Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 46521
X-Y scatterplot: Bothersome sorting dialog
Last modified: 2013-02-24 21:22:35 UTC
When I try to make an X-Y scatterplot on the following data: 0.64 0.25 0.94 0.93 0.84 0.57 0.17 0.63 0.01 0.6 0.57 0.37 0.95 0.94 0.96 0.75 1 0.26 0.65 0.75 1 0.95 0.79 0.16 0.76 0.75 0.04 0.69 0.39 0.57 0.67 0.47 0.8 0.56 0.31 0.34 0.16 0.09 0.89 0.6 0.8 0.75 I get the message: X axis values must be sorted. Sort them now? I have to hit "no" every time, although when I'm creating an X-Y scatterplot, there is no need at all to sort data. This is very confusing -- when my mom was using OOo, she stared at the box for a long time, and had to ask me why it wanted to do that. Moreover, even if I'm creating an X-Y plot connected by lines, I don't always want to sort the data. The easiest solution, in my opinion, is to remove this box altogether. It might be nice to give the user a chance to sort the data, but as it stands, it's terrible UI design. It would be much better to have a checkbox in the Chart Wizard (when people are requesting X-Y plots). The checkbox would say, for example, "Sort by X coordinate". This is related to (and should subsume) issue 7056.
wrong component changed it to chart
Confirmed. I support this. I'll rename the summary a bit to hopefully better reflect the problem reported here. Also, this is not a defect, but "just" bad design indeed. That last suggestion sounds sensible and consistent to me: > It would be much better to have a checkbox in the Chart > Wizard (when people are requesting X-Y plots). The checkbox would say, for > example, "Sort by X coordinate". As a remark, I agree that the question of sorting is (imho) redundant für point X-Y plots ("Symbols only"), although it is necessary for other types of X-Y charts. So, for me this means that if the user has selected a "Symbols only" chart variant then the suggested checkbox should be greyed to avoid confusion.
*** Issue 8660 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
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I consider this dialog to be a bug which should be removed to avoid further confusion -> changed issue type and priority.
I will take care of this for the new chart implementation.
Issue 6236 is another example that users are misguided by this dialog.
*** Issue 7056 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
changed target to OOo 3.0
*** Issue 62538 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Changed Target to 2.x
Fixed in CWS chart2mst Milestone8. The bothersome sorting dialog has been removed and replaced by a checkbox in the charttype dialog for XY charts.
This will be specified within the Wizard or Charttype specification: http://specs.openoffice.org/chart/wizards/NewChartWizard.sxw
->Thomas, please check for useability in milestone8.
changed target to 2.3
verified
This Issue is 'Verified' and not updated in 1yr+, so Closing. A Closed Issue is a Happy Issue (TM). Regards, Andrew Cleaning-up and Closing old Issues as part of: ~ The Grand Bug Squash, pre v3 ~