# Status report: consultancy team, week 46, 2023

**URL:** <https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/status-report-consultancy-team-week-46-2023/2194>\
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**Created:** [November 21, 2023, 10:26am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/status-report-consultancy-team-week-46-2023/2194 "2023-11-21T10:26:12Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 21, 2023, 10:26am UTC](https://forum.collaboraonline.com/t/status-report-consultancy-team-week-46-2023/2194/1 "2023-11-21T10:26:12Z")

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# Caolan

- try and finish cypress optimization regression tests
- check latest crashtesting failures  
 → ItemSet rework has triggered an assert
- have a look at apparent richdocumentscode bug
  - plausible fix looks fairly easy
  - trying to quick and easy test it though is a big of a  
struggle

- tdf#158121 fix a regression pinned on me
- unexplained updates are making it unreliable to  
add a regression test for save + multi user  
join + editing to ensure we don’t get full  
document invalidations.
- oddly doesn’t happen in a manual session for me
- but does in cypress
- debug  
 → Its the grammar checker, and cypress is en-US  
while my session is a different language without  
grammar checking  
 → turn off spell/grammar checking for the tests,  
should work on reducing/eliminating those invalidations  
if there is nothing that requires it. But not right now.  
 → get all that merged
- DeepL stopped working, seemed to be fixed in the  
desktop version, but online still not  
 → needs certs, can copy the first suitable candidate that  
exists that will work into the jail from system.
- bring 3 formula updates per keystroke to 1  
 → [https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/159424](https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/159424)
- pull wasm toolchain builder images, etc.
- build online wasm
- try using the build wasm stuff to figure out how if it works at all  
 → huh, it seems to actually work.
- try and get nextcloud working with  
[WASM headers for online · Issue #3258 · nextcloud/richdocuments · GitHub](https://github.com/nextcloud/richdocuments/issues/3258) applied  
 → doesn’t apply cleanly, simple mod to get it to apply doesn’t run  
no obvious explanation in logs  
 → but requires [https://github.com/nextcloud/server/pull/38082](https://github.com/nextcloud/server/pull/38082) so  
that’s probably why, hard to backport all this to current  
nextcloud release. Turning into a mess  
 → better off in retrospect to use a current snapshot and start with  
that
- spend some time interactively testing calc, a lot of weirdness  
getting reported recently. Do we have a problem when a user goes  
idle, either then or when a session restores?
- doubt cast that the wasm stuff is actually working the way it seems  
to work for me. But it certainly seems to be executing fine with  
the server shutdown and there are very wasm-y looking messages in  
the browser console.

# Mike

- Question: After saving signed document, signing is  
removed, but macros remain signed
  - Asked Miklos to review the chain =\> merged

- Libre Office build without ssl implementations
  - Merged the last patch (for tests)
  - Finished

- tdf#157326 - so excited to finally have a reliable reproducer
- Exporting multiple consecutive spaces to ReqIF-XHTML
  - Similar to my old [https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/41444](https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/c/core/+/41444) 😃
  - I worry if the embedded elements (like   
 and objects) can create  
newlines in paragraphs, which would break paragraphs with  
xml:space=“preserve”…
    - =\> easy for   
, but problematic for objects

# Tomaz

First-page header and footer from and to DOCX

- Moved more tests that failed to header/footer test file - now 6 tests fail  
but they duplicates (fail for the same reason)
- Refactored to use struct of bools instead of binary flags for setting  
left, right, mirroring of pages and sharing (header, footer, first) so it is  
easier to debug
- Fixing the test that has multiple page styles, which are copied and the  
last page style is not correct
  - we set sharing “correctly” (probably)
  - it is very confusing that the XText objects from properties  
“HeaderText”, “HeaderTextLeft”, “HeaderTextFirst” depend on what the sharing  
properties are set
    - doesn’t help that sometimes we need to set the a property even when it  
is actually disabled (“HeaderTextLeft”, but the “HeaderIsShared” is set to  
true).
    - need to bend backwards to get this to work

  - test is correct if the order of setting the “HeaderText” and  
“HeaderTextLeft” is reversed
    - annoying the order is important - it shouldn’t be

  - need to go deeper into the Writer code to see what is going on here to  
resolve this scenario
  - happens with the “Nightmare” use case

# Miklos

- [158081 – Fourth part of multi-page floating tables](https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158081) “Fourth part of multi-page floating tables”
  - see the bug for details