Re: [libreoffice-design] Term for "structured references"

Hi Regina

Draft Wiki Page created as work in progress

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/CalcTableRef

Cheers
Olivier

On 7/31/24 10:57, Regina Henschel wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Microsoft has for its "Excel table" a feature "structured references".
> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/using-structured-references- 
> with-excel-tables-f5ed2452-2337-4f71-bed3-c8ae6d2b276e
>
> When opening an xlsx-file, the "Excel table" is converted into a 
> "Database range", see section "Data Ranges" in the Help.
> https://help.libreoffice.org/25.2/en-US/text/scalc/guide/ 
> database_define.html
>
> LibreOffice can use the "structured references" and they are retained if 
> saving to xlsx-Format. They are converted to ordinary range addresses, 
> when saving to ODF. Feature request for ODF is in bug 162088.
>
> But there exist no help on this feature, see bug 162275.
>
> I want to start a Wiki-page for it. For that I need a term for this kind 
> of addressing parts of a database range. Suggestions? I hesitate to name 
> it "structured references" because a "Excel table" is not the same as 
> our "Database Range", there are some slight differences how they work 
> and because I don't know whether we will get trouble with Microsoft, 
> when we name it the same.
>
> Kind regards,
> Regina

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