Excel has a feature where you can remove duplicates with a single click. This would be very helpful to have in LibreOffice as well.
Like this: http://milospjanic.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-remove-duplicates-in-libreoffice.html ?
Yes, that is what I was looking for. But I still think it should be an optional button/dialog available on the main toolbar without having to go through all that. Like this: https://thinkandbegin.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/remove-dup-2.png
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Below also another program that easily performs the procedure. WPS Spreadsheets http://pt-br.tinypic.com/r/2h663gj/8
Additional detail: in Excel, the function *removes* duplicates in-place, while filter in LO only allows hiding in-place, or removing by copying to a different location. So actually, LO lacks the functionality.
(In reply to Joel Madero from comment #1) > Like this: > http://milospjanic.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-remove-duplicates-in- > libreoffice.html ? IMHO, in Excel it made more clear for users. Different dialogue with very simple options. And in result in Excel we have only rows without any duplicates and without copying of result to another range...
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I would also like to request that "Remove Duplicates" is added to Calc. In Excel, removing duplicates from a column is a one click action. In Calc I have to go through multiple steps to obtain this. It's a waste of time if it's encessary to do it in multiple spreadsheets, it's a waste of time to make a macro and other spreadsheets offer this by default. There is an extension that adds this function to Calc so I propose that this is added to the default installation, that a .uno command is created for this button to be integrated in the Notebookbars as well. https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/remove-duplicates
Created attachment 145904 [details] Remove Duplicates button in Data Ribbon in Excel 2016
Well, that extension apparently does not work in 6.1
Dear Markus and Eike, Would it be possible to use the code on the extension to provide this function by default on Calc? It is a really useful data manipulation option that Calc should have by default like most Office suites have.
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Well, Muhammet Kara after checking the extension confirmed that it is written in Basic, meaning that it is a macro. If someone would translate it to C++, it would be awesome.
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(In reply to Pedro from comment #13) > Well, Muhammet Kara after checking the extension confirmed that it is > written in Basic, meaning that it is a macro. > > If someone would translate it to C++, it would be awesome. Now there is faster extension https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/remove-duplicates-fast for it
Couldn't this extension be added by default to LibreOffice?
(In reply to Roman Kuznetsov from comment #15) > (In reply to Pedro from comment #13) > > Well, Muhammet Kara after checking the extension confirmed that it is > > written in Basic, meaning that it is a macro. > > > > If someone would translate it to C++, it would be awesome. > > Now there is faster extension > https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/remove-duplicates-fast for it Couldn't your extension be added by default to LibreOffice? Also, please consider adding support for it to create its own tab in the Tabbed Bar UI.
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Since we have a working solution with the standard filter dialog it should be easy to add a new UNO command and run the filter procedure with a predefined setting. Code pointer sc/source/ui/view/tabvwshc.cxx #308 sc/source/ui/dbgui/sfiltdlg.cxx Would understand this as a medium to interesting difficulty.
Just to mention: this is not just filtering. It also deletes the cells with duplicate values. But I guess that is one minor thing to add.
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https://www.univention.com/blog-en/2020/11/onlyoffice-docs-brand-new-name-and-big-updates-for-spreadsheets/ OnlyOffice, which is an open source (GPL3) office suite added the RemoveDuplicates function. Maybe we could use their function.
Here's the code pointer in OnlyOffice: https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/sdkjs/blob/6df8cd8e34e4591dc5d35675cbb067498d40d9c7/cell/view/WorksheetView.js#L20104 https://github.com/ONLYOFFICE/sdkjs/blob/6df8cd8e34e4591dc5d35675cbb067498d40d9c7/cell/view/WorksheetView.js#L20176
(In reply to Pedro from comment #23) > https://www.univention.com/blog-en/2020/11/onlyoffice-docs-brand-new-name- > and-big-updates-for-spreadsheets/ > > OnlyOffice, which is an open source (GPL3) office suite added the > RemoveDuplicates function. > Maybe we could use their function. OnlyOffice doesn't use LibreOffice, so I don't see how we could use their function.
Maybe look at it and make something similar in LibO codebase. Thanks for the explanation on the Telegram channel.
Hello! Is there any news about function?
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Created attachment 177433 [details] Only Office also acquired the Remove Duplicates functionality Only Office also got the Remove Duplicates functionality by default.
Created attachment 177434 [details] Remove Duplicates in Google Sheets This feature is also present in Google Sheets.
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Note that any feature request having a working extension with compatible license is already an easy hack. Just use its source code as the template that provides the required logic - it uses UNO commands, which may be easily converted to a C++ code, and assign a new UNO command to that new function. (Given that Remove Duplicates Fast is based on Remove Duplicates (https://github.com/ACTom/lo-extension-removeduplicates) which is GPLv3, which doesn't allow to use its code in LO directly because we need an MPL-compatible license, interested parties may ask the author for changed license in a github issue.)
What MPL specific license do you recommend?
Asked the dev in a new issue.
The developer already changed the license to MPL 2.0. Hopefully this allows someone to pick this up. :D
Important, also the values of the duplicate selected cells should be deleted and not the entire rows. Moving the remaining data up to leave the blank spaces below.
Created attachment 184664 [details] Why remove the whole row? The filter hides the entire 8th row, including the letter f (view image attached). The correct behavior would be to remove values 1 and 4 from row 8. Do not filter by hiding row 8 but move values 2 and 1 from row 9 up one cell and leave B9 and C9 empty. I know this was a standard filter, but the button that they put specifically to remove duplicates should not be a filter, but actually remove the duplicate values within the selection and not the entire row.
Created attachment 185548 [details] WPS Worksheets Manage Duplicates menu WPS Worksheets is vastly superior in managing duplicates to any other office suite. It not only allows for removal, but also highlighting and also fetching unique values or highlight them.
Created attachment 185549 [details] Dialog It allows selecting duplicates in selected range, in two ranges within the sheet, in different sheets in the worksheet and in different worksheets!
Created attachment 185550 [details] Highlight values
Created attachment 185551 [details] Fetch unique values This is a feature already available in MSO since at least 2007 and it's a feature that's been actively worked on in other Office suites as well, to a point where it is very well designed. All in all, this is a feature that is sorely lacking in Calc for several years now and with the evolution of this feature visible in OnlyOffice and WPS Worksheets (available in Linux as well), and with the RemoveDuplicates extension having compatible license with LibO it's hard to understand why this has been overlooked for so long now.
(In reply to Pedro from comment #42) > with the RemoveDuplicates > extension having compatible license with LibO it's hard to understand why > this has been overlooked for so long now. 0. both extensions https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/remove-duplicates https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/remove-duplicates-fast are licensed GPL (whatever version) and thus are *not* compatible with LibreOffice licensing. 1. even if they were, that tells nothing about the source code whether it would fit into LO core code (or even be in C++ that it could). 2. if those extensions fulfil the requirements, then why not use them.
If we realize bug 149933 searching for duplicates could be one option too.
(In reply to Eike Rathke from comment #43) > (In reply to Pedro from comment #42) > > with the RemoveDuplicates > > extension having compatible license with LibO it's hard to understand why > > this has been overlooked for so long now. > 0. both extensions > https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/remove-duplicates > https://extensions.libreoffice.org/en/extensions/show/remove-duplicates-fast > are licensed GPL (whatever version) and thus are *not* compatible with > LibreOffice licensing. > > 1. even if they were, that tells nothing about the source code whether it > would fit into LO core code (or even be in C++ that it could). > > 2. if those extensions fulfil the requirements, then why not use them. Eike Rathke, the developer changed the license on his github repo to MPL 2.0.
Created attachment 185837 [details] License changed to MPL2.0
The Fast extension was an improvement done by Mike Kaganski and Kompilainnen I believe. They did not change the license on their extension yet.
Am definitely missing this in Calc right now.
(In reply to Pedro from comment #47) > The Fast extension was an improvement done by Mike Kaganski and Kompilainnen > I believe. They did not change the license on their extension yet. Since our extension was based on the previous one, our license was necessarily the same. Since the old extension's license is now MPL 2.0, I am glad to re-license my work under MPL 2.0. Roman's turn.
I'm assuming this bug is about adding the command. If we also want to simplify/alter the filtering dialog - that should be a separate bug. (If I'm wrong - please change the title, clarify the bug's scope in a comment, and refer to the comment in the title)
(In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #50) The original request was to implement a feature *like Excel's "remove duplicates"*. Filters are orthogonal to that, they never remove any duplicates, only hide or do a partial copy.
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Should the function run based on values or formulas? In other words is =1+1 the same as =2?
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #53) > Should the function run based on values or formulas? In other words is =1+1 > the same as =2? Values: =2 or =1+1 and ="b" or =char(98) are the same. Only first cell must remain.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #53) > Should the function run based on values or formulas? In other words is =1+1 > the same as =2? FYI Excel does consider =2 and =1+1 as duplicates. It seems Excel only considers the cell value that is being shown, regardless of the formula. TBH I find it a bit intrusive. But I believe many users will want this feature to behave similarly to what Excel does.
The objective of Remove Duplicates is to remove duplicates of values, not formulas or calculations. There's a reason this is in the Data tab of excel and not in Formulas. Initially, keeping the scope focused on having a Remove Duplicates that simply removes duplicates of values is the most important. If Sahil Gautam is motivated to keep working on this afterwards then maybe this can be expanded upon in the future much like WPS Office did in their Worksheets module (their Excel equivalent). WPS Office has the implementation with more functionalities of Remove Duplicates.
(In reply to Pedro from comment #56) > The objective of Remove Duplicates is to remove duplicates of values, not > formulas or calculations. Do you argue that =1+2 is not the same as =2+1? Or =1+3 != =2+2. Or ="b" != =char(98). And I'm against a dialog here to fine-tune the operation. Makes the workflow heavy.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #57) > (In reply to Pedro from comment #56) > > The objective of Remove Duplicates is to remove duplicates of values, not > > formulas or calculations. > > Do you argue that =1+2 is not the same as =2+1? Or =1+3 != =2+2. Or ="b" != > =char(98). > > And I'm against a dialog here to fine-tune the operation. Makes the workflow > heavy. Being able to put a dialog where you can mark if you want to look at formulas instead of values: I think that in case of looking at formulas and not values, the formulas that are repeated changing only the relative references, should be considered the same. I think that =A3*2 in row 5 should be the same as =A4*2 in row 6. Before checking if they are equal, the relative references part should be removed from the formulas (without $ before) for checking.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #57) > And I'm against a dialog here to fine-tune the operation. Makes the workflow > heavy. Oh :-D LOL. You simply can't have this without a dialog. At all. The "duplicate" concept is *SO COMPLEX*, that you simply can't make all agree on your definition of it. See text import dialog for a similar complexity. Or sort. People might want to remove duplicates based on some subset of columns (but remove all the cells in the area). They might want formulas to make the difference. They might want to treat equality of numbers with epsilon, or use "text as shown". They might want to work by rows or by columns. They might want to shift up or right.
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #59) > The "duplicate" concept is *SO COMPLEX*... This is exactly what I mean. You cannot implement a swiss-army knife for every scenario. If the one inbuilt function is not sufficient in some _rare_ use cases, those need to be accomplished by alternative methods. But the primary workflow should be supported as easy as possible- ie. one click to remove duplicates, as the function label says.
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #60) > This is exactly what I mean. You cannot implement a swiss-army knife for > every scenario. Yes you can. And you need to. Just because we are the office suite, and not a tool for one single task. See how we *do* try to implement it in case of filtering, or text import, or file format support. See how other office suite implements it. Excel provides a dialog. Google Sheets provides a dialog. People here expect a dialog. It is simply unavoidable.
> This is exactly what I mean. You cannot implement a swiss-army knife for every scenario. If the one inbuilt function is not sufficient in some _rare_ use cases, those need to be accomplished by alternative methods. But the primary workflow should be supported as easy as possible- ie. one click to remove duplicates, as the function label says. Heiko did you even try to use this function in Excel or any other office suite before commenting? A dialog is REQUIRED if not even for the case that you need to have a "this data has headers" check mark. The button in Excel opens two sequential dialogs. Even the Calc extension requires a dialog. If you don't feel this is essential because it doesn't fit your needs please don't try to cripple something that is crucial and sorely missing from Calc. The Excel function simplifies things by referring to Remove Duplicate Values. This does not include formulas since the formula is not a value but provides you with one. Take into consideration that in Excel if you expand duplicate removal to multiple columns, you also need to select the columns that count for duplicates. If you select multiple columns, it will only remove rows when both selected columns have duplicates.
(In reply to Pedro from comment #62) > did you even try to use this function... Am I disallowed to comment if not? (No need to answer, totally off-topic; ultimately it means "implement exactly as I need")
So We concluded on "dialog needed".
(In reply to Pedro from comment #62) > A dialog is REQUIRED if not even for the case that you need to have a "this > data has headers" check mark. The button in Excel opens two sequential > dialogs. Indeed Excel opens a dialog before removing duplicates, but the dialog does not offer many options... f.i. there's nothing about how to handle cells with formulas. I understand the need for a dialog here... but there should also be a way to simply click a button and remove duplicates without a dialog disrupting the workflow, similarly to what we have with "Sort" (which has a dialog) and "Sort ascending" (no dialog needed).
(In reply to Rafael Lima from comment #65) > but there should also be a way to > simply click a button and remove duplicates without a dialog disrupting the > workflow, similarly to what we have with "Sort" (which has a dialog) and > "Sort ascending" (no dialog needed). No. This *might* turn out to be useful - when you have implemented the dialog, and then start seeing requests to "just make my Click the toolbar - then press Enter difficult sequence easier, because pressing Enter is do much tiresome" requests. It may be justified by the user demand - but not made pro-actively: multiplying UNO commands without the sizable demand is exactly the bloat that should be avoided, not the dialogs that user ask for.
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #66) > multiplying UNO commands without the sizable demand is > exactly the bloat that should be avoided, not the dialogs that user ask for. AFAIK it would be possible to have both (dialog / non-dialog) functionalities with a single UNO command, depending on the arguments passed to it. Another real use-case of removing duplicates without the dialog would be for writing macros, where all parameters of the UNO command would be provided by the macro and no dialog would be necessary. In summary... I'm in favor of having a dialog here, but it would also be cool to have the ability to run this UNO command without showing the dialog as well.
(In reply to Rafael Lima from comment #67) > AFAIK it would be possible to have both (dialog / non-dialog) > functionalities with a single UNO command, depending on the arguments passed > to it. This is exactly why I asked for an optional argument for the UNO command, when reviewed the proposed patch.
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