Re: Linking external data

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 09:26:46AM -0400, Richard Black wrote:
> What I want to do is import csv files into a number of different sheets
> and then, when the csv file changes, refresh the sheet (manually).  In
> excel, you can do this using Data->Get External Data to set up the link
> and Data->Refresh Data to refresh it.  It looks as if OpenOffice has
> something similar (although I can't get it to work...)
>
> Is there a way to use gnumeric to do something similar?

We don't support that yet.  All the hard work has been done, we just
haven't gotten around to storing the parsing options and putting in
a 'refresh' button.  It would be a medium sized project, but
wouldn't require any major changes.  Something like this should
definitely go in during 1.3.  Web queries too.
 
> BTW The new graphing functionality/interface is cool.  The X/Y graphs
> offer a variety of additional features over OO, not the least being you
> can have multiple series!

They've got a built in ray shader and don't support multiple series ??

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    and Zerbs for me.  I wonder if any of my code still exists in
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