Hi Kohei, On Thursday, 2014-06-05 13:33:13 -0400, Kohei Yoshida wrote:
> In Calc, you can go to Data -> Sort, and choose to copy the sorted > results to someplace else, rather than the default option of sorting in > place. > > I'm just wondering if anyone would miss this feature if it got removed. It is even defined in ODF, <table:sort attribute table:target-range-address=...>, it is part of a <table:database-range> element, and if the source range is modified choosing menu Data -> Refresh Range will update the target range with the current sorted data. > The UI is a bit awkward, and not clear what the associated two fields > (left drop-down and right input fields) are supposed to take. Left drop-down list has defined (DB) range names, right input field takes the top-left cell address of the output range. > Also, handling this option internally would require quite some extra > effort, which, when one is trying to fix issues associted with this, > would pose a greater risk of breaking things. > > Any objections for removing this? Yes. I'm almost certain that some enterprise users actually use this feature. Eike -- LibreOffice Calc developer. Number formatter stricken i18n transpositionizer. GPG key ID: 0x65632D3A - 2265 D7F3 A7B0 95CC 3918 630B 6A6C D5B7 6563 2D3A Support the FSFE, care about Free Software! https://fsfe.org/support/?erack
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