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. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Libreoffice-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-bugs
