Bug 63407 - Linked contents from external source (web page or local file) not updated
Summary: Linked contents from external source (web page or local file) not updated
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.0.0.0.alpha0+ Master
Hardware: x86 (IA32) All
: highest major
Assignee: Not Assigned
URL:
Whiteboard: bibisected40 target:6.4.0 target:6.3.0.2
Keywords: regression
: 59762 60672 61587 62714 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: Files-Linked mab4.0
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Reported: 2013-04-11 00:13 UTC by Chad
Modified: 2019-07-18 10:04 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

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Crash report or crash signature:


Attachments
Example of Release 4 not returning External Data on a Web Page (171.73 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
2013-04-11 00:13 UTC, Chad
Details
This document is not affected (124.56 KB, application/x-vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
2013-04-12 05:31 UTC, Rainer Bielefeld Retired
Details
Additional tests of the External Data problem (217.48 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
2013-04-12 14:54 UTC, Chad
Details

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Description Chad 2013-04-11 00:13:02 UTC
Created attachment 77792 [details]
Example of Release 4 not returning External Data on a Web Page

Spreadsheet does not return external data that is linked to a web page.

Specific information is contained in the attached spreadsheet.
Comment 1 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2013-04-11 05:09:17 UTC
Effect is [Reproducible] with reporter's sample and server installation of "LibO  4.0.2.2 rc   -  German UI / German Locale  [Build ID: 4c82dcdd6efcd48b1d8bba66bfe1989deee49c3)]"  {tinderbox: @6, pull time  2013-03-26 12:00(?)} on German WIN7 Home Premium (64bit) with newly created own user profile.

LibO 3.6.6.2 updates the contents with out problems, so it seems to be a regression.

Some more research required, I will do that later
Comment 2 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2013-04-11 05:44:15 UTC
Some first quick tests seem to show that this is not a general problem, some of my documents collecting data from Bugzilla Tables work fine with WIN LibO 4.0.2.2
Comment 3 Joel Madero 2013-04-11 20:56:53 UTC
@ Rainer - should we mark this as NEW since you reproduced with Chad's file?
Comment 4 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2013-04-12 04:50:59 UTC
Additional new test results: With LibO  4.0.2.2 rc   -  German UI / German Locale  [Build ID: 4c82dcdd6efcd48b1d8bba66bfe1989deee49c3)]"  {tinderbox: @6, pull time  2013-03-26 12:00(?)} on German WIN7 Home Premium (64bit) with newly created own user profile II get the "The link could not be updated." Message when I try to insert the contents into a brand new empty document.
Already reproducible with reporter's sample and 4.0.0.3

@Joel (In reply to comment #3):
I intendedly did not move from new, because we are far away from having all info QA can contribute in the bug.

At least we should find out
a) when did that start?
b) also Linux effected? If yes, a bibisect might be useful
c) Is that also an effect with reporter's document or does the problem for the
   same linked contents (due to my test: independent)?
d) is the problem related to particular settings (language detection, number 
   detection, whatever else, update frequency? Current status due to my tests: independent)?

Although it might be much more easy for a developer:
A) Why is that particular contents affected, but not all from all sources?
   Se my attached sample

I think we need some general thinking about our proceeding between first confirmation that the bug exists and the forwarding to developers, what might be a part of your thoughts concerning "more structured QA-work". May be we should have some tags showing the QA status, "Failed to reproduce ... reproduced ... still some research to be done ... only confirmation with a second OS required ... ready for bugfixing". But we should not discuss that here in the bug, but in a thread on QA list. 

@Chad 
Do you have any idea what on <http://portfolios.morningstar.com/fund/summary?t=VTI> might cause the problem for LibO 4?
Comment 5 Joel Madero 2013-04-12 05:25:57 UTC
indeed, reproducible on Bodhi Linux 4.1 master pulled today. Bibisecting now
Comment 6 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2013-04-12 05:31:07 UTC
Created attachment 77836 [details]
This document is not affected

The question is: why?
Comment 7 Joel Madero 2013-04-12 05:37:36 UTC
 5dddcff8ae35692d89751ae98ab8acbbf802b5b4 is the first bad commit
commit 5dddcff8ae35692d89751ae98ab8acbbf802b5b4
Author: Bjoern Michaelsen <bjoern.michaelsen@canonical.com>
Date:   Tue Dec 11 05:22:26 2012 +0000

    source-hash-d85fd8a85501547d5bb87822d2589a07aed7f2d6
    
    commit d85fd8a85501547d5bb87822d2589a07aed7f2d6
    Author:     Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>
    AuthorDate: Wed Nov 21 12:41:41 2012 +0100
    Commit:     Stephan Bergmann <sbergman@redhat.com>
    CommitDate: Wed Nov 21 12:41:41 2012 +0100
    
        Fix install-gdb-printers for Mac OS X
    
        Change-Id: I685d277806e757fc6247f34d4db7386955dab7b7

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Comment 8 Rainer Bielefeld Retired 2013-04-12 11:21:06 UTC
Due to Joels bibisect this seems to be a 4.0 Master bug

I think remaining questions can be clarified by a developer much more effective than by users, so NEW.

@Spreadsheet Team
Please change  Status to ASSIGNED and add yourself to "Assigned To" if you accept this Bug or forward the Bug if it's not your turf (and remove others in team from CC).
Comment 9 Chad 2013-04-12 14:54:38 UTC
Created attachment 77887 [details]
Additional tests of the External Data problem

I ran some additional tests and could get to the data using a different selection on the External Data page.

The "Additional Testing" steps I used are at the bottom of "The Problem" tab.

Hope this helps.
Comment 10 Joel Madero 2013-04-14 17:01:50 UTC
*** Bug 60672 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 11 Joel Madero 2013-04-15 00:01:48 UTC
*** Bug 61587 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 12 Cor Nouws 2013-04-23 20:49:58 UTC
*** Bug 59762 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 13 Cor Nouws 2013-04-24 09:19:59 UTC
*** Bug 62714 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 14 Michel Rudelle 2013-04-29 08:11:03 UTC
Hi,
French users found that the link is case sensitive with version 4. Range names containing lower cases are not recognised, this confirms what has been described in duplicate although earlier bug 61587 (eg in attachment 75824 [details], replace Months with MONTHS and the link is again active)
Comment 15 Markus Mohrhard 2013-05-27 11:58:43 UTC
(In reply to comment #14)
> Hi,
> French users found that the link is case sensitive with version 4. Range
> names containing lower cases are not recognised, this confirms what has been
> described in duplicate although earlier bug 61587 (eg in attachment 75824 [details]
> [details], replace Months with MONTHS and the link is again active)

So this is just a duplicate of the other two bugs?
Comment 16 KSN 2013-05-27 12:16:04 UTC
Hi

How is possible to know if this bug has been taken up for development i.e. change and testing?  It's been more than 3 months since being reported (bug 61587) and so far there's been only some back and forth.  Bug 61587 was closed as RESOLVED since it was made a duplicate of this one.

So, where are we in terms of resolution of the real problem i.e. non-updation of external links?  The example file given with 61587 shows clearly that the problem can be replicated by changing range names from lower case to Upper case.  But that's not going to help people who have many existing worksheets which will suddenly stop working.

This is going to hurt Libre Office adoption and it's image.

Thanks for providing a quick fix guys.

KSN
Comment 17 Markus Mohrhard 2013-05-27 13:18:52 UTC
(In reply to comment #16)
> Hi
> 
> How is possible to know if this bug has been taken up for development i.e.
> change and testing?  It's been more than 3 months since being reported (bug
> 61587) and so far there's been only some back and forth.  Bug 61587 was
> closed as RESOLVED since it was made a duplicate of this one.

The bug was fixed already as Bug 64031.

> 
> So, where are we in terms of resolution of the real problem i.e.
> non-updation of external links?  The example file given with 61587 shows
> clearly that the problem can be replicated by changing range names from
> lower case to Upper case.  But that's not going to help people who have many
> existing worksheets which will suddenly stop working.
> 
> This is going to hurt Libre Office adoption and it's image.

These comments don't help motivating developers to work on these bugs.
Comment 18 KSN 2013-05-27 13:45:58 UTC
Sorry, Markhus

No intention to hurt anyone's feelings.  I really appreciate the work being done by the Libre Office team.  I actively promote the usage of Libre Office within my organisation and wasn't aware that the problem had been solved via Bug 63401, since there was no update to Bug 63407 or Bug 61587 showing the problem had been solved.

Thanks for the update, Markhus.  Since I am relatively new to the patch release process and it's deployment to a full version, how can one get this patch to work in the release that I am using?

Once again no intention to hurt feelings and apologies from my side if you'll felt bad.

Regards
KSN
Comment 19 GerardF 2013-05-27 13:51:34 UTC
(In reply to comment #15)
> (In reply to comment #14)
> > Hi,
> > French users found that the link is case sensitive with version 4. Range
> > names containing lower cases are not recognised, this confirms what has been
> > described in duplicate although earlier bug 61587 (eg in attachment 75824 [details]
> > [details], replace Months with MONTHS and the link is again active)
> 
> So this is just a duplicate of the other two bugs?

Not sure. The other was for link for another local file, this one is related to web page.

I will test when a build with the fix will be available. (tomorow or later)
Comment 20 GerardF 2013-05-30 09:48:45 UTC
Tested with Version: 4.2.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 526fbddf6935b0a3983563af71c4ccea4561ceb
TinderBox: Win-x86@6, Branch:master, Time: 2013-05-30_00:05:37

I've made a test with 2 of my files and with attachment of this report.
Also with attachment bug 61587.

Links are updated.
Comment 21 KSN 2013-06-01 04:23:49 UTC
Hi

Is the build also available for Linux?  If so, which is the build number?

Thanks
KSN


(In reply to comment #20)
> Tested with Version: 4.2.0.0.alpha0+
> Build ID: 526fbddf6935b0a3983563af71c4ccea4561ceb
> TinderBox: Win-x86@6, Branch:master, Time: 2013-05-30_00:05:37
> 
> I've made a test with 2 of my files and with attachment of this report.
> Also with attachment bug 61587.
> 
> Links are updated.
Comment 22 Markus Mohrhard 2013-06-02 01:03:02 UTC
(In reply to comment #21)
> Hi
> 
> Is the build also available for Linux?  If so, which is the build number?
> 

You can pick any of the recent daily builds from http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ for master, 4-1 or 4-0 branch. All builds after later than May, 28th should contain the fix.

If it is fixed please mark this bug report as duplicate of Bug 64031.
Comment 23 Eike Rathke 2013-10-11 00:25:41 UTC
So, is this fixed for updates of web pages in a recent 4.0.x or 4.1.x build?
Comment 24 Björn Michaelsen 2014-01-17 09:58:40 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 25 Kohei Yoshida 2014-02-07 06:09:37 UTC
I'll mark this resolved per Comment 20 (and also the fact that there has been no reply to Comment 23 for the past 4 months).
Comment 26 Commit Notification 2019-07-17 10:58:41 UTC
Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "master":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/59fa93d128a5363f3e7d6f75e71457261ea6f1d7%5E%21

crashtesting: assert on export of fdo63407-3.ods to xls

It will be available in 6.4.0.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Comment 27 Commit Notification 2019-07-18 10:04:36 UTC
Caolán McNamara committed a patch related to this issue.
It has been pushed to "libreoffice-6-3":

https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/778359cceebb5aa60db05a44106868e855b6fcfc%5E%21

crashtesting: assert on export of fdo63407-3.ods to xls

It will be available in 6.3.0.2.

The patch should be included in the daily builds available at
https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More
information about daily builds can be found at:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds

Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.