Bug 93691 - "Update external links" does not update cells containing dates and times
Summary: "Update external links" does not update cells containing dates and times
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.4.5.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Windows (All)
: medium normal
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Reported: 2015-08-26 22:19 UTC by helpdesk
Modified: 2015-09-02 04:45 UTC (History)
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Attachments
zip archive containing two .ods files (18.47 KB, application/zip)
2015-08-26 22:19 UTC, helpdesk
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Description helpdesk 2015-08-26 22:19:42 UTC
Created attachment 118207 [details]
zip archive containing two .ods files

Overview:
It is possible to reference cells in another document. When opening a file that contains such references they can be manually or automatically updated. However, in my case updating only works for simple text data, and silently fails for things like dates and times.

Steps to Reproduce:
1) Create two empty ODS files.
2) In file A, add references to a couple of cells from file B. Save & close.
3) Open file B, change the content of those cells in file B - fill them with strings, numbers, dates and times. Save.
4) Open file A again. You will be asked if external files should be updated (depending on your settings). Afterwards, all fields will show the correct values. Save & close.
5) Go back to file B, change the content, save.
6) Open file A again. Only simple text and numbers will be updated, but not dates and times. Those are still the old values.

Actual Results:
Fields with date and time keep their old, outdated values.

Expected Results:
Everything should be updated.


The attachment contains two files that were produced after step 4), with A = test-references.ods and B = test-data.ods. (You will have to fix the paths if you don't store them in D:\)
Comment 1 raal 2015-08-31 08:59:57 UTC
Cannot reproduce with LO 5.0.5. Please, could you test with newer version? Setting bug as needinfo, set as unconfirmed again if problem still occurs in newer version. Thank you.
http://www.libreoffice.org/download/
Comment 2 helpdesk 2015-09-01 21:04:24 UTC
Everything's fine again in version 5.0.1, the bug doesn't happen. Thanks for the hint.
Comment 3 raal 2015-09-02 04:45:02 UTC
Closing