Re: How to add color scales to ODF?

2012/5/11 Kohei Yoshida <kohei.yoshida@gmail.com>:
> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Kohei Yoshida <kohei.yoshida@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > My gut feeling (totally unscientific and may be illogical) tells me
> > that wedging this information into the style section may not be the
> > cleanest approach.  I could, however, imagine we define these color
> > scales elsewhere, and reference them from the style section somehow,
> > either by name or by index.  Or just totally leave it outside the
> > style section.  Somehow I tend to think that this feature behaves more
> > like a database range, chart source range, or pivot table data source,
> > than conditional formatting.  And based on how Markus is implementing
> > it so far even in the core, the color scale data is separated stored
> > than the conventional conditional formatting data.
>
> Actually I'll take a step back from this.  The existing conditional
> formatting implementation *does* have the concept of ranges.  For
> instance, unique values condition only makes sense when it's applied
> to a range of cells.  So, color scales may be considered a logical
> extension of the conventional conditional formatting.
>
> Come to think of it, how are we dealing with these unique values,
> non-unique values conditions in ODF, which has similar range
> requirement to color scales (and data bars)?

The unique value condition is not saved to odf. See
11d375a4e719ce4836015020d2f120765672fb09

So if we find a solution here for color scales we might use the same
solution to export this to odf.

Regards,
Markus