Bug 125753 - No indication that secondary X axis just duplicates primary X axis
Summary: No indication that secondary X axis just duplicates primary X axis
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Chart (show other bugs)
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(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
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Reported: 2019-06-06 17:19 UTC by Cathy Crumbley
Modified: 2020-08-20 03:44 UTC (History)
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data for testing (13.49 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
2019-06-06 17:19 UTC, Cathy Crumbley
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Description Cathy Crumbley 2019-06-06 17:19:39 UTC
Created attachment 151992 [details]
data for testing

A secondary axis is usually assumed to show different categories or scales and to have data aligned to it.

In Chart, it is possible to display a secondary X-axis. However, it does not appear possible for it to have a different scale or to align data to it. 

There is no indication in the program that it does not work and documentation assumes that it works as expected. 

To reproduce:

1. Select data (sample data attached)
2. Go to Insert > Chart to open Chart Wizard
3. Click finish to close Chart Wizard
4. In edit mode, go to Insert > Axes
5. In the Axes dialog, click to select Secondary X-Axis

What is expected:
If data cannot be aligned to the secondary X-axis, I would expect an indication that choosing the option just duplicates the primary X-axis.

What happens instead:
There is no indication that the secondary X-axis does not work as expected.

Perhaps I am wrong and the secondary X-axis can work as expected. I have found no evidence of that but would be happy to be corrected (and shown how it can work).
Comment 1 Cathy Crumbley 2019-07-15 16:49:52 UTC
Update: It is possible to change the scale in a secondary X -axis.  However, the version I was using (6.2.0.2) has some bugs in dealing with a secondary X axis. That is, it is only possible to change the scale to values from 0 to 100. I thought I had checked this in other versions but it looks like I did not.

When reporting a bug, it is important to specify which versions are affected. I don't know why I did not do that or test this in other versions. I have now checked versions 6.1.6.3, 6.2.4.2, and 6.3. In all of those versions, it is possible to change the values to negative numbers and to numbers greater than 100. 

Thus, since it is possible to change the scale, the secondary X-axis is more useful than I thought.   I will attempt to clarify what it does in the documentation. 

I now think that this bug report does not need to be acted upon. 

I don't know what the process is for indicating that a bug report can be disregarded and hope that someone else can do that. Apologies to the busy developers for having to spend time with this.
Comment 2 Xisco Faulí 2020-01-20 17:02:48 UTC
Hello Cathy,
A new major release of LibreOffice is available since this bug was reported.
Could you please try to reproduce it with the latest version of LibreOffice
from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/ ?
I have set the bug's status to 'NEEDINFO'. Please change it back to
'UNCONFIRMED' if the bug is still present in the latest version.
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2020-07-20 03:34:10 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2020-08-20 03:44:13 UTC
Dear Cathy Crumbley,

Please read this message in its entirety before proceeding.

Your bug report is being closed as INSUFFICIENTDATA due to inactivity and
a lack of information which is needed in order to accurately
reproduce and confirm the problem. We encourage you to retest
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