Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 36672
styles concept for chart components
Last modified: 2020-04-14 09:44:23 UTC
there should be a styles concept for charts. right now oo.org offers style management for most objects - text, tables, cells, pages etcetc. unfortunately, charts don't have any of this. although it is possible to set default colours, it is not enough. sometimes there is a need to chnage font size for a title in several dozens of charts - that's not an easy task... so, styles should be available at least for : 1. title; 2. legend; 3. axis; 4. chart area; 5. data labels; 6. data series and probably other components. there also should be an easy way to set sever styles for a chart in single step - those could be container styles or some other mechanism (for example, ability to easily and fast set for a chart title, legend, axis styles) probably charts would get their own stylist cathegories (title, legend etc)
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Hi Bettina, one for you. kla
Reassigned to Ingrid.
This feature would ease the modification of multiple charts. Besides it is a typical OOo feature that is implemented in the other applications already. So we should implement this for the chart also. Details have still to be defined nevertheless. ->BM: Please take care of this Issue. Thanks.
This is a really good feature, even excel users miss. One thing that is really required is positioning and size of elements within the chart. Typical application is a presentation, where you want to compare two charts either side by side or on the next slide. Now, the effect is, if all elements are the same except the graph (due to different data) it appears as only the graph moved. So that the audience can concentrate on what is importent. (The common way to do that in excel is creating one chart and copying it and change the data sets, and everytime i want to change anything, the process starts all over again).
->dennybeyer: Sizes and Positions are not the typical properties to store in styles in OOo. If you want similar layouts, including what chart-type you have, what objects are visible and on what positions they are should be handled by a template. Templates are also a very useful thing for charts, but I think we should have a separate Issue for this. Templates are, like in the other OOo applications, documents that are used as a base for creating new documents. This issue is about styles (the entries you get in the Stylist, F11), i.e. templates for object properties, e.g., a style determines the font and background of a title object (but not its position). BTW., setting this to STARTED (which means actually ACCEPTED)
now, rereading this i myself had some problems understanding the paragraph that started with "there also should be an easy way to set...", so i'll try to clarify :) it should be possible to change separate parts of the chart by styles, like title/legend. i had though this could be implemented by creating separate styles for all components and a 'container' style that would set all of these for a chart, similar to paragrpah/numbering styles integration. now, maybe it would be better to have single cathegory "chart styles" and contain it only the changes to the style it is based on (just like it currently works with other styles)
Would also be useful to be able to change the default colors of series, background... of a new diagram like it is possible to do it for the default template document in writer !
Changing type to Feature. Seems more appropriate
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This feature would save a lot of time when formatting many similar charts. I can see that most posts here are a bit old. Is there any progress made recently?
still no activity?
I came across this issue while I was trying to find if there is a way to change the thickness of lines in a graph with multiple data series... (64822 seems to be a related issue). As a researcher I often have to plot several data sets and this sort of unified style settings for charts would be very welcome.
great idea! I think it's an little bit like the "User-Defined" option in Excel (in Custom Types/Chart Type). If I'm right someone maybe should add some more suitable Keywords for the Voting.
The ability to specify default colors, font sizes, marker types, etc. as a single "style" would save IMMENSE amounts of time when trying to format a large number of charts to work in a consistent format (e.g. for a report). I've spent many hours clicking individual subtitles and axes in order to increase the font size so that my Calc charts are readable when pasted into writer.
I'm normally very happy with Open office. I found this issue a little disappointing though. The first comment was made in Nov 2004 and the last was made in April 2010. So this very useful feature has been ignored for more than five years. I know that I should probably contribute with some programing or hard coding instead of complaining. I also realize that is not an easy task, but I think many people will be extremely happy once this feature is accomplished. I normally have to produce a large number of charts with similar features in font, font size, axe color and thickness, transparent background, etc. Changing those things in every singel chart I produce is time consuming, and having the hability to do it in some sort of "default chart properties" will be really helpful. So if my vote helps, here I go.
This feature would be very useful for long reports. Any progress?
It would be really nice to have this feature. I have 20 charts and I have to click at every single title, legend and data label to make them look the way I want.
I have the same problem : "It would be really nice to have this feature. I have 20 charts and I have to click at every single title, legend and data label to make them look the way I want." It's important, when you have a corporate design, to use it for the diagram !!! Regards
Any activity or progress on this issue? I'll add my votes if that helps, though after 6 years I'm not sure anything will change.
*** Issue 12581 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***