Summary: | Add the possibility to save and load custom predefined settings for Text Import (CSV) in Calc | ||
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Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | Laurent Haas <laurenthaas> |
Component: | Calc | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
Status: | NEEDINFO --- | ||
Severity: | enhancement | CC: | cno, erack, heiko.tietze, jumbo4444, rafael.palma.lima, stephane.guillou |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | Inherited From OOo | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
See Also: |
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74580 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151007 |
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Crash report or crash signature: | Regression By: | ||
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Bug Blocks: | 109239 |
Description
Laurent Haas
2023-08-23 15:22:57 UTC
Design/UX team, what do you think of user-defined presets for CSV/TSV/Text Import? Laurent, Eike and Rafael, I thought you'd also be interested. Feel free to un-CC if not. Text/CSV import is not pasting content. I understand that Laurent wants to paste special once with Formats enabled and then without, for example. Missing the program version - we have as couple of presets for the most relevant use cases, ie. Values Only, Values & Formats, Formats Only, and Transpose All, which makes me wonder what exactly is the configuration. Usually I'm all in for the proposed type of interaction but in case of this dialog it seems to be over-engineering. Actually, what bothers me the most, is to have to set each column type, the separators etc. I regularly copy/paste from various different tables that are embedded in web pages, and I have to adjust these settings every time for each table, depending on the data. And for the record, I'm currently using 7.5.7.1 (x86) [Automated Action] NeedInfo-To-Unconfirmed So we talk about the text import dialog (copy/paste numbers from some other application and use paste special). The dialog remembers the last settings but you cannot store different sets. And the column type depends heavily on the source anyway. Besides the requested improvement, which I don't like but will discuss in the design meeting, do you know the data provider (Tools > Customize: and add it to the UI of your preference)? https://libreoffice-dataproviders.blogspot.com/2021/08/data-providers.html No, I didn't know about this feature. Although my data is behind login/password access sites (I'm not sure you can automate that), I'll take a look. Thanks for your help Heiko. Hi Laurent< The idea is not new, but I do not see the bug report.. We have these CSV bugs open. https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&component=Calc&f1=short_desc&f2=short_desc&j_top=OR&list_id=1672776&product=LibreOffice&query_format=advanced&short_desc=csv%20import&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr We discussed the topic in the design meeting. The use case is clear and reasonable. But rather implementing a heavy interaction where various configurations can be stored and loaded, we suggest to just remember the last settings. Would be simple for the checkboxes, and in case of the column type it should be applied if the number matches. However, the column type allows multi-selection and to batch apply the type. And before doing a lot of effort we'd like to ask you to check this workflow first. And describe why it fails, if it does. (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #8) > But rather implementing a heavy > interaction where various configurations can be stored and loaded, we > suggest to just remember the last settings. Would be simple for the > checkboxes, and in case of the column type it should be applied if the > number matches. To think about with bug 151007 in mind. Dear Laurent Haas, This bug has been in NEEDINFO status with no change for at least 6 months. Please provide the requested information as soon as possible and mark the bug as UNCONFIRMED. Due to regular bug tracker maintenance, if the bug is still in NEEDINFO status with no change in 30 days the QA team will close the bug as INSUFFICIENTDATA due to lack of needed information. For more information about our NEEDINFO policy please read the wiki located here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bugzilla/Fields/Status/NEEDINFO If you have already provided the requested information, please mark the bug as UNCONFIRMED so that the QA team knows that the bug is ready to be confirmed. Thank you for helping us make LibreOffice even better for everyone! Warm Regards, QA Team MassPing-NeedInfo-Ping |