Bug 116671 - Make Name box resizable
Summary: Make Name box resizable
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.0.2.1 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Reported: 2018-03-28 04:43 UTC by russell
Modified: 2018-11-05 16:16 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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named box feature request (29.12 KB, image/jpeg)
2018-04-02 22:22 UTC, russell
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Description russell 2018-03-28 04:43:24 UTC
Description:
= Feature Request

== Active Cell Reference (Name Box)

Increase the usability of the Name box:

  1. Make the Name box resizable, so it can be made larger.

  2. Only show names that are applicable to the sheet. 
     That would be names that have scope global and names where scope is equal to the sheet name.
     All other names should be filtered out.  Currently all named variables appear in the list.

== Manage Names Dialog

  1. Add a Value column to show the contents of the named variable (Range or formula expression).

Steps to Reproduce:
NA

Actual Results:  
NA

Expected Results:
NA


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No



Additional Info:


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:56.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/56.0
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2018-04-02 14:56:51 UTC
(In reply to russell from comment #0)
> Description:
> = Feature Request
> 
> == Active Cell Reference (Name Box)
> 
> Increase the usability of the Name box:
> 
>   1. Make the Name box resizable, so it can be made larger.
> 
>   2. Only show names that are applicable to the sheet. 
>      That would be names that have scope global and names where scope is
> equal to the sheet name.
>      All other names should be filtered out.  Currently all named variables
> appear in the list.

Are you talking about Sheet - Named Ranges and Expressions - Define?

Note that each of your three issues should have their own report.
Comment 2 russell 2018-04-02 22:22:22 UTC
Created attachment 141041 [details]
named box feature request
Comment 3 russell 2018-04-02 22:29:10 UTC
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #1)
> (In reply to russell from comment #0)
> > Description:
> > = Feature Request
> > 
> > == Active Cell Reference (Name Box)
> > 
> > Increase the usability of the Name box:
> > 
> >   1. Make the Name box resizable, so it can be made larger.
> > 
> >   2. Only show names that are applicable to the sheet. 
> >      That would be names that have scope global and names where scope is
> > equal to the sheet name.
> >      All other names should be filtered out.  Currently all named variables
> > appear in the list.
> 
> Are you talking about Sheet - Named Ranges and Expressions - Define?
> 
> Note that each of your three issues should have their own report.


Please see image.

Page 7 - Publication "Getting Started with Calc", calls it 
Active cell reference (Name box).

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/images/5/5c/GS5205-GettingStartedWithCalc.pdf

This is my first feature request and was unsure how to post, and concluded since they all belonged to the same object (named box) I went with one.

Should I create separate requests now for these, or just remember to create separate entires for future requests?
Comment 4 Buovjaga 2018-04-03 11:56:59 UTC
Ok, let's involve the UX team and they can comment on the other proposals as well (before they are split into their own reports).
Comment 5 Heiko Tietze 2018-04-03 12:28:37 UTC
(In reply to russell from comment #3)
> This is my first feature request...

Congratulations! And many thanks for your enhancement ideas.

>   1. Make the Name box resizable, so it can be made larger.

The "name box" as the tooltip calls it is a dropdown control. Those are static controls, sized for the best fit (e.g. made smaller recently for bug 90487). There are no means for a dynamical resizing, i.e. a splitter on the right side where you can adjust the width to your needs (and that would affect all toolbars).
While suggestion for a solution is great you should always make clear what the issue is (use case). Guess you cannot read long names, and a (bad) alternative could be to abbreviate the text with ellipsis.

>   2. Only show names that are applicable to the sheet. 

Ideally you add an exemplary sheet for this issue. 

>   1. Add a Value column to show the contents of the named variable (Range or
> formula expression).

Sheet > Named Ranges and Expressions > Manage (ctrl+F3); such a column can become really large and you jump to the position on selection. So what's the advantage?
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2018-10-09 11:27:18 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2018-11-05 16:11:52 UTC
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