We have a few DDE spreadsheets that bring in market data from a 3rd party application using DDE. In Libreoffice 3.6, this worked perfectly. In 4.0, the first time we paste the DDE code it works OK, but if we close the spreadsheet and reopen it, the DDE no longer updates even though the links are "automatic." Operating System: Windows 7 Version: 4.0.0.0.beta2 Last worked in: 3.6.4.3 release
Can we get a test document from you by chance? Marking as NEEDINFO. If you can't just reopen as REOPENED and leave a comment (just makes it a lot easier if we have a test document). Thanks in advance
I need a file to reproduce it. Otherwise it is nearly impossible to fix this problem. Looks like another problem around the cached value import but since I have no idea how to create I'm not able to fix it. Since there has been no test file I could not fix it in time for 4.0.0 with the other cached value import bugs. Please provide a test file ASAP.
Yeah, sorry, I can get you a test document with DDE, but it won't be any good because you won't have the program to actually provide the DDE data. Do you guys have any DDE test documents of your own?
Created attachment 73938 [details] dde test document I don't know how useful this is.
Reopening.
Quite an easy fix.
Markus Mohrhard committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=63e3d8671ef5cf9405405c8f3c388b0aea679e91 make it possible to update DDE links after loading, fdo#59032 The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
I'll mark this fixed. The automatic commit message should follow soon.
Markus Mohrhard committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-4-0": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=3305827a24a1b9c66220bb3578fec6a43df4a421&h=libreoffice-4-0 make it possible to update DDE links after loading, fdo#59032 It will be available in LibreOffice 4.0.1. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.