Bug 96978 - updating charts in a spread sheet I created for my own use.
Summary: updating charts in a spread sheet I created for my own use.
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.4.3.2 release
Hardware: Other macOS (All)
: medium normal
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Reported: 2016-01-09 05:49 UTC by Rodger Peabody
Modified: 2016-10-10 11:13 UTC (History)
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The subject spread sheet (325.62 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
2016-01-11 19:48 UTC, Rodger Peabody
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Description Rodger Peabody 2016-01-09 05:49:04 UTC
my spreadsheet contains 5 charts. I recently revised three of them to add a new data series. I inserted the revised charts using the provided chart wizard. Two of my charts remain unchanged. There is no problem with the unchanged charts.
The new charts do not update correctly.

The old charts track five data series. The new charts track six data series. Five of the data series in the new charts duplicate five data series in the old charts. Only one data series in the new charts is new information.

One data series is common to all of the five charts. It is a date. I format that date day month, year (i.e. 8 Dec, 15). The date information is moved from a line at the top of my spread sheet to the first column in each of five data tables. This is accomplished by an update macro I wrote for this related purposes. I've used this macro in various iterations of my spreadsheet with reasonable success over the last several years, dating back to Open Office.

Here is the problem. When I run the macro, after all of the new data is properly in place, everything appears to function correctly; that is until I look at the x axis data on the charts. On the two old charts the new date appears and functions correctly. On the new charts the date information is displayed as a five digit date code. (i.e. 42303 instead of the corresponding date in October 2015).

I've tried a number of work arounds for this problem. All of them are a bit cumbersome. Some of them were a complete waste of time. I finally hit on one that is only somewhat inconvenient and yields a satisfactory result.

I go to the data table that one of the new charts tracks. I copy date information from an earlier cell in the table and paste in place of the latest date. Then I correct the data to reflect the latest date. That eliminates the five digit code from the x axis, changing it to the date format I prefer. The I copy and paste the new data to the data table for the other two affected charts. At that point the problem is corrected until the next time I update the spread sheet.

Please excuse the length of my description Of the problem. I prefer to be thorough.
Comment 1 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2016-01-09 13:45:11 UTC
Please attach a test file (without any confidential data) and describe a clear step by step scenario to reproduce the problem.

Best regards. JBF
Comment 2 Rodger Peabody 2016-01-11 19:48:57 UTC
Created attachment 121862 [details]
The subject spread sheet
Comment 3 Rodger Peabody 2016-01-11 20:00:08 UTC
(In reply to Jean-Baptiste Faure from comment #1)
> Please attach a test file (without any confidential data) and describe a
> clear step by step scenario to reproduce the problem.
> 
> Best regards. JBF

I have attached a test file sans confidential information. The version of Libre Office I am currently using is 4.4.3.2 release. If you need any further information, please place a request here. I intend to track progress on this bug every weekday.

Best Regards, RLP
Comment 4 GerardF 2016-01-11 21:33:03 UTC
You mix text and dates.
In you "date" column, you have text values ((i.e. 8 Dec, 15) at the beginning of the column and true dates at the end.

First 2 charts have X axis have scale type as text, others set at "automatic".

First 2 chart may have been created wuth an old OOo version (older than 3.2 I think). In older version, line chart do not support date scale.

Don't mix text and numeric data. It always lead to surprising result...
Comment 5 Xisco Faulí 2016-09-11 21:58:40 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 6 Xisco Faulí 2016-10-10 11:13:50 UTC
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