On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 18:44 +0200, Niklas Nebel wrote: > Kohei Yoshida wrote: > > I've also started some work on Excel 2007 style multi-string matching > > filter (or whatever people like to call it). It's basically an > > autofilter extension where you can select multiple items to display; > > rather than just one. > > > > The detail is in here: > > > > http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=77677 > > > > For now, it's just an interal data structure change with no UI. But I'd > > like to expand on this as time permits, to make it visible at UI level. > > With such changes, don't forget the file format. Filter settings are > saved, and we have to adhere to the specification about how they are stored.
Adding extra bits into the file format itself shouldn't be too hard. OTOH, I'm not sure about adhering to the specification part. I just checked the ODF specification v1.1 section 8.7.4 entitled "Filter Condition", but it doesn't specify how such multi-string values should be stored. I hope we will not have to extend the ODF itself to get this enhancement in. Given how many years (2 years so far) I've been waiting for the very old natural sort patch[1] to make it in, I'm not very enthusiastic about bringing a change request to the ODF spec. Kohei [1] http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=26565 -- Kohei Yoshida - OpenOffice.org Engineer - Novell, Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
