheet

## Steps to reproduce

* create a table with 2 columns. The first column contains dates, its header is called "date""
* create a pivot table with the "date" column as row field, the second column as a column field
* create a pivot chart based on the pivot table, chart type "Line"

See the example document : web_error.ods

## Actual behaviour

* With a chart type Line, it's impossible to specify that the chart is time based (the X axis)
* With a chart type XY, the X axis shows numbers and not dates, and the numbers are related to the line number of each values in the pivot table

See the  sheet called "Table dynamique_php_error_1"

## Expected behaviour

The behavior must be the same as a normal chart based on a normal table (not a pivot table) containing the same values (see sheet3 in the attached document)

* With a chart type Line, I should be able to specify that the chart is time based (the X axis). 
	* the check box "time based" is in the second step of the chart wizard, "Data range", which is inactive for a pivot chart
* With a chart type XY, the X axis should show dates and should be time based

It's a kind of a regression, because before the pivot chart function, I was able to create a normal chart based on a pivot table that could have the expected behaviour. Obviously the chart was not linked to the pivot table, but it was easy to adapt.
It's more complicated now, as I have to copy all the data in another sheet to create the right chart.

## Desktop configuration

**Operating system:** Linux 4.13 (Kubuntu 17.10 Artful 64 bits)

Plasma 5.12.3 (kubuntu-ppa/backports)

**LibreOffice version:** 

Version: 5.4.6.2
Build ID: 1:5.4.6~rc2-0ubuntu0.17.10.1
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.13; UI render: default; VCL: kde4; 
Locale: fr-FR (fr_FR.UTF-8); Calc: single

Coming from http://ppa.launchpad.net/libreoffice/libreoffice-5-4/ubuntu
Comment 1 raal 2018-03-26 06:05:43 UTC
Confirm. X axis is type Numeric.
Version: 6.1.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 1fbe46cf08f525e78016feef83f4c38b79b337ba
CPU threads: 4; OS: Linux 4.4; UI render: default; VCL: gtk2; 
TinderBox: Linux-rpm_deb-x86_64@70-TDF, Branch:master, Time: 2018-03-24_23:04:38
Comment 2 no where 2018-05-26 16:09:03 UTC
I have the same issue.

I think a more general solution should allow any data type that can be mapped to numeric range to be the value for an x/y-chart based on a pivot table.

What are the plans to implement this feature?
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2019-05-27 02:45:45 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2021-05-27 05:01:31 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 ouinouin 2022-03-19 13:27:10 UTC
Created attachment 178969 [details]
pivot chart dates scaling

left graph on tab 3 frome pivot chart, right one ame data copied and made with a normal chert, observe differences between both and see hos the date range is affected by pivot chart.
Comment 6 ouinouin 2022-03-19 13:29:30 UTC
hi, this behavior is stille present on libreoffice at least 7.1.
the initial issue is that on the pivot chart, the dates are taken element by element on the x scale, the range isnt correctly calculated for dates
if there is non contiguous dates, they will be displayed as if they were contiguous, this is a very annoying bug, since combined with the fact you cannot make directly anymore a normal chart from cells of a pivot table, it makes creation of a Time based graph difficult.