Prediction based auto complete feature for Calligra Sheets

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On 6 January 2013 21:22, jigar raisinghani <jigarraisinghani at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>       I believe that a lot of time is wasted in re-entering same data in
> Calligra Sheets if it has to be done multiple times. Eg. A name "Alex" is to
> be entered 10 times in a Sheet, then we have to type it again and again
> wherever needed. But supposing if Sheets can provide "auto complete" or
> "prediction" based entering which would suggest the data already entered
> based on the data entered earlier in the Sheet, it could save a lot of time
> and make the task easy. (I am not sure if such a thing is supported by
> Calligra Sheets presently).
>
> The above i suppose can be achieved by maintaining a vector / list / array
> of data(distinct) already entered and then performing a search & then
> suggestion. And obviously a one click auto complete. Search can be optimized
> based on size of vector/list/array.
>
> Marijn, you could tell if it could be done in a better/other way?
>
> I haven't looked at Kexi. Do they have something similar?

We don't have that, but it's great idea. Adding as a wish to bugs.kde.org :)

FYI. Kexi's implementation would be completely separate one (maybe
except completion algorithm what is a few lines of code anyway)
because there are data privacy concerns in multiuser access and the
storage is often client-server if not distributed. Kexi has also
separate tabular view and forms, so at GUI level there's also little
to share.

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