Issue 101045 - Decimal Numbers in DBF file does not get saved
Summary: Decimal Numbers in DBF file does not get saved
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Calc
Classification: Application
Component: formatting (show other issues)
Version: DEV300m46
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2009-04-13 16:18 UTC by kyoshida
Modified: 2013-03-11 15:01 UTC (History)
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2009-04-13 16:41 UTC, kyoshida 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description kyoshida 2009-04-13 16:18:12 UTC 
When saving a Calc document as DBF file, the document loses precision.  For
instance, when opening a DBF file, changing the precision of a column that
contains floating point numbers, and re-saving it as DBF will not save the
precision information of that column.
Comment 1 kyoshida 2009-04-13 16:41:33 UTC 
Created attachment 61529 [details]
proposed patch
Comment 2 niklas.nebel 2009-06-30 11:18:20 UTC 
This would mean we have two conflicting sources of column type information - the
headers and the number formats. I don't think that's a good idea.
Comment 3 kyoshida 2009-06-30 14:11:08 UTC 
@nn: then what would be a better idea ?
Comment 4 niklas.nebel 2009-06-30 15:50:32 UTC 
Either define a new interface for the field settings, replacing the headers, or
keep them as-is.

Modifying a dbf file's table structure might well make it unusable for the
application it belongs to, so we should change it only if we're sure that's what
the user wanted.
Comment 5 Rob Weir 2013-03-11 15:01:29 UTC 
I'm adding this comment to all open issues with Issue Type == PATCH.  We have 220 such issues, many of them quite old.  I apologize for that.  

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