https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162968

--- Comment #18 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Tomaz Vajngerl from comment #17)
> (In reply to Eyal Rozenberg from comment #16)
> > We just agreed that PivotCharts, even now, do not reflect the data in a
> > single way. XY-scatter charts reflect it one way, Column charts reflect it
> > another way. Thus, creating by-row rather than by-column data series charts
> > is not a deviation from "the" way; it's just yet another way.
> 
> No, that's the representation of the data that is different.

"Reflection", "representation" - you're splitting hairs. Transposition is
literally a reflection. 

> It reflects the
> data in a way that row fields are (main) axis data and column fields are
> each its own data series. That stays the same independent on the type of the
> chart.   

That's the bug. There is no reason to force this being the case. A table can be
read as columns or as rows - whether it's a PivotTable or not.


> OOXML interoperability issue between LO and MSO (and other editors that can
> read OOXML and support PivotCharts). To reflect the data in a different way
> would need a LO specific extension to the standard (or a solution to put the
> PivotTable internal to the PivotChart - which brings this back to the first
> possible solution I described).

The fact that MSO or OOXML don't support something, and we add support for it -
is not an interoperability issue. If we spreadsheets with the feature set
common between both apps, or LO and OOXML, were to have problems going in one
direction or the other - that would be an interop issue.

But indeed, if OOXML cannot represent this, such a PivotChart could not be
saved to an OOXML (without an LO extension). And now that you raise this
question - I suppose we also have to ask whether ODTs will have a problem with
this.

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