Bug 146544 - EDITING Table Design doesn't Format Multiple Fields
Summary: EDITING Table Design doesn't Format Multiple Fields
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Base (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.3.0 release
Hardware: All All
: low enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Database-Tables
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Reported: 2022-01-03 12:00 UTC by flywire
Modified: 2024-12-22 20:37 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Simple Base Demo Database (3.08 KB, application/vnd.sun.xml.base)
2022-01-03 12:00 UTC, flywire 		Details
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Description flywire 2022-01-03 12:00:14 UTC 
Created attachment 177277 [details]
Simple Base Demo Database

Description:
Field Properties and Format Field not applied to multiple fields selected in Table Design

Steps to Reproduce:
1) Open attached Demo0.mdb
2) Right-click on Tasks table, Edit
3) Select EndDate and StartDate Fields
4) Format Field, Date: 12/99, OK
5) Select EndDate Field, Format Field - Format unchanged
5) Select StartDate Field, Format Field - Format changed

Actual Results:
Only the last selected field reformatted

Expected Results:
Users commonly need to change properties and reformat many fields identically. Table Design change Field Properties and Format for all fields if Multiple fields selected.

Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Version: 7.3.0.1 (x64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 840fe2f57ae5ad80d62bfa6e25550cb10ddabd1d
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19043; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-AU (en_AU); UI: en-GB
Calc: threaded
Comment 1 Alex Thurgood 2022-01-03 14:47:12 UTC 
Confirming, this is inherited from OOo and has always been this way, but agree that it would be nice to have.

Setting as RFE.