Renaming columns breaks joined cells

[DanTemple]

If you have a table where you have joined some row cells, the XML syntax uses the column names to indicate which cells are straddled.

Now if you rename a column in the colspecs, the straddle breaks, because the tool does not also rename all the references to that column name. See below where "newname" has replaced "c3".

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<tgroup cols="3">

                     <colspec colname="c1" colnum="1" colwidth="1.0*"/>

                     <colspec colname="c2" colnum="2" colwidth="1*"/>

                     <colspec colname="newname" colnum="3" colwidth="1.0*"/>

                     <thead>

                        <row>

                           <entry/>

                           <entry namest="c2" nameend="c3"/>

                        </row>

                     </thead>

                     <tbody>

                        <row>

                           <entry/>

                           <entry/>

                           <entry/>

                        </row>

                     </tbody>

                  </tgroup>

best regards

[Radu]

Hi Dan,

Thanks for the report, we know about this limitation and we'll update this forum thread when the issue gets fixed.

Regards,
Radu

[Radu]

Hi,

Starting with Oxygen 19.1 when you rename a column using the Attributes view in the Author visual editing mode, all references to that column's name will be updated.

Regards,
Radu