Writer is a very good application and I like it. One annoying thing, writer is unable to make a very basic flowchart. This is shameful for a so powerful and popular word processor. Making the connector tools available to writer will solve the problem for we already have the drawing bar there with useful tools. This enhancement will help those people willing to make a simple flowchart on the go avoid using both draw and writer. Notice: the connectors are present in draw and impress but they are not present in the tool bars personalization options in writer. could you make the connectors available in writer?
I can confirm there is no connector in writer. set to new. This is a feature request.
Hi David, For time being, pls use Draw with the extra qualities, and copy / paste to Writer (look in Paste special ...) thanks, Cor
Hi Cor When you receive a complex document (.docx) and want to add an element to an existing chart man need the connector. If not you will have to redraw the whole chart in Draw and import it in Writer with the risk of breaking something in the document. Let us imagine the waste of time if the original chart is big
Hi David, Yes of course I agree that this will be good to have. (It's my expectation that once all drawing functions are in line across Draw and Writer - which IIRC is something planned - it will be fixed automatically.)
thanks
Would be useful to know if this is an easy hack or not from the devs.
little clarification in summary, for in case someone only sees the summary, without the field component (e.g. in the mail notifications)
Seems the connectors split button (.uno:ConnectorToolbox) is also missing from Calc.
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Still open, paste from Impress works...Could it be an easy hack ?
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This sounds very good, I am the type of user who does not usually install impress / draw although I must do it for reasons like this.
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Gulsah: interested in taking this one on?
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Apparently still missing. Copy-paste from draw makes writer move all inserted connectors every time it opens the document.
In Libreoffice 7.3.5.2 Writer and Calc we still cannot create connectors. Apart from this I pretty much enjoy working with Libreoffice. Please include this feature in a future version, I think it would be really helpful for many users.
Not only the toolbar for inserting a connector is missing. A: When you have a drawing in Draw, where the connector geometry is changed away from default, and you copy&paste this drawing to Writer, the connector has a wrong geometry. The import uses the adjustment values as if they are given in Twips. It makes no different whether you select all shapes together in Draw or first group them in Draw and then copy them. B: A connector in Writer misses the "Connector"-dialog. That is ".uno:ConnectorAttributes". It is not simply missing from the menu, but it is not available in Writer at all. It should be in category "Format". I do not think that adding the missing functionalities is an easy hack. Tested with Version: 24.2.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: 7ef3d937415185ef66e32dd3043783eddcd03db5 CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 19045; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI: en-US Calc: CL threaded
A workaround tip: Use the Gallery to store some connection lines what you need. You can put the connection lines from the Draw application into the Gallery, and then you can use the elements of the Gallery in the Calc application, too. Create a new Theme in the Gallery. Create some Connection lines in the Draw aplication. Disconnect the connection lines from the shapes, and then drag the connection lines into the Theme. You can use these elements of the Gallery in the Calc application, too. You can reconnect them to the glue points of the shapes after dragging the lines from the Gallery into the Calc document. ----- Notes: 1. The Connection Lines has zero line width by default, therefore they are not visible in the Gallery. Use 0,1 cm line width before you drag the lines into the Gallery. Then the lines will be visible in the Gallery. Of course you can modify the line width (and all of the other properties) after you dragging them from the Gallery into the Calc application. 2. There is a parameter of the Navigator in the Draw application: “Show ALL objects”/“Show named objects only”. There is not such option in the Calc application, therefore only the named objects will be appeared in the Navigator. Workaround tip: add a name to the connection lines before you grag thenm into the Gallery. It is possible in this way in both of the Calc and the Draw applications: Select the Connection line - From main menu: Format - Name. Add a general name to the Connection lines before you drag them into the gallery: “Curve” or “Rectangular” or “Straight” or add any other name. The LibreOffice will modify the name (by numbering them) for unique names when you drag the lines from the Gallery into your document. Tested in LO7.5.8 version. ...And it is works instable for me in the Writer application.