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    Fred Bang
    Simple Spreadsheet Plug-in
    Post posted March 1, 2010 by Fred Bang
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    Topic:
    Simple Spreadsheet Plug-in
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    Request basic spreadsheet capability in the MQL.

    There is nothing more un-maintainable than the current table markup.  Our managers all love Excel.  When I ask them to interact with Mingle; especially when it involves editing a table, they resort to using email to communicate, which goes against using Mingle for collaboration.  Our engineers dislike the tables as well.  We would also like to do some simple math; like, totaling a column, generating the difference of one cell from another; e.g., Estimate-Actual='Estimate to Complete'.  I've noted a number of other posts along this same topic: sorting by clicking column headers, WYSIWYG, "once you have a table you can't do anything with it", and so on.  Perhaps we are all asking for the same thing?

    Thanks!!

    Comment

    • Andy Yates
      posted March 5, 2010 by Andy Yates

      Hi Fred --

      Have you looked at the enhanced table macro: http://community.thoughtworks.com/posts/3d8a31247f ?

      I believe this allowed mathematical operations on columns, and the colouring of cells - perhaps it could be further extended to match your requirements?

      (I note that there is a comment suggesting the macro may need tweaking to work with Mingle 3.0 too - so it may take a bit of effort to get up and running)

      cheers!

      -- Andy

    • Fred Bang
      posted March 5, 2010 by Fred Bang

      Thank you for your response.  I will investigate this macro when I can.  Unfortunately, we don't have a lot of time to spend enhancing Mingle ourselves, keeping them current with each new release of Mingle, nor do we have any experience developing macros.

      The reason for my post was more of a feature request.  Is this something of interest for the product?