Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 77400
RPT: reselecting field to activate conditional formatting confuses
Last modified: 2013-08-07 15:45:41 UTC
0. open a new database 1. create a table with any field 2. open the report designer and bind it to the table 3. insert the fields in the design area -> inserted field and label field is selected => conditional formatting is inactive (because of the double selection), you have to reselect the single field -> that makes a pretty hidden feature of this an is not good usability
set keyword 'new_implementation'
Hmm, what would you expect? Selecting only one control? Not really a good idea, as it would kill the feature that you can move both newly-inserted controls around. Enabling the menu item when multiple controls are selected, but then open the dialog for /one/ of those controls only? That'd be a pretty bad UI ... I'm tempted to resolve this as INVALID ...
> Enabling the menu item when multiple controls are selected, but then > open the dialog for /one/ of those controls only? Why not, if the multi selection contains a data field and a label field. If you select 2 data fields the menu item should be disabled. Bye Marc
>>Enabling the menu item when multiple controls are selected, but then >> open the dialog for /one/ of those controls only? > Why not, if the multi selection contains a data field and a label > field. If you select 2 data fields the menu item should be disabled. Because that's incomprehensible magic, IMO. - enable if one data field is selected - disable if one label field is selected - enable if multiple fields are selected, with only one data field - disable if multiple fields are selected, with more than one data field Huh? Nothing an user would easily grasp, IMO. At least it would be harder to grasp than "enabled if and only if exactly one data field is selected".
The Report Designer iTeam decided that this is no show stopper for the first release, and no "should be fixed if possible at all". targeting to "not determined" for the moment.
The Report Designer iTeam decided to retargeting this issue to "OOo Later".
The first thing you after inserting the fields is to position them and as described above conditional formatting is only available when one formatted control is selected.
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after discussion with oj: there is no good way, because it always depends of what you want to make next -> close