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Feature testing for OOo 3.0

Here are the features and enhancements, which were integrated in OOo 3.0 (Beta). All the listed issues are announced in the release notes for the developer snapshots since SRC680m242 to DEV300mX. These list is more technical orientated and isn't a release note for OOo 3.0 (Beta). This list could and should be used for testing and checking the new features in general or for translation purposes.

What's new ?

Component : Chart

• 366 : Select 'Range' for error bars
  • Description : For y error bars in chart there is an additional function "standard error" available. Standard error is also known as "standard deviation of the mean"
  • Feature Announcement : http://graphics.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=features&msgNo=209
  • Specification : http://specs.openoffice.org/chart/ErrorBars.odt
  • Test case specification : http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/51811/TCS_Y_Error_Bars.htm
  • CWS : chart20 integrated in SRC680m248

• 1163 : title for secondary y axis
  • Description : With the “Insert Title” dialog for charts, a user can decide which title objects in a chart are shown, and what content they have. There is a main title, a sub title and axis-titles for the axes.
  • Feature Announcement : http://graphics.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=features&msgNo=205
  • Specification : http://specs.openoffice.org/chart/ChartInsertTitleDialog.odt
  • Test case specification : http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/51470/Title_for_secondary_axes.htm
  • CWS : chart19 integrated in SRC680m245

• 16776 : starting angle for pie charts - rotation of pie charts
  • Description : The angle position of the first piece of a pie chart can be changed now. Thus the pie charts can be rotated around their center.
  • Feature Announcement : http://graphics.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=features&msgNo=204
  • Specification : http://specs.openoffice.org/chart/PieChartOptions.odt
  • Test case specification : http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/51477/TCS_starting_angle.htm
  • CWS : chart19 integrated in SRC680m245

• 37823 : offer clockwise direction for pie charts
  • Description : It is possible now to switch the direction of pie charts. Thus the user can choose whether the pieces of the pie are drawn in clockwise order or in counterclockwise order.
  • Feature Announcement : http://graphics.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=features&msgNo=203
  • Specification : http://specs.openoffice.org/chart/PieChartOptions.odt
  • Test case specification : http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/51479/TCS_Pie_rotation_direction.htm
  • CWS : chart19 integrated in SRC680m245

• 44768 : Ease editing regression lines (trendlines)
  • Description : The former "Insert Statistics" dialog and the tab "Statistics" of a data series allowed adding, modifying and deleting of trendlines, mean value lines and error bars. This was split up. Insertion of trendlines works via "Insert/Trendlines..." and "Insert Trendline..." in the context menu of a data series. Deletion works with the Delete key and "Cut". Insertion of mean value lines works analogously via "Insert/Mean Value Lines" and "Insert Mean Value Line" in the context menu. Insertion of Error Bars still works via a tab-page of the data series. The former "Statistics" tab is replaced by a "Y Error Bars" tab that only contains the controls for error bars.
  • Feature Announcement : http://graphics.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=features&msgNo=206
  • Specification : http://specs.openoffice.org/chart/Trendlines.odt
  • Test case specification : http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/51528/TCS_Trend_and_Mean_Value_Line.htm
  • CWS : chart19 integrated in SRC680m245

• 85796 : Add Standard Error as Function for Error Bars
  • Description : It is now possible to select cell ranges from a spreadsheet or a writer table to be used for error bars in charts. For charts that have their own data, the error values can be entered into the data table.
  • Feature Announcement : http://graphics.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=features&msgNo=208
  • Specification : http://specs.openoffice.org/chart/ErrorBars.odt
  • Test case specification : - -
  • CWS : chart20 integrated in SRC680m248

Component : Base / Database Access

• 67987 : let the "Address Book Data Source Wizard" use a roadmap
  • Description : With the integration of CWS odbmacros2, the "Address Book Data Source Wizard" (the one which helps you created a database document for your address data) will use a roadmap (a left-hand-side control displaying all steps of the wizard). (this is only a cheap side effect of some other change which happened in this CWS.)
  • Feature Announcement : http://dba.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=features&msgNo=221
  • Specification : --
  • Test case specification : --
  • CWS : odbmacros2 integrated in DEV300m2

• 69740 : API: Add ability to find which table(s) or query(s) are currently selected in the main Base window
  • Description : The controller of the database application window now supports the com.sun.star.view.XSelectionSupplier interface. The method getSelection return an Any which contains a Sequence of NamedValue. 1st NamedValue: Name = "Type" Value is an integer with values from com.sun.star.sdb.application.DatabaseObject which indicates which kind of object is currently selected. 2nd NamedValue: Name = "Selection" Value is a sequence of strings which are currently selected in the view. Value = Sequence < Strings > === selected names
  • Feature Announcement : http://dba.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=features&msgNo=213
  • Specification : --
  • Test case specification : --
  • CWS : dba24e integrated in SRC680m245

•  : Database / Insert Menu, new menu item
  • Description : The table data view of a table now has a menu entry Insert->Record. This command inserts a new row at the end of the data set.
  • Feature Announcement : http://dba.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=features&msgNo=222
  • Specification : --
  • Test case specification : --
  • CWS : dba30a integrated in DEV300m2

•  : Database / Edit Menu / Delete Record
  • Description : The table data view of a table now has a menu entry Edit->Delete Record. This command deletes the current selected row (this excludes the row when inserting a new one).
  • Feature Announcement : http://dba.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=features&msgNo=223
  • Specification : --
  • Test case specification : --
  • CWS : dba30a integrated in DEV300m2

Component : Drawing

• 68103 : add native table support for impress/draw
  • Description : Impress and draw now supports a table shape, please see specification for details; http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/fearless_and_adventuresomely_testers_searched
  • Feature Announcement : http://graphics.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=features&msgNo=210
  • Specification : https://so-web.germany.sun.com/EIS2/changesmails.EditFeature?Id=4191
  • Test case specification : --
  • CWS : impresstables2 integrated in SRC680m245

Component : Framework

• 83624 : Extensible help: Adding content to the Contents tree
  • Description : Target of the extensible help project is to support help content inside OpenOffice.org extensions. The extensions' help content is provided together with the OpenOffice.org installed help content. The help index can be extended by extensions. The implementation supports extended tool tips and accessing extension help content by pressing F1 in UNO dialogs and menus.
  • Feature Announcement : http://framework.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=features&msgNo=277
  • Specification : http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/help/ExtensibleHelp.odt
  • Test case specification : http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/51659/Help_for_extensions.htm
  • CWS : ab45 integrated in DEV300m1

• 84309 : remove pkgchk
  • Description : The pkgchk tool has been deprecated in favor of the unopkg tool a long time ago, and for quite some time pkgchk has been nonfunctional (only giving an error message that unopkg should be used instead): finally remove it completely.
  • Feature Announcement : http://framework.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=features&msgNo=275
  • Specification : - -
  • Test case specification : - -
  • CWS : sb83 integrated in DEV300m4

• 85963 : Implement Startcenter
  • Description : OpenOffice.org is separated into single applications like Writer, Calc, Draw and Impress, which could be started directly from the operating system start panel. If the OpenOffice.org executable is started directly OOo shows the start module, always shown if no document is loaded. The start module has no value for the user on start-up, but keeps OOo loaded if the last document has been closed and a new one is generated.
  • Feature Announcement : http://framework.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=features&msgNo=276
  • Specification : http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/start_center/start_center.odt
  • Test case specification : - -
  • CWS : aquavcl05 integrated in DEV300m2

• 86209 : ODF 1.2 Migration
  • Description : With the next major version after OpenOffice.org 2.x, OOo will support ODF 1.2 in addition to ODF 1.0/1.1. This specification describes the migration from ODF 1.1 to ODF 1.2.
  • Feature Announcement : http://framework.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=features&msgNo=279
  • Specification : http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/odf/odf_1-2_migration.odt
  • Test case specification : http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/51931/TestCaseSpecification_odf12_calc.htm; http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/51944/odf12_tcs_impress.htm; http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/51963/odf12migration-testcase.html; http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/51964/odf12migration-wordprocessor-testcase.html
  • CWS : odfversion12 integrated in DEV300m3

• 86352 : Add options button from print dialog to printer setup dialog
  • Description : The Print dialog in Calc gets extended by a new possibility to define what part of the spreadsheet has to be printed. In the current version the print setting "print only selected sheets" is located in the Options dialog of the Print dialog and got defaulted for OOo 2.3. This raised several new issues around print output is empty when the corresponding table was not selected in the spreadsheet and the setting itself was overseen/unknown in the Options dialog.
  • Feature Announcement : http://framework.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=features&msgNo=278
  • Specification : http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/printing/Print_Dialog.odt
  • Test case specification : - -
  • CWS : nativeprintdlg01 integrated in DEV300m2

• 86649 : Alien Format Warning needs new text
  • Description : For the ODF 1.2 migration we have to change the text of the Alien Format Warning box.
  • Feature Announcement : http://framework.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=features&msgNo=279
  • Specification : http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/odf/odf_1-2_migration.odt
  • Test case specification : - -
  • CWS : odfversion12 integrated in DEV300m3

• 86683 : Registration page needs different text (SO <-> OOo)
  • Description : Product registration is important to be able to get reliable numbers of the installed product base. OOo and SO users have different motivations to register themselves, therefore the registration dialogs are different for these two products. Furthermore a registration reminder is introduced using the online update
  • Feature Announcement : http://framework.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=features&msgNo=281
  • Specification : http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/registration/product_registration.odt
  • Test case specification : http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/51932/StartUp_wizard.html
  • CWS : newregdlg integrated in DEV300m3