Bug 54217

Summary:	No connectors on drawing toolbar in Writer and Calc
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	Lekow <lekow>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium	CC:	axel.niedenhoff, educmale, jbfaure
Version:	3.6.0.4 release
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Lekow 2012-08-29 16:03:31 UTC

It is impossible to draw using connector lines in Wriler or Calc. They are absent on the drawing toolbar and cannot be added via toolbar customization.
Please, add them because it is very convenient to draw flowcharts directly in Writer.

LO version 3.6.1.2. 
In 3.6.0.4 it was the same.

Comment 1 Jean-Baptiste Faure 2012-09-01 09:38:27 UTC

Very old problem, before the start of LibreOffice. The Writer's graphic layer is not the same as the graphic layer of Draw.

Workaround : start to drawing connectors in Draw then copy&paste in your text document. Now you can modify the connectors in Writer even if the connectors tool is not available in the drawing toolbar.

AFAIK, a long term project is to unify the graphic layers of Writer and Draw.
Set as enhancement.

best regards. JBF

Comment 2 Lekow 2012-09-01 16:39:22 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> Workaround : start to drawing connectors in Draw then copy&paste in your text
> document. Now you can modify the connectors in Writer even if the connectors
> tool is not available in the drawing toolbar.

Thank you, but it is not usable now because of the strange connectors behavior on document zoom. I have added the new bug ( bug 54355 ).

Comment 3 educmale 2012-10-23 13:20:35 UTC

1.  Can you provide a work around for -editing- the connectors after they are moved to Calc?

     I create various connectors from Draw, and copy/paste the collection into Calc.
     Then, I copy/paste the connectors to build-out the graphic in Calc
     But, there is no way to amend any connector traits, once in Calc

2.  Any idea when the long term project to unify the drawing tools will be done?
2a.  Is the plan to include/unify across -all- modules?  (this would make sense...)
2b.  Which version will introduce the unification?

Comment 4 educmale 2012-10-24 14:02:09 UTC

Note:  

Connectors copied to Writer land as paragraph anchored.   

Bug 54355 is actually narrower:  it exists when the connector and other objects are paragraph anchored; the behavior disappears (for me) when the objects are set to page anchoring.

Comment 5 educmale 2013-07-06 02:00:50 UTC

FYI -- for the bug's readers....

The missing connector button(s), and presumably the drawing layer unification, are not yet available as of 4.0.4

Some modification of the connectors appears possible when copied from Draw into Calc, using the Drawing Formatting Toolbar.   I have not figured out how to modify the endpoints (arrow formatting and etc.) in Calc, directly.   There are no arrow tools, there.

I am not modifying the version information for the bug.

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