Bubble chart in spreadsheet

Disclaimer: You are free to reuse it “as-is”, on your own responsibility and without any guarantee whatsoever. No rights can be derived from, successfully or unsuccessfully, completing the steps outlined below.

Steps

Part 1:

  • Create a new spreadsheet
  • Insert values 1, 2, 3 into first column
  • Insert values 10, 20, 30 into second column
  • Insert values 15, 5, 30 into third column
  • Add a bubble chart: 1st column is X-axis, 2nd is Y, 3rd is bubble
  • Change bubble color into red
  • Save and validate the file

Part 2:

  • Open it using another implementation
  • Check if the chart is displayed
  • Add value 4 in column A, 40 in B, 10 in C
  • Update the chart
  • Change bubble color into green
  • Save the file and reopen in another program

Files

Please follow the file name convention outlined in the faq. Note that the PDF files can be included as a previewing aid, but uploading the ODF files is much more important.

Original

Reopened /modified

Tracker

A list of known issues. Implementations not listed here may or may not work as expected. Results may vary depending on user settings and computer environment. Use at your own risk.

Nr Status Write Read Comment
001a Open Gnumeric 1.10.16 MS-Office 2010 Error message “Excel found unreadable content…”. The spreadsheet can be opened and the values are shown + chart axis, but the bubbles are not shown. This is believed to be fixed in Gnumeric 1.10.17
001b Open Gnumeric 1.10.16 MS-Office 2010 SP1 Error message “Excel found unreadable content…”. The spreadsheet can be opened and the values are shown + chart axis, but the bubbles are not shown. This is believed to be fixed in Gnumeric 1.10.17
002 OK Gnumeric 1.10.16 LibreOffice 3.4.1 OK
003 OK MS-Office 2010 Gnumeric 1.10.16 OK

Analysis

(Andreas) Gnumeric was writing a chart:categories element for the axes of the bubble chart, not prohibited but also not used for bubble charts

scenarios/20110715/bubblechart.txt · Last modified: 2011/07/15 10:21 by bart.hanssens
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