Seems like no one is interested in trying this, so I will attach an example file to this thread. Open it with OpenOffice.org 3 (or any version I guess, it seems like OpenOffice.org 2 has the same bug or lacking of feature) and try to answer the three silly questions in the file by clicking the option buttons. If you can make this simple test work, please tell me how you did it. Especially if it still works after saving the file, ending OpenOffice.org and then opening the file again. I really want this to work, so if anyone can tell me how to do it (if I missed something), I would highly appreciate it. If not, I guess I will write a bug report, and (if I'm wrong about the bug) maybe making a fool of myself (which you might think would be kind of fun, but wasted time for the developers)… Do you think I would be better off if I sent this to the developers list instead? I can do that, in that case. J.R. 2008/12/31 Johnny Rosenberg <[email protected]>
> View → Toolbars → Form controls > > Design mode on > > Draw a couple of Option buttons. > > I tried this with two different versions of OpenOffice.org, with different > kinds of failure… > > Version a: 3.0.0 OOO300m7 (Build:9354), OS=Mandriva Linux Free 2009.0 > > Version b: 3.0.0 OOO300m9 (Build:9358), OS=Ubuntu 8.10 > > First version a: > > Create an option button, place it in a cell. Copy it to a couple of more > cells in one row and then copy all of them to cells in another row. > > Right click a option button, select Control… > > Edit some fields, like the Linked cell field in the Data tab and some > fields in the General field. > > There is a field called Group name. Make sure the option buttons in the > same row has the same Group name, for example 1. Then set the Group name to > 2 for the other row. > > If you don't do this, only ONE option button can be selected. What you > probably want to do is to select one button for EACH ROW, right? THat's > probably what the Group names are for, at least it seems to work that way. > > When you verified that this actually works, save the spreadsheet. Then shut > down OpenOffice.org and then open the spreadsheet again. What happened to > the Group names? In my case they disappeared, which made my spreadsheet > unusable! And I had a LOT of option buttons on it! 8 rows, five in each row. > I certainly don't want to redo that job each time I open the spreadsheet. > > Now version b: > > When I try to do the same thing on my Ubuntu machine, OpenOffice.org 3.0.0 > installed from the OpenOffice.org official web site, not from the > repositories, the Group name option is MISSING! So how am I supposed to be > able to use option buttons at all then? > > Maybe I just missed something important, that's why I write to the list > before writing a bug report. > > So, to make this a question: > > How can I create a couple of rows with a few option buttons on each row, > letting me select ONE option PER ROW? Not only one option per spreadsheet. > > Thanks > > Johnny Rosenberg >
Example-Useless-Option-Buttons.ods
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