Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 49096
Add 'Increment Numeric Contents' function to 'Duplicate' tool
Last modified: 2013-05-04 15:02:56 UTC
Imagine a simple engineering drawing, with a terminal pin drawn as a square, with a number in it. Now remember that typically you may want to make 60 of those, sequentially numbered, evenly spaced on the drawing. I'd like to suggest a replicate tool, similar to the 'duplicate' tool in Serif Drawplus, but with auto-incrementing numbers if required. This would be a fine bit of product differentiation. 1. Replicate selected item into grid, with spefified number of rows and columns, and specified x and y spacing. 2. Replicate ditto, but auto-increment numbering. A separate increment range for x and y might be useful, to create things like A1 A2 A3 B1 B2 B3 but it should also be possible to do things like: 1 2 3 4 5 6 or 1 4 7 2 5 8 3 6 9 3. Replicate over other co-ordinate systems, e.g isometric, radial, along a curved path.
Reassigned.
Hello? Is there anybody there?
At least I can say that I also would e happy to have this tool
I like the idea too.
For request "a" we already have menu 'Edit duplicate' as a quite nearby solution So I think everything we are talking about here are enhancements for that tool For "b" I added a Mockup for a solution with Start Value, End Value, Leading zeroes and Number of decimals. Of course other solutions are possible, for example "Increase trailing number contents of text contents by one for every copy.
Created attachment 80639 [details] Mockup