Calc Conditional Formatting Help button

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#1

This is what I did:
1) Click the Format menu and then Conditional Formatting....
2) Click the Help button.

With new installations as of today (version 3.3.2), I'm getting unexpected
behavior in Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7.

In Windows 7, the help button takes me this non-existent webpage:
http://help.libreoffice.org/scalc/2568554500?Language=en-US&System=WIN
http://help.libreoffice.org/scalc/2568554500?Language=en-US&System=WIN

In Ubuntu 10.10, the help button opens the local LibreOffice Help, but it
does not go to a Conditional Formatting section. Other help buttons in the
program open up the local help and go to a relevant section. I checked if
there is a section on Conditional Formatting, and there is.

Can others confirm this inconsistent behavior?

#2

On Windows 7 with the Help Pack installed, the Conditional Formatting Help button takes me to the local Help index page. It is necessary to enter "conditional formatting" or scroll to it in the index, but the material is there. That is, I have the same behavior that you describe for the Ubuntu 10.10 behavior.

I suspect that you need the separately downloaded Help Pack for the Windows 7 install.

- Dennis

PS: I also think you have found a bug. The English page is apparently at http://help.libreoffice.org/Calc/Conditional_Formatting and I have no idea how specific builds shall continue to connect to release-specific pages (if that is intended) with conditional selection on language. It looks like what you encountered is still in transition from the OO.o implementation.

#3

Ok. So the bug is that in the Windows 7 release, the Help button link is
wrong if the help pack is not installed, right?

I'm willing to help fix this. Do you know where to start?

Thanks,
Glen

#4

On the Mac LO 3.4, Format >Conditional Formatting brings up the sub menu.
Click on Help in the Menu Bar and Libre Help is greyed out.
However, Press F1 for Help and you go directly to that Conditional
Formatting page in the Local Help.

I hope this helps, Pun intended.

Tink.

#5

I tried the Help button in the Conditional Formatting dialog using LO
3.4-rc1, and the bug is fixed in Windows 7.

#6

I can confirm the Ubuntu behavior, I am not sure why it occurs. I can
not confirm the Windows behavior.

#7

Should be this a documentation problem?

I confirm the same behaviour in Windows 7
*Helmar Fernandes

#8

I confirm that.

Installation LO 3.4.0-rc1 for Win32 in a Windows Vista VM has the correct on-line files be found (general help and the Conditional Formatting Help Button) when the Help Pack is not installed.

#9

Hi,

This is what I did:
1) Click the Format menu and then Conditional Formatting....
2) Click the Help button.

With new installations as of today (version 3.3.2), I'm getting unexpected
behavior in Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7.

In Windows 7, the help button takes me this non-existent webpage:
http://help.libreoffice.org/scalc/2568554500?Language=en-US&System=WIN

In Ubuntu 10.10, the help button opens the local LibreOffice Help, but it
does not go to a Conditional Formatting section. Other help buttons in the
program open up the local help and go to a relevant section. I checked if
there is a section on Conditional Formatting, and there is.

Can others confirm this inconsistent behavior?

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I can confirm the Ubuntu behavior, I am not sure why it occurs. I can
not confirm the Windows behavior.

Here, in Slackware64, under LibreOffice RC1 3.4, I tested and worked properly.

Luiz Oliveira

#10

Hi,

I confirm that.

Installation LO 3.4.0-rc1 for Win32 in a Windows Vista VM has the correct on-line files be found (general help and the Conditional Formatting Help Button) when the Help Pack is not installed.

In my case, I always install the help pack.

#11

Oddly, I am unable to get the local help to be used. I thought it might be because the VM had no Java JRE installed, but I did that and repaired both LO3.4.0rc1 and the LO3.4.04c1 Help Pack, but I still only get the online web pages. Hmm ...

- Dennis

#12

** Reply to message from "Dennis E. Hamilton" <dennis.hamilton@acm.org> on
Tue, 24 May 2011 08:25:24 -0700

Oddly, I am unable to get the local help to be used. I thought it might be
because the VM had no Java JRE installed, but I did that and repaired both
LO3.4.0rc1 and the LO3.4.04c1 Help Pack, but I still only get the online web
pages. Hmm ...

I had that happen when I first installed LO and told the Help File install to
put the help files somewhere else than the default. Same result. Finally I
reinstalled and let it put the files where it wanted and it worked fine after
that.

#13

That's interesting.

I notice that there are two Program Files directories now, one for LibreOffice 3 and one for LibreOffice 3.4 and I can't find anywhere that the Help has been installed.

I think I will uninstall everything and try reinstalling 3.4.0rc1 from scratch. I don't recall it putting the help files in any particular place, but I clicked through pretty quickly. I do use a different place for where the installer is told to unpack its files (I hate having them on my desktop, because they need to be kept around, so I put them in a shared folder on a file server).

- Dennis

#14

All right. I removed LibreOffice 3.4.0rc1 and the Help Pack. Then I reinstalled them from scratch. (The Java JRE installation was retained.) Everything works.

The Help Pack does work properly for Calc Conditional Formatting with LibreOffice 3.4.0rc1 for Win32 (x86 on Windows Vista in a VM on Windows 7). I previously confirmed that the links to on-line Help in 3.4.0rc1 are also correct on Windows.

- Dennis