Re: external links

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Sat, Jun 05, 2004 at 02:42:03PM +0530, Joshua N Pritikin wrote:
> We are using gnumeric 1.2.10 on debian.  At our client's side, the
> accounting folks have made some Excel spreadsheets using external
> links between the files.  Our client wants to convert all the Windows
> machines to LTSP thin clients.
>
> We tried to import the spreadsheets into gnumeric but the external
> links seem to get lost.
>
> I searched the list archives. I found one message about external links
> which was complaining that they are awkward (whatever that means).
>
> Is this a known bug?  Any ETA on a fix?

It is somewhat supported but not in all cases yet.  This is one of
the last areas of core xls import functionality that needs an
overhaul.  If you can get me a sample file I'll see if it is
solvable in 1.2 or not.