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Bug 128534 - Unable To Access URL Actions From a Referencing Cell
Unable To Access URL Actions From a Referencing Cell
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 81718
Product: Gnumeric
Classification: Applications
Component: General
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Other All
: Low enhancement
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Assigned To: Jody Goldberg
Jody Goldberg
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-12-04 17:24 UTC by Donald D. Henson
Modified: 2009-12-30 22:45 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Donald D. Henson 2003-12-04 17:24:54 UTC 
When I set up a reference to a cell on another sheet, or the same sheet for
that matter, that is set up to go to a URL (or a mailto: which is what I
really want), I would like to be able to click on the referencing cell and
have it take the same action as the referenced cell would take if I clicked
on it directly.

P.S. This is my first bug report. Be gentle.
Comment 1 Jody Goldberg 2003-12-15 06:47:20 UTC 
An interesting idea, but I'm not clear on the semantics.
What would happen with expressions that involve the link ?

=cell_with_link+1
Comment 2 Donald D. Henson 2003-12-15 15:54:50 UTC 
That's a good question. I've never tried to use a URL in any kind of
cell formula. I suppose that one way would be to handle URLs as
absolute references but I don't know if that would be appropriate in
all cases. Can you suggest a formula where that would not work?
Comment 3 Andreas J. Guelzow 2009-12-29 20:32:27 UTC 
I think we should extend CELL such that CELL("url",address) returns the url attached to the cell at address.

Then if hyperlink were working correctly (see bug 81718) =hyperlink(CELL("url",address)) would cause this cell to have the same url action as the cell at address.
Comment 4 Andreas J. Guelzow 2009-12-30 22:45:39 UTC 
I have added GET.LINK (in analogy to GET.FORMULA). So in theory =hyperlink(get.link(address)) would attach the link from address to the current cell.

Of course thanks to bug 81718 this does not work yet.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 81718 ***