[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 132521] Show information when a range has been defined (applies to Sort, Filter...)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132521

--- Comment #8 from Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze at documentfoundation.org> ---
(In reply to Nadie Nada Nunca from comment #7)
> Why are you putting "name field" in quotes, for example? Nobody mentioned a
> "name field" before you. 

|(In reply to Nadie Nada Nunca from comment #3)
| the name of the range should appear in the Name Box

> Why are you assuming the range name would have to appear in the "column
> dropdown" as opposed to a "selection field in the sort dialog" like b.
> proposed?

|(In reply to b. from comment #4)
| and it would be right to display the range name instead of the cell labels
| as proposed in prev. comment.   

> Why are you comparing an unnamed column header in the dialog with a
> highlighted range as if those were two mutually exclusive options?

Not exclusive but complementary. 

> btw the region I was referring to seems to be named "name box"...
>...
> I guess the nomenclature is not helping.

It is a lot. I thought you talk about the sort dialog but it's the name box.
This range is different and defined per Sheet > Named Range. See also the help
at [1]. Regarding the difference between the two see [2,3]. The database range
can access different sheets while the name box is always about the current
sheet only.

[1]
https://help.libreoffice.org/latest/en-US/text/scal/01/04070300.html?DbPAR=CALC#bm_id3147264
[2]
https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/158187/closed-abandoned-calc-named-ranges-v-database-ranges/
[3] https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=10484

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