Collabora Online Weekly Meeting #244

[darshan]

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Date: 08/01/2026

All minutes published on: https://forum.collaboraonline.com/tag/meeting-minutes

Attendees (write your name): Pedro, Darshan,Banobe, Karthik, Maya, Skyler, ?Sahil?, Buo-ren, Shardul, Mohit, Bayram, Gulsah

Testing

Staging-perf (password coolmeeting)

• Impress - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/QS9SZ3FWpAEY5tA

• Writer - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/PPiHsdf7tENmsBE

• Calc - https://staging-perf.eu.collaboraonline.com/nextcloud/index.php/s/cLCjoo399aKJ537

Share (Password - coolmeeting)

• Impress - https://share.collabora.com/index.php/s/3NHoK2nNGDyyFSE

• Writer - https://share.collabora.com/index.php/s/AHPgRCGn8EqqKsE

• Calc - https://share.collabora.com/index.php/s/mTJTmWq4rNsApLa

• Features, user flows (Anyone can add here the things they need to test)

  • [Following Feature (mostly following the editor)] [the person who asked]: what to test

1. Release Schedule

• Gokay is working on selction issue

• Blockers

• BY EOD selction and blockers wil be fixed

• Tag will be crated tommorrow

• Mobile release

  • Make patch againt mobile branch

  • Realse : next week or may next to next week

• PRs in need for attention (Please add here any PR that needs attention) => 7 still need reviews

• AI : Need to ping jeremmy and caolanm for there PR

• All Pr are related to Collabora office from Jeremy

• PRs without reviewer https://github.com/orgs/CollaboraOnline/projects/3/views/2

Title	URL	Adding reviewer
xmldump: improve help.	13744
Set max possible zoom on the document	13801	WIP → Merged
Private/gokay/compare	13842
Issue: Core side expects also a double click for a triple click event.	13921
fix navigator comments being scrolled off	13953	Added Szymon and Banobe
browser: ensure placeholder is same size as image	13980	CI is blocking, double check tests
Private/caolan/yetmorea11ytraverse	14003
cool#13988 doc compare: handle comparing with a local file as a start	14006

• Karthik

  Calc Interop Issues (XLS → XLSX):

  • Merged

    • Skip unknown functions in defined names (https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/197113)

    • Discard macros in XLSX export (https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/197200)

  • In Progress

    • Fix import of external functions from XLS (https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/197535)

    • External references has invalid index (https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/197746)

    • R1C1 Style cell references in XLSX (https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/197762)

• Banobe

  • Notebookbar: Keep checkbox labels on a single line and align with checkboxes - In review

  • Now: New View/Edit toggle polishing

    • Move edit/view button to optionstoolbox

    • Going through darshan’s PR on permission mode: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13843

  • Next: Discuss Table styles icons with Pedro

• Maya

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/13775

    • Replicated on newest builds! A change had been preventing the error

    • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13980 and https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/196571 (although there have been CI errors so should look at that)

      • Maya please check why gerrit CI fails and if it’s just some random fail just restart or ping me

      • Pedro (AI) create a new issue for the submenu

      • Still problems, such as some images duplicating and submenu tabs changing the dialog size

  • Problems with DrawingArea

    • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/14009

    • 3 problems; crashes (fixed), incorrectly deciding cursor position (fixed), flickering (happens on Firefox, not chrome)

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/13804

    • Un-tunneling field dialog, which I’ve done but currently has a lot of UI issues + related issues that I will work on after finishing the other tasks – on hold for this week

• Attila

• Chart Style Themes with Customization:
  Now I hided everything under experimental flag.
  Improved script that it make screenshots from charts, and export them as svg files.
  Chart style lists now use these images (import from svg) if possible. (except user made styles)
  Made new predefined chart styles .. it have now 30 styles .. merged them all into 1 file.. (screenshots are still not in final place)
  Refactored datafile a bit .. there is a half made refactor to make datafile much smaller.
  Fixed size-ratio problem.
  Now I check a link related regression.

• Parth

  • Now: working on CI for A11Y – recently merged PRs

    • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13716

    • http://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13851

    • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13867

    • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13913

  • Also working on A11Y guide

• Andras

• Szymon

• Fixing popups for overflow in the Notebookbar – showing artifacts on zoom

• Fixing cypress

• Reviews, trying to merge all the PRs we have

• Darshan

  • Read only mode options for collabora office

    • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13843

• Caolan

• Bayram

• (In Progress) - XLSX Scaled image width import issue (tdf#169332)

  • XML layout is fine. (xl/drawings/drawing1.xml)

  • <a:ext cx=“4352924” cy=“2743198”/> , cx is correctly read in mrShape.setSize(…)

  • But width is modified somewhere in the code. → working on it.

• Balazs

  • Calc Table styles

    • To be able to open ooxml documents that have them (correctly import them) → interop

    • Import the styles

    • Table area now with new options to change particular parameters WRT styles

    • Resizing table

    • Right now working on UI elements so the user is able to create tables.

      • Update: New PR awaiting for review: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13627

    • Pedro:

      • Would be nice to have that Table Style Options as a new contextual Tab: its done

      • Would be nice to have table style previews (Not sure will have time for that, at least not in the first approach?)

• Skyler

• Search fields in treeviews → merged! → Very useful in Calc (autofilter, search within the list) let’s test it Joao

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13739

  • https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/196726

  • https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/195719

  • All merged yesterday → let me know what you think! It affects a lot of treeviews – also keep an eye out for treeviews with duplicate search bars (we need to hide these in core)

• Quick look (iOS)

  • Looking now at making a workaround → won’t be perfect, but will let you open files from places such as calendar which don’t currently have…

• Gulsah

  • Writer Captions: Category is not stored in navigator

    • Fixed: https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/197792 (Waiting to pass CI + review)

  • Textbox pasted between two impress files is pasted as svg and formatting is altered.

    • Parent style info is missing during copy paste. It is ignored somehow. Parent style name includes “_” in the name . This may cause the bug.

    • Currently working on this.

• Gokay

  • Working on Multi page view

• Timur @Anna

• Just observing.

• Hub

  • Online

    • Trying to improve help for cell protection

      • https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/193498 (need to properly review the text, etc.)

    • Found an issue with dialog layout: the row span (vertical) is ignored

      • Patch 1: send the height property for JS Dialog https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/193501 MERGED

      • Patch 2 in online to come next

  • Odoo (ERP) integration addon

    • See https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/discussions/12330 for the first version

    • Supports Odoo 17 and 18.

• Méven

  • alias config fix:

    • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13718 (MERGED)

    • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13869

  • Checking downloaded OOXML / ODT are zip (low priority)

    • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/11962

• sahil

  • dynamic zoom was merged into main https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13801

  • wrote dev-notes as suggested, have some screenshots https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/blob/main/dev-notes/document-zoom-and-resize/index.md

  • fixed restart dialog theming issues https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169839 → https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/197700 but this hasn’t been backported to 25-04 as the branch is far behind when it comes to theming patches.. we would need to create a separate patch to fix this online (or take some time and backport the old patches first)

  • now fixing https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167395 (Autofilter Lock feature crashes with dates), back when i added lock, i was a bit scared of the dates code, so i didn’t handle that case

Mohit

• porting overview page patches to master and distro/collabora/co-26.04

• updated snapshot for writer/replace_dialog_spec.js: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13957

• working on adding tests for redlining as comments (on the side as its not the highest priority): https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/pull/13958

• will investigate the Impress drag & drop bug: mouse move & mouse up events are not sent to server when an already selected object is dragged

• will investigate the bug: currently we can’t reach the ends of the overview page (maybe its related to scrollbar limits or might require some lower zoom level to see the entireity of page)

  • Issue that came up or is related to https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/13967

• Shardul

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/12063 (merged)

  • https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues/13850 (in review) Collabora Office

    • Vivek requested changes

    • Start with browsersettings

    • For now storing in the local config folder

      • Will sync with Vivek.

• Pedro

  • Design reviews on compact view mode, The new overview feature on Impress, etc

Events

• COOL Days 2026 - 27 – 29th April 2026 - Hamburg, Germany - Collabora Office and Collabora Online - https://www.collaboraonline.com/events/cool-days-2026/

• https://cdl.rosedu.org/

• https://eventyay.com/e/8aa0a1d5

New Easy hacks: https://github.com/CollaboraOnline/online/issues?q=is%3Aissue%20state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22Easy%20Hack%22

New snapshots of Collabora office:

• Linux: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/downloads/Collabora-Office-Linux-Snapshot/

• Windows: https://www.collaboraoffice.com/downloads/Collabora-Office-Windows-Snapshot/

• Mac: https://testflight.apple.com/join/sbkwMzMt

Forum Topics

• Top forum topics from last week:

  • Nextcloud/Collabora Online - Macro to export a PDF https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/nextcloud-collabora-online-macro-to-export-a-pdf/4307/7

  • Inserting an image does not work

  • Non english spell checking in collabora office desktop linux https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/non-english-spell-checking-in-collabora-office-desktop-linux/4304/2

  • Lighter version proposal https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/lighter-version-proposal/4306

  • Installation of the new Collabora Office for Desktop in Linux arm64 https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/installation-of-the-new-collabora-office-for-desktop-in-linux-arm64/4258

Next meeting

• 08/01/2026