Take any dataset and apply autofilter to it. (Using the "Data > Filter > Autofilter" menu). Now from the pull-down list of any column, select the "Standard filter..." option. Use the "Contains" condition and enter a string that none of the records have. So now all the records will be filtered out. Again, from the pull-down list of any column, select the "Standard filter..." option. Logically, the GUI should have changed to reflect the filter that we have already applied: (a) There should be a tick against the "Standard filter..." option (toggleable) (b) The check-boxes against all values should show a "neutral state" (a blue rectangle), rather "selected" (tick) or "unselected" (blank). But the filter GUI behaves as if there are no filters applied at all! Consequently, it does not allow you to reset those filters. There is a work-around, though: toggle the "All" check box TWICE. Thus effectively, you are bringing it back to "all selected" state. Although it somehow resets the Standard filter, this is not intuitive. (Users will not realize that they can reset the Standard Filter in this manner.)
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Hello, tested with LO 4.3.2 and bug doesn't occurs. Now when standard filter is used all values are unticked. When select All, then standard filter is deleted. Please test with version 4.3.2. Thank you
Contrary to raal's experience, I get the same behavior as the reporter, so we need more tests. Win 7 64-bit 4.3.2.2 and Version: 4.4.0.0.alpha1+ Build ID: 4586a3f564600f1a0ce15a5cb98868b43bb9351e TinderBox: Win-x86@42, Branch:master, Time: 2014-10-29_07:28:16
My mistake, when using condition "contains" the bug is here. When using condition "=" then autofilter works as expected.
These bugs are all related (but not neccesarily the same) in that they all complain about the autofilter capability and its behaviour. bug 44895 2012-01-18 Dup,65505 bug 46062 2012-02-14 bug 57431 2012-11-22 bug 65505 2013-06-07 bug 68113 2013-08-14 bug 68406 2013-08-22 bug 68872 2013-09-03 Dup,44895 bug 76890 2014-04-01 bug 78259 2014-05-04 Dup,44895 bug 81577 2014-07-21 bug 82821 2014-08-19 If they shoudl be combined, first a summary should be made of all issues, and then the complete description should be added to the oldest bug. If we all agree that this desciption then all the newer bugs mentioned above can be dup'ed against bug 44895.
Dear Rob, all, if filtering bugs are being bundled together, please could I add the following: Unintuitive UI for Standard Filter. Removing a standard filter is unintuitive. There's the option to remove filter in the data>filter menu, but not directly in the Standard Filter interface. I thought I was going mad until I googled it. How about, at the bottom of that Standard Filter dialog box, before OK and Cancel, "Reset Filters". Furthermore, it seems unintuitive to me that one removes a filter by changing its state to "none", rendering the rest of that filter's elements as null - I would expect there to be something alongside the filter saying, e.g. "delete filter". Cheers. Happy to start a new bug with this if required.
(In reply to Simon Dedman from comment #6) > Cheers. Happy to start a new bug with this if required. Yeah, there should be a bug for each issue. There can be metabugs that then refer to existing reports, like for right-to-left issues, accessibility..
I have just more or less given up on this issue, given. In my opinion the whole thing is caused by having 2 means of selecting: 1- In the text: Empty & Not Empty These selections do not have any mark that either of them is selected 2- The tick boxes The tick boxes miss <empty>. <empty> should match any field being empty (null), one or more spaces To describe as regexp: "$ *#" The solution to the problems would be: A- Make the set of tick-boxes complete- We could discuss if empty is the same as "1 or more spaces" as Excel does it, or that <empty> and <spaces> should be separate tick boxes B- Take away the text selections completely OR as a 'service' to the user leave them, but mark the appropriate tick boxes. Any selection should untick 'all' This way the folowing scenarios will be implemented: -Ticking 'all' would mark all tick boxes and effectively switch off selection -Ticking 'all' and unticking <empty> would be the same as "Not empty" -Unticking 'all' and ticking <empty> would be the same as "Empty" I hope all the issues regarding this are going to be resolved, so that all 10 or so issues which looked up and documented before can be put to rest.
This issue (a) as mentioned by the bug reporter does not exists anymore in the current libreoffice versions. The issue (b) is a duplicate of bug 55398. I mark this bug as RESOLVED WORKSFORME. (and make sure you report different issues in different bug reports in the future)