Bug 129978 - Extend documentation for selection of chart data sources
Summary: Extend documentation for selection of chart data sources
Status: ASSIGNED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Version:
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6.4.0.1 rc
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Olivier Hallot
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Whiteboard: target:26.2.0
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Blocks: HelpGaps-NewFeatures
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Reported: 2020-01-13 10:49 UTC by Markus Elfring
Modified: 2025-09-24 15:05 UTC (History)
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Description Markus Elfring 2020-01-13 10:49:04 UTC 
I suggest to add the link “https://help.libreoffice.org/6.4/en-GB/text/scalc/guide/cellreferences.html” for more helpful information around the topic “Referencing other sheets” to the documentation “To specify a data range”.
https://help.libreoffice.org/6.4/en-GB/text/schart/01/wiz_data_range.html#hd_id1877193
Comment 1 Xisco Faulí 2020-05-11 08:54:36 UTC 
Changing component to Documentation
Comment 2 Olivier Hallot 2020-05-13 21:36:06 UTC 
Please explain the steps you want to achieve. It appears not possible to have a data range directly from another file, except by pasting the data into cells in the file that holds the chart.
Comment 3 Markus Elfring 2020-05-14 08:42:30 UTC 
(In reply to Olivier Hallot from comment #2)
I would appreciate helpful descriptions for functionality which is partly explained by an information source like the following.

Support for referring to tables from external files
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122011#c11
Comment 4 Commit Notification 2025-09-24 15:05:47 UTC 
Olivier Hallot committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/help/commit/52991f1a6f4677758dfeff3f3cd16653f3915620

tdf#129978 Extend documentation for selection of chart data sources