Hi Kohei, On Thursday, 2014-06-05 13:33:13 -0400, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
In Calc, you can go to Data -> Sort, and choose to copy the sorted results to someplace else, rather than the default option of sorting in place. I'm just wondering if anyone would miss this feature if it got removed.
It is even defined in ODF, <table:sort attribute table:target-range-address=...>, it is part of a <table:database-range> element, and if the source range is modified choosing menu Data -> Refresh Range will update the target range with the current sorted data.
The UI is a bit awkward, and not clear what the associated two fields (left drop-down and right input fields) are supposed to take.
Left drop-down list has defined (DB) range names, right input field takes the top-left cell address of the output range.
Also, handling this option internally would require quite some extra effort, which, when one is trying to fix issues associted with this, would pose a greater risk of breaking things. Any objections for removing this?
Yes. I'm almost certain that some enterprise users actually use this feature. Eike -- LibreOffice Calc developer. Number formatter stricken i18n transpositionizer. GPG key ID: 0x65632D3A - 2265 D7F3 A7B0 95CC 3918 630B 6A6C D5B7 6563 2D3A Support the FSFE, care about Free Software! https://fsfe.org/support/?erack
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