Bug 155153 - Calc: menu item "Format - Group" should be more clear
Summary: Calc: menu item "Format - Group" should be more clear
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.5.2.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium minor
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: difficultyBeginner, easyHack, skillDesign, topicUI
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Blocks: Main-Menu
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Reported: 2023-05-05 08:01 UTC by levtoji
Modified: 2023-05-12 08:09 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description levtoji 2023-05-05 08:01:43 UTC 
Description:
When selecting rows and clicking Format - Group (or something like this, using german version) the menu is greyed out. When using the shortcut F12, it works.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select rows
2. Pick Format - Group
3. Greyed out menu

Actual Results:
Nothing

Expected Results:
Grouping works


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
[Information automatically included from LibreOffice]
Locale: de
Module: SpreadsheetDocument
[Information guessed from browser]
OS: Linux (All)
OS is 64bit: yes

Version: 7.5.2.2 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 50(Build:2)
CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.1; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI: de-DE
Calc: threaded

NixOS build
Comment 1 ady 2023-05-05 10:25:09 UTC 
It is... Kind of a repro, but not exactly.

Keyboard shortcut F12 is equivalent to menu Data > Group and Outline > Group.

And, indeed, within the Format > Group submenu, the entries are all grayed out.

So maybe this is about documentation, or better labeling the current Format > Group menu?
Comment 2 Roman Kuznetsov 2023-05-05 12:56:17 UTC 
Format - Group menu is from shapes grouping. And I think it's in our documentation (that nobody read)

I agree with ady - we need some changes here. 

Fromat - Shapes Group may be?
Comment 3 levtoji 2023-05-06 14:35:52 UTC 
You are of course right, the function I searched for was Data > Group and Outline > Group. When searching online for the functionality, I found an instruction for the other menu. I was not searching for a long time, so we can maybe blame it on me.
Comment 4 Heiko Tietze 2023-05-08 13:40:49 UTC 
(In reply to Roman Kuznetsov from comment #2)
> Format - Shapes Group may be?

+1, yet it reads strange
Comment 5 Heiko Tietze 2023-05-08 13:50:48 UTC 
Code pointer: 

.uno:GroupMenu in [1] and in [2] (both labels are "Group")

AFAICS all apps (sw*, sc, sd*) collect the commands .uno:FormatGroup, .uno:FormatUngroup, .uno:EnterGroup, and .uno:LeaveGroup under this submenu. 

Calc has a context menu for drawing objects with this submenu.

[1] officecfg/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/UI/GenericCommands.xcu
[2] officecfg/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/UI/DrawImpressCommands.xcu
Comment 6 Roman Kuznetsov 2023-05-11 19:15:18 UTC 
Set to NEW by Comment 4.

EasyHack for beginners, code pointers are above