Issue 41004

Summary:	improved importing of data from fixed-length field files
Product:	Calc	Reporter:	ktenney <ktenney>
Component:	open-import	Assignee:	spreadsheet <spreadsheet>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	issues@sc <issues>
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues
Version:	OOo 1.0.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description ktenney 2005-01-19 22:44:03 UTC

When importing a fixed-length field data file, you must manually set the column
widths, specifying the number of characters for each column.

This can be a very time consuming process for rows containing a large number of
columns.

There currently is no method to save the column widths. The next time you import
a file of that type, the process of creating a division for each column must be
repeated.

It would be wonderful if the column width definitions could be saved as a type
of template which could be associated with the textual data file for importing.

It was suggested that the template file could be an XML file. The template file
could also provide for naming the columns, specifying type ...

Comment 1 frank 2005-01-24 14:11:36 UTC

Hi,

this is a double to Issue 14675 .

Frank

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 14675 ***

Comment 2 frank 2005-01-24 14:11:51 UTC

closed double

Comment 3 lgaterarin 2010-11-11 03:30:10 UTC

Created attachment 74135