<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Use table control for data field listing in pivot table layout dialogue" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125837#c11">Comment # 11</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_NEW " title="NEW - Use table control for data field listing in pivot table layout dialogue" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125837">bug 125837</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:erack@redhat.com" title="Eike Rathke <erack@redhat.com>"> Eike Rathke</a> <pre>(In reply to Markus Elfring from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=125837#c10">comment #10</a>) > (In reply to Eike Rathke from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=125837#c8">comment #8</a>) > > but might be more confusing in the overall look of the dialog, > > I wonder about your concerns about confusion here. The dialog is already quite complex. Adding a table instead of the single area right in the middle of the dialog draws attention and focus on something that usually contains only one to a few entries. As for a new pivot table it's starting with empty table there doesn't make things better. > > also because it would leave the impression the two columns of one row > > would be individual items. > > How would you get to such an interpretation for the usage of rows? Because a table separates items into columns. > > Note that the pivot table layout dialog is highly customised with all its > > drag&drop across listbox widgets functionality; changing that probably > > wouldn't just be "choose another widget type". > > Would you like to offer switchable data views? What? No, I was talking of implementation. Someone would have to do that, it doesn't just arrive out of thin air.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>