Gnumeric 1.1.8 - Does it do Pivot Tables yet ?
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Now that gnumeric has already gotten to 1.1.8, I wonder if gnumeric
has acquire the ability to do "Pivot Tables" ?
rapskat
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And yet you use XP.
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GeneralPF
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>> On 23 Aug 2002 09:42:33 -0700, ap...@softhome.net (***) wrote:
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>>>I tried gnumeric quite some time ago. It was pre-1.0.0 time.
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>>>Now that gnumeric has already gotten to 1.1.8, I wonder if gnumeric has
>>>acquire the ability to do "Pivot Tables" ?
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>> I wouldn't trust my finances to some beta level software.
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> And yet you use XP.
I fail to see how XP is beta software.
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Frank
> On 23 Aug 2002 09:42:33 -0700, in
> comp.os.linux.advocacy,
It is the thingy persons in business use to analyse data. I doubt if you
would have any use for it.
rapskat
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And I fail to see how it isn't.
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On 23 Aug 2002 09:42:33 -0700,
what's a pivot table?
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Matthias Warkus
*** <ap...@softhome.net>:
> I tried gnumeric quite some time ago. It was pre-1.0.0 time.
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> Now that gnumeric has already gotten to 1.1.8, I wonder if gnumeric
> has acquire the ability to do "Pivot Tables" ?
ISTR it has, but I'm not quite sure.
mawa
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Frank
: : I tried gnumeric quite some time ago. It was pre-1.0.0 time.
: :
: : Now that gnumeric has already gotten to 1.1.8, I wonder if gnumeric
: : has acquire the ability to do "Pivot Tables" ?
LOL - I guess the short answer is NO !
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> On 23 Aug 2002 09:42:33 -0700,
> *** <ap...@softhome.net> wrote:
> > I tried gnumeric quite some time ago. It was pre-1.0.0 time.
> >
> > Now that gnumeric has already gotten to 1.1.8, I wonder if gnumeric
> > has acquire the ability to do "Pivot Tables" ?
>
>
> what's a pivot table?
Sorry if I have to resort to examples from Excel to explain it -
Webpages:
http://www.nulook.uneb.edu/train/tutorial/Spreadsheets/advexcel/pivottab.html
http://lacher.com/toc/tutpiv.htm
http://howto.lycos.com/lycos/series/1,,69+35046,00.html
http://www.sqlteam.com/item.asp?ItemID=5741
http://www.ucas.ac.uk/figures/fps/pivot.html
http://www.cpearson.com/excel/pivots.htm
Pdf:
https://ereports.osu.edu/assisthr/WebHelp/
Using_Insight/jobaid_pivot_table_tips.pdf
And here's one that is related to Oracle Express -
http://www.orafaq.com/msgboard/warehouse/messages/434.htm
Hope that above examples help !
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webpage has some explaination:
Linux Spreadsheets
http://vip.hex.net/~cbbrowne/spreadsheets.html
Go to section 1.3, and we see the following:
"Pivot tables are roughly analagous to database views, and are
doubtless
essentially copied from the functionality of Lotus Improv."
So my question still stands - if gnumeric 1.1.8 has no "Pivot Tables"
as one of it's features, isn't it time for one ?
Jody Goldberg
Sadly not. I'd like to add them, but will probably not have time in
this development cycle. The two main features that are still
missing in gnumeric are pivots and auto-filters. The latter will
probably make it into 1.2, but without some help, eg work on a pivot
guru, I will not have time before the freeze.
Jody Goldberg
Beta level ? While Gnumeric did have a long beta (close to a year).
The 1.0.x release is definitely usable in a production setting.
While we may lack some features, we're extremely stable and
numericly significantly more accurate.
Jody Goldberg
> as one of it's features, isn't it time for one ?
We're currently focusing on other features eg pango and multibyte
character support in cells, improved XL export, expanded finance
functions. Pivots and auto-filters are the last big missing
features, but without some additional man power I doubt we'll get to
them until next year.
We'd welcome some assistance in adding them. Anything from
supplying a coherent set of test cases for the importer, to
documentation of how they are supposed to work. Not all
contributions need to be code.
GeneralPF
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>> On Fri, 23 Aug 2002 14:24:16 -0400, rapskat assert()ed:
>>> Error Log for Fri, 23 Aug 2002 13:59:45 +0000: segfault in module
>>> "sewer_clow" - dump details are as follows...
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>>>> On 23 Aug 2002 09:42:33 -0700, ap...@softhome.net (***) wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I tried gnumeric quite some time ago. It was pre-1.0.0 time.
>>>>>
>>>>>Now that gnumeric has already gotten to 1.1.8, I wonder if gnumeric has
>>>>>acquire the ability to do "Pivot Tables" ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I wouldn't trust my finances to some beta level software.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> And yet you use XP.
>>
>> I fail to see how XP is beta software.
>
> And I fail to see how it isn't.
Even though XP has bugs, it wasn't released to be tested. It was intended
to be a final product.
Are you saying Red Hat Linux 7.2 is a beta product since bugs are still being
found?
The Ghost In The Machine
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Jody Goldberg
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on Mon, 26 Aug 2002 04:52:13 GMT
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Bear in mind that 'sewer_clown' is one of our, erm, favorite
trolls, whose motto appears to be a variant of:
"If it doesn't flit, it must be shit". :-)
Colorful butterflies flit.... :-)
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Thank you, Jody, for your reply !
Please do not misunderstand me, I am NOT demanding that the Pivot
Table feature to be put into Gnumeric immediately.
I do understand, and very much appreciate, what all of you have done.
All of you have worked hard, often silently, and without any hope of
public acknowledgement.
I do understand that Gnumeric _does_ have a schedule - pango,
multibyte character support in cells, improved XL export, expanded
finance functions, etc. comes to mind. And I am really happy that you
guys haven't forgotten about Pivot Table.
It's all right for me if the Pivot Table is scheduled for 1.2.x (or
even 1.3.x) release. What many of us need is a bug-free implementation
of Pivot Tables, and since it's now near the end of Gnumeric's 1.1
series, I think Pivot Tables could benefit more with more testing
opportunities in the 1.3.x cycle.
I am certainly no "guru" in Pivot Tables, but whatever I can help out,
I will be more than glad to do so.
In the meantime, if you want to get a "roundup" of "Pivot Table
gurus", to send you test cases, methinks the best way to do so is for
the Gnumeric people (you guys with authority) to make some
annoucements, maybe through slashdot and/or lwn, where there are lots
of people visiting.
Anyway, thanks again for your reply !
Sincerely,
Lee