Greetings AutoIt community, Out of curiosity I did an internet search for the LibreOffice UDF that MLipok and I are working on, and came across a post in the German AutoIt forum that mentioned it, (https://autoit.de/thread/88484-formeln-in-eine-csv-datei-schreiben/?pageNo=1) It seems the user was rather overwhelmed with the UDF, mostly the many files, etc., and didn't know how to go forward in solving their problem with it. So I am wondering if you any have input on how I would help this kind of issue? I had hoped the examples would help, but I understand they could be overwhelming with the sheer number of them, plus, as of yet, they aren't very detailed. Some of the ideas I did have was to have a general example for each "element" of LibreOffice, i.e. Writer, Calc, Base etc. This would help show how to get started (hopefully). Another thought was a simple how-to file to include. Maybe make a "lite" version? Perhaps there are too many functions? Maybe its should only automate the basics? LibreOffice isn't quite as simple to automate as MS products are, so it was my aim to help make possible as much as possible. I would be interested to hear any thoughts/ideas for consideration. Thanks, and best regards,

Some 3 month ago examples were added for what I see. Following the examples should show what each function does. I don't use spreadsheets but if I needed to, I'd have to learn that, ... in a hurry. And automate it even faster ( all this while clueless "inexperienced" ) I don't think that there is a way around "the learning curve". Maybe making wrapper functions ala "Word user defined functions" would help for the _LODoc_* functions 🤔 I believe that if something is overwhelming, it is so for the uninitiated, and not because is poorly thought-out. Ok, let's look at me. I push for forking and wrote some wrappers/ideas yet, many find it overwhelming/too much/too difficult. What can I do 🤷♂️ Nothing. Each will gain understanding as they gain experience with the concept(s) and the solution(s). Yeah. Nothing you can do other than examples for the functions and that you did.

[Solved] Complex UDF simplification?

By donnyh13
October 27 in AutoIt General Help and Support

https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/213289-solved-complex-udf-simplification/

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Go to solution Solved by argumentum, October 27

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genius257

Posted 12 hours ago

1 hour ago, donnyh13 said:

Do you mean that each ReadMe would give an overview of the purpose of each group of examples? i.e. "These examples help automate data input into cells etc..."?

Yes but also working as a overview for navigation for example. Adding a description to each folder link. This is of-course not necessary, but may improve the user experience overall, despite the extra work.