Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Sort Bug ?

Tom Davies <tomcecf -AT- gmail.com>
Fri, 27 Mar 2015 12:04:07 +0000

Hi :)
Err the fading dominance of MS formats is good but the "dominance" part is
really annoying and causes a lot of unnecessary agro.
Regards from
Tom :)


On 27 March 2015 at 12:01, Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi :)
I think you meant that the background behind Tim's answer is not
acceptable.  His actual answer seems very honest, truthful and useful.  It
is not a voice of arbitrary authority but one of wisdom and counsel.  One
problem with emails is that we don't hear the tone of voice nor any clues
from body-language.  Of course a lot of us in IT don't process that sort of
stuff in face-to-face communications either but that's another story.

On this mailing list we have absolutely no control over what the devs do
nor how this project is run and we are almost never asked for our opinions
on what might be a good way.  We can only give answers to try to help users
figure out how to use the suite as it is, and maybe grumble about oddities
and issues related, such as the fading dominance of the MS formats.  We are
free to join other lists such as Discuss@ and the social media channels
but most of us on this mailing-list are only interested in just helping
people directly.

Several answers in this thread have been 'brutally' honest with no false
apologies or soft-pedalling the truth or giving it any spin (err, except
with a blatant cough rather than my usual sarcastic quotes ' ).  From my
own experience i suspect many of the answers so far have been answered
off-list by one of the "higher ups" berating them and possibly threatening
to ban them from the lists.

To me Tim's answer seems a bit heroic, not quite on the scale of children
in any war-torn area, but still admirable.  He makes a stand for truth and
honesty and that might have got him in trouble already.


However just because something is not done quite the same way as it's done
in MS Office or/and is not intuitive to some people does not necessarily
make it wrong.

The main problem here, in my opinion, is that it wasn't easy to figure out
and documentation may not have been easy enough to get to.  Of course now
that we have had this answer on the list it will probably crop up again
quite soon and we have a quick answer ready.

Regards from
Tom :)






On 27 March 2015 at 10:38, Pertti Rönnberg <ptjr@elisanet.fi> wrote:

Tim Lloyd's comment is not acceptable!
This is not a question of a (unpaid) programmer's likings or priorities
-- this is a serious question of Libre Office's liability,
because both of the the sort buttons in the toolbar (asc & desc) give
wrong results as well as there is no clear explanation why and how the sort
command
in Data=> sort must be "customized" if yopu want a correct result.

A spreadsheet program that cannot be fully trusted is totally worthless!!

These "bugs" are a result of very bad planning and an obviously total
lack of control & testing of the programming before it was accepted
as a feature in Calc and the complete LibreOffice suite.

Neither is this really not a "game" -- anyone who goes for to programming
something for LibreOffice must feel the responsibility for the result -- as
well as
the controlling team (if any?).

The sort feature is a very important feature why these faults have to be
corrected immediately

   the function of both the sort buttons set to "normal" sort of a

selected range

   all selections set to blanc in Data=>sort=>options

Pertti Rönnberg




On 26.3.2015 2:12, Tim Lloyd wrote:

Hi,

while LO does allow a certain amount of customisation, at this point in
the game this particular menu option can not be changed.

This then becomes a feature request, either

 * change the default
 * allow the sort options to be customised

Once a feature request is submitted it is really up to a (unpaid)
programmer to step forward and take on the action. I can't see this being
high on the programmer's list of priorities but it may be deemed an "easy
hack" which an aspiring young person could field.

Cheers




On 26/03/15 10:58, Richard VINCK wrote:

Tim Lloyd
Thank you for pointing this. Indeed, unticking it works then correctly.
But it should be the default, and should remain unticked. (and should
be more visible, as it is hidden in the Option tab)
Can we make it as default?

On 2015-03-26 00:42, Tim Lloyd wrote:

A quick look at the doco reveals...

Range contains column/row labels
– omits the first row or the first column in the selection from the
sort

Untick this box and you are sorted.

Cheers

On 26/03/15 10:06, Wade Smart wrote:

Hmm I just tried to sort going through the
sort menu and I still cant get it to sort
properly.

It does numbers just fine though.
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Wade Smart <wadesmart@gmail.com>
wrote:

**cough cough** .. feature understood.
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 6:02 PM, Michael Tiernan
<michael.tiernan@gmail.com> wrote:

On 3/25/15 6:53 PM, Wade Smart wrote:

I have 4.2.7.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 and you are correct, sort is not
working.

When I reported it, I provided a great deal of information about it
and
was told "Not a bug" and "works for me" by those who have the power
to
close bugs.

My argument was/is that if you use the sort arrows (as you have done
here) then you're asking/telling LO to sort the selected rows with
no
options.

Instead it was deemed correct that instead, LO assumes the first
cell
found is used as a label regardless of any other settings.

This "feature" (*cough*) cost me a number of hours of work to get
around
and avoid.

The argument is that since you can use the "Sort" menu option and
change
this behavior *for each sort occurrence* then there's a work around
for
the "feature" and we should be happy with that.

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