Bug 124897 - Conditional format is changing format templates
Summary: Conditional format is changing format templates
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
6.1.5.2 release
Hardware: All macOS (All)
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Blocks: Conditional-Formatting
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Reported: 2019-04-23 08:12 UTC by Joachim Wetzig
Modified: 2019-11-22 03:41 UTC (History)
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Screenshot of cell templates (331.90 KB, image/png)
2019-04-23 08:12 UTC, Joachim Wetzig
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Description Joachim Wetzig 2019-04-23 08:12:15 UTC
Created attachment 150932 [details]
Screenshot of cell templates

Greetings,

running LO on Mac:
Version: 6.1.5.2
Build-ID: 90f8dcf33c87b3705e78202e3df5142b201bd805
CPU-Threads: 8; BS: Mac OS X 10.13.6; UI-Render: Standard; 
Gebietsschema: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); Calc: group threaded

Setting up conditional format (CF) to ONLY format SOME property of a cell's format by adding a new format template, setting e. g. only background every other line (yup: still love that old line printer striped output style...) or setting only font color.

When using the CF and copying it to other cells it bloats by adding other properties from cells. I have not been able to identify WHEN this happens.

Example screenshots attached as a) new template setting only RGB [Bildschirmfoto 2019-04-23 um 09.50.38.png] and b) a template after repeated use [Bildschirmfoto 2019-04-23 um 09.50.56.png].

It would be nice, if 
1) - (preferred) one could control this "sucking up" of properties by explicitly allowing or denying it or 
2) - (less desirable) one could remove unwanted properties from the template after the fact 
(1) and 2) would make templates more useful, too) or
3) - (alternatively, but less flexible) it would not happen.

Cheers

Jo
Comment 1 Alex Thurgood 2019-04-23 09:21:50 UTC
@Joachim:

A detailed set of instructions with sample files so that we could try and observe the behaviour ourselves would be most useful, otherwise it is going to be hard to confirm, especially seeing as you have admitted that you don't know exactly when this occurs.

I seem to recall that cell text attributes have been "picked up" for quite a while now, and it is just that in your particular use case has irked you enough to raise a flag ;-)

When you write the following :

"When using the CF and copying it to other cells it bloats by adding other properties from cells. I have not been able to identify WHEN this happens."


What exactly do you mean ? Which other properties in particular ? Or, are only some properties picked up, seemingly at random ?

Setting NEEDINFO
Comment 2 Alex Thurgood 2019-04-23 09:24:08 UTC
One way to try and pin down the changes would be to carry out a comparison of the XML produced in the ODS file before and after application of the template.
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2019-10-22 02:32:33 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2019-11-22 03:41:27 UTC
Dear Joachim Wetzig,

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