Bug 48765 - Remote ref to cells in LibO-Calc spreadsheet denied in tool (function)
Summary: Remote ref to cells in LibO-Calc spreadsheet denied in tool (function)
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
3.4.6 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Cell-Reference
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Reported: 2012-04-16 04:02 UTC by Pertti Rönnberg
Modified: 2022-03-29 03:59 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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LibreOffice-Calc v.3.4.6 spreadsheet (14.41 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
2012-04-16 04:02 UTC, Pertti Rönnberg
Details
Another error in MULTIPLE.OPERATIONS (8.54 KB, application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.spreadsheet)
2012-08-16 21:31 UTC, Sören
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Description Pertti Rönnberg 2012-04-16 04:02:44 UTC
Created attachment 60055 [details]
LibreOffice-Calc v.3.4.6 spreadsheet

There is a very interesting an useful tool in LibreO-Calc 'Data/Multiple operations', the same toll is also in OpenO-Calc; in MSExcel it is called DataTable.
Some 3-4 years ago I had with that tool created a calculating process in OpenO-Calc and when I recently recreated the calculation in LibO I noticed that a flexible feature had vanished.
In the 'new' Calc the first cells of both "row input" variable G8 (of G8, H8, H9,..etc.) and "column input" variable F9 (of F9, F10, F11, ..etc.) in the tool's calculation area require a manually inserted value -- the next variables (increasing or decreasing by a difference) can be values calculated by a formula from the value in cell previous cell.

In the "old" calculation these first cells (G8 and F9) could refer to remote cells (values or formulas) which increases the flexibility and the usability of the tool remarkably.

In that same spreadsheet, outside the tool's calculation area, all cells accept remote references in a normal way.
See enclosed attachment.

I cannot think that that negative change has been done deliberately. 

My computers are (a) PC(AMD)-Win7Prof/32bit and Laptop(Intel)-Win7Prem/64bit; LibO3.4.6 in the PC and LibO3.4.5 in the laptop.

Can I myself do anything to go around the issue?

Please, answer by mail soonest.
Best regards
Pertti Rönnberg (Finland)
Comment 1 Roman Eisele 2012-05-03 10:00:10 UTC
This is a Calc issue, therefore changed the 'Component' field accordingly.
Comment 2 Sören 2012-08-12 22:52:48 UTC
Reproduced on

LibreOffice 3.5.5.3 
Build ID: 7122e39-92ed229-498d286-15e43b4-d70da21
on Windows 7 Home (64 bit)

The problem seems to be, that the MULTIPLE.OPERATIONS formula can't handle using any of the inputs of the original formula as inputs for the multiple operations. It seems as if it replaces the inputs in the formula by their new value in a "search and replace"-fashion, which gives either circular dependencies or wrong results dependent on the situation.

We will try to fix it (will be our first real attempt for a bugfix, please be patient)
Comment 3 Sören 2012-08-16 21:31:46 UTC
Created attachment 65662 [details]
Another error in MULTIPLE.OPERATIONS

During the investigation of this bug, we found another closely reltated error:

If one lets one of the input fields of one cell in the multiple operation point to one of the other multiple operation cells, we get the error for circular reference (Error 522) although there is no circular reference and the result should be welldefined.
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2015-01-05 17:52:37 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 Buovjaga 2015-01-29 11:02:58 UTC
Confirmed.

Win 7 Pro 64-bit Version: 4.5.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 784d069cc1d9f1d6e6a4e543a278376ab483d1eb
TinderBox: Win-x86@62-TDF, Branch:MASTER, Time: 2015-01-25_23:07:36
Comment 6 QA Administrators 2016-02-21 08:38:18 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 7 QA Administrators 2017-03-06 16:13:23 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2019-12-03 14:02:02 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 xyhausen 2020-03-28 20:24:14 UTC
Both attachments still show errors.

Version: 6.4.2.2 (x64)
Build-ID: 4e471d8c02c9c90f512f7f9ead8875b57fcb1ec3
CPU-Threads: 2; BS: Windows 10.0 Build 18362; UI-Render: Standard; VCL: win; 
Gebietsschema: en-GB (de_DE); UI-Sprache: de-DE
Calc:
Comment 10 QA Administrators 2022-03-29 03:59:36 UTC
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