There should be care in naming extensions and avoiding collisions with 
OpenFormula and other extensions (implementation- or user-defined).

It might be good to review the specification of OpenFormula in ODF 1.2 for all 
of the functions defined there.  There may be OpenFormula functions of interest 
that are not yet implemented in LibreOffice Calc and it would, in those cases, 
be useful to implement them as part of the full set.

Also, there needs to be agreement on how extensions not provided for in ODF are 
identified.  I recommend against using org.openoffice simply because there 
would need to be some sort of joint arrangement to manage that as a shared 
namespace.  Not a bad idea, but absent that it might be useful that one use a 
unique name prefix for LO-defined extensions (as opposed to user-defined 
functions).

This is all to avoid collision of names among implementations when LibreOffice 
Calc documents are interchanged with other ODF-supporting spreadsheet 
implementations. For user-defined extensions, one might want to have a naming 
policy so those extensions don't collide as well.


 - Dennis E. Hamilton
   tools for document interoperability,  <http://nfoWorks.org/>
   dennis.hamil...@acm.org  gsm: +1-206-779-9430  @orcmid



-----Original Message-----
From: Stefan Weigel [mailto:stefan.wei...@bildungskreis.org] 
Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 23:10
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] I want to add formulas and functions to calc

Hi,

Am 23.10.2011 04:35, schrieb Alberto Sanchez:

> Is there a way that the community can benefit from this?

>>> so my question is, how can I add that function
>>> so that many others in my position can benefit from them?

Make an Extension and put into the Extensions Repository.

http://www.libreoffice.org/features/extensions/
http://extensions-test.libreoffice.org/

If you do not know how to create an extension and if you do not want
to learn it (which isnĀ“t difficult), you could post the Code and a
description of your new function and hope that some other old man
will pick it up and create and publish it as an extension.

Stefan


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