Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 69422
ease access to data series properties when point is selected
Last modified: 2013-02-24 21:20:45 UTC
Testing chart milestone8. When creating a line-type chart clicking the datapoints one gets the option of inserting statistics (error bars). If one left clicks on a data-point, then object properties, oneis not allowed to modify the statistics. the statistics can be modified only if one right-clicks a datapoint with no point selected, or with insert / statistics. This can be quite confusing. Noting is lost if the statistics option is always accessible.
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Hi olinart, do you want to make different error bar settings for different data points (maybe one point with percentage error bar, the next point with constant value error ... )? Or do you want to have the series settings offered in the data point properties dialog?
Thanks for your attention, Iha. >Or do you want to have the series settings offered in the data point properties >dialog? Exactly. At present it is offered only if very specific elements are selected first. Your first option is not required. I'd be hard put to imagine a use for it.
I see. Thanks for the fast response :-). I think it would be to confusing to mix the series properties and the data point properties within the data point properties dialog. But maybe something different could help. I have the feeling that you find it to difficult to get the dataseries properties dialog, is that right? Would it help you to additionally offer the data series properties in the contextmenu while having selected a single data point? Thanks. Ingrid
Hi, Ingrid. Yes you have identified the problem correctly. It seems that left-clicking a data point sometimes highlights all the series points then right click "object properties" gives the data series dialog, while sometimes a single point is highlighted and then right click "object properties" gives the data points dialog. The dialogs look very similar so it's easy to confuse how to access these dialogs. The dialogs look very similar except that only series has statistics. I guess an access from the data point dialog to data series dialog would do the trick.
Ok. The selection works as follows: When a series is not yet selected and you click on it somewhere then the series gets selected. Now when the series is already selected and you click somewhere on a point in this series then the single point gets selected. If you now want to go back to the whole series you have to select something different first. To ease the access to the dataseries properties I now would suggest to offer them in the contextmenu in addition.
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The context menu was reworked completely within CWS chartuseability01. All details can be found in the specification: http://specs.openoffice.org/chart/ChartContextMenu.odt Especially the data series properties dialog now is also offered within the context menu of a single selected data point. It is also possible to add/format and delete trend lines, y error bars, data labels or mean value lines directly from the context menu of a single point.
Sophie, please verify this enhancement in CWS chartuseability01. Create a chart and select a single data point (a first click does select the series and a second click does select a single point in this series). Open the context menu of that single data point. You should find entries to format the whole data series - like 'Format Data Series...', 'Insert Y Error Bars...' and the like in addition to the possibility to format the single data point. The complete list of entries for the context menu is given in the specification: http://specs.openoffice.org/chart/ChartContextMenu.odt Thanks! Ingrid
Verified in CWS chartuseability01 - Sophie
Attaching TCS Chart Context Menu - Sophie
Created attachment 64616 [details] TCS Chart Context Menu
Verified in OOO320m2 - Closing - Sophie