Bug 130851 - When allowed to auto-update external links, Calc accesses them without need
Summary: When allowed to auto-update external links, Calc accesses them without need
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: perf
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Blocks: Calc-External-Datalink
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Reported: 2020-02-21 16:48 UTC by Mike Kaganski
Modified: 2024-05-11 03:16 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Attachments
An XLSX with an external link in named range, which is not referenced anywhere (10.16 KB, application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet)
2020-02-21 16:48 UTC, Mike Kaganski
Details
unusedExternalLinks screenshot (50.21 KB, image/png)
2020-02-21 18:20 UTC, Oliver Brinzing
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Description Mike Kaganski 2020-02-21 16:48:02 UTC
Created attachment 158084 [details]
An XLSX with an external link in named range, which is not referenced anywhere

The attachment contain no data on a single empty sheet; the only thing that is defined in the document is a named range that references a file on a network share with Windows UNC name "\\path\to\file.xls" (and an invalid reference there). The range is not used anywhere in the document, it's only defined.

When the document is opened, LO shows an infobar telling that automatic updates of external links are disabled (with default settings). The problem is that if the update is allowed, soffice.bin tries to access the network path.

This is a performance issue: if the share is unavailable, the request to access the file must time out before LibreOffice can proceed. Given that the data in not referenced anywhere, the network access is useless.

The time is spent in Content::isFolder (ucbhelper/source/client/content.cxx).
Eike: do you think it's possible to not try to access not referenced data? I suppose that could also speed up documents that link to local files, too.
Comment 1 Oliver Brinzing 2020-02-21 18:20:19 UTC
Created attachment 158089 [details]
unusedExternalLinks screenshot

(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #0)
> This is a performance issue: if the share is unavailable, the request to
> access the file must time out before LibreOffice can proceed. Given that the
> data in not referenced anywhere, the network access is useless.

with 

Version: 7.0.0.0.alpha0+ (x64)
Build ID: aa58c380894dd384f6ce1efc62b3932136f2f477
CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 10.0 Build 18363; UI render: default; VCL: win; 
Locale: de-DE (de_DE); UI-Language: en-US
Calc: threaded
[Allow updating]

i get a msgbox after [Allow update] within ~ 3 seconds
Comment 2 Buovjaga 2020-05-10 14:37:37 UTC
Setting to NEW per description
Comment 3 QA Administrators 2022-05-11 03:33:08 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2024-05-11 03:16:50 UTC
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