Bug 157989 - FILEOPEN XLSX Pivot table filter field hides text next to it
Summary: FILEOPEN XLSX Pivot table filter field hides text next to it
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
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Blocks: Pivot-Table-XLSX
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Reported: 2023-10-30 16:47 UTC by Gabor Kelemen (Collabora)
Modified: 2025-11-27 11:30 UTC (History)
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Example file from Excel 2016 (12.29 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet)
2023-10-30 16:47 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (Collabora)
Details
The example file in Excel 2016 and Calc master (191.60 KB, image/png)
2023-10-30 16:48 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (Collabora)
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Modified example file without the filter field - looks good in Calc (12.23 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet)
2023-10-30 16:49 UTC, Gabor Kelemen (Collabora)
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Description Gabor Kelemen (Collabora) 2023-10-30 16:47:30 UTC
Created attachment 190516 [details]
Example file from Excel 2016

Attached document contains a pivot table in A8:C14 with a filter field enabled, which is displayed above the table area in A6:B6. There is also some text next to the filter field, and above the table area in C6:C7. This text is visible in Excel, but not in Calc. The same text appears when it's one column to the right of the pivot table area, in D6:D7.

1. Open attached document in Excel and Calc
-> In Excel there is some text in the C6:C7 cells, but not in Calc.

Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 7d08767b890e723cd502b1c61d250924f695eb98
CPU threads: 15; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: default; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (hu_HU); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

also back to 4.0, this probably never worked.

Turning off the filter field in Excel and saving makes the text in C6:C7 appear.
Comment 1 Gabor Kelemen (Collabora) 2023-10-30 16:48:52 UTC
Created attachment 190517 [details]
The example file in Excel 2016 and Calc master
Comment 2 Gabor Kelemen (Collabora) 2023-10-30 16:49:22 UTC
Created attachment 190518 [details]
Modified example file without the filter field - looks good in Calc
Comment 3 m_a_riosv 2023-10-31 17:19:37 UTC
I think LO doesn't accept any value or cell format on the pivot table area.

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41645

Maybe we can consider this as a duplicate of that one.
Comment 4 Buovjaga 2023-11-07 16:29:51 UTC
(In reply to m.a.riosv from comment #3)
> I think LO doesn't accept any value or cell format on the pivot table area.
> 
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41645
> 
> Maybe we can consider this as a duplicate of that one.

Gabor: what do you think?
Comment 5 Gabor Kelemen (Collabora) 2023-11-07 17:16:32 UTC
(In reply to Buovjaga from comment #4)
> (In reply to m.a.riosv from comment #3)
> > I think LO doesn't accept any value or cell format on the pivot table area.
> > 
> > https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41645
> > 
> > Maybe we can consider this as a duplicate of that one.
> 
> Gabor: what do you think?

Hm, that's an interesting bug above, thanks for pointing it out.

However, I think this is slightly different. Excel does not consider the C6 cell as "pivot table area" - Calc does (click long on the A6 "Value3" button and it even highlights A6:C6 as one unit!). 
Since Calc considers C6 belonging to the pivot table, it does not allow pre-existing content or formatting to be imported there.

So here I think we should redefine what is considered pivot table area. Adding more filters in Excel makes the pivot area grow upwards, not to the right - so only two columns seem to be needed by the filter.
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2025-11-27 11:30:44 UTC
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