https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38948

--- Comment #7 from [email protected] 2012-06-15 01:58:35 PDT ---
I have the same problem! I want to use L.O. for teaching, but this bug really
gets in the way, and I keep going back to MS Office...

(In reply to comment #2)
> (In reply to comment #1)
> > I vote for changing the importance of this bug to be at least "normal" for 
> > two
> > reasons:
> > - it would be critical if after entering a formula in a cell, instead of the
> > formula, only the outcome (number) is saved to file - which is basically 
> > what
> > happens with the solver objective and constraints.
> > - this particular bug prevents (business) schools/ universities from 
> > teaching
> > Libreoffice instead of Microsoft (and has been ignored by OpenOffice for 
> > about
> > three years).
> 
> I second this vote. I'm a college student currently going through operations
> research subjects which require linear programming as part of its syllabus, 
> and
> so far LO Calc has been a big help in solving cases on integer programming
> we're being given in class. However, the lack of a save function shocked me
> when I discovered that my previously lengthy model in one particular problem
> all but disappeared when I reopened the file at a later time.
> 
> This sounds like much more than a feature request. It's functionality that's
> missing, because no one in their right mind would create anything more than 
> the
> most basic of LP models using Calc knowing that they would have to rebuild it
> EVERY SINGLE SESSION.
> 
> I read in a similar bug post (32063) that implementing it would require
> changing the ODF spec. I propose for the solver to simply not save the model 
> in
> the same *.ods file as the spreadsheet from which it is built, but rather in a
> separate file. I find this to be an elegant solution, since the implementer of
> the language solver would use to save the data is unconstrained to pick from
> any of the plentiful (and open) LP languages out there, with my own preference
> of GAMS. It would furthermore be highly portable, meaning it could be loaded
> onto any other spreadsheet and run independent of the original basis of the
> model.

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