Bug 530683

Summary:	Series autoincrement does not work with text
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Heherson Pagcaliwagan <azneita>
Component:	openoffice.org	Assignee:	Jonathan Blandford <jrb>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	11	CC:	caillon, caolanm, ddumas, dtardon
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Description Heherson Pagcaliwagan 2009-10-24 05:43:10 UTC

Description of problem:
Autoincrement does not work when filling a series containing text.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.1.1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Fill a column with the following:
A1
A2
A3
2. Highlight the three cells containing the above.
3. Right click on the lower right corner of the lowest cell, then drag down.
  
Actual results:
A dialog box will be presented with "Fill Series" options. None of the options work with text-number combinations. 

Expected results:
The series should autoincrement like:
A1
A2
A3
A4
A5
.
A100

Additional info:
This feature actually works on Ubuntu so I'm wondering if we can have the same feature on Fedora.

Comment 1 David Tardon 2009-10-26 09:42:21 UTC

Should be quite straightforward to backport that.

Comment 2 Heherson Pagcaliwagan 2009-10-30 05:08:02 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Should be quite straightforward to backport that.
I'll just wait then for the updates. Thanks.

Comment 3 David Tardon 2009-10-30 08:58:24 UTC

dtardon->herson: The backport itself was straightforward, indeed, but then I've found out that it's currently impossible to get that to work with the Fill Series dialog. I've patched it for simple scenarios like that one you presented, but it gives absolutely wrong results for more complicated ones (in other words: my code works if you don't touch anything in the dialog and just click OK). I'm working on it.

Comment 4 Caolan McNamara 2009-11-09 13:06:18 UTC

Red Hat reviews and scrubs its code for intellectual property issues. Our
approach has always been conservative, i.e., if there is any question, resolve
the issue or remove the code.  Red Hat recently implemented a number of changes
in its distribution of OpenOffice to address such issues.  These changes should
not be construed as implying any immediate intellectual property problem;
rather, they have been implemented to assure that no such immediate problems
arise. While implementing these changes in our own distribution of OpenOffice,
we have also made them available upstream to the OpenOffice project.

Comment 5 Caolan McNamara 2009-11-09 13:06:48 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 192948 ***