xls export

[Jim Locker]

One valuable capability of Superbase was its ability to export data in a variety of different formats. Is there an XLS converter in Simpol?

[Michael]

jim wrote:
> One valuable capability of Superbase was its ability to export data
> in a variety of different formats.
>
> Is there an XLS converter in Simpol?

Hi Jim,

There is a CSV converter, and an XML converter. The problem with
producing an XLS converter is that there are simply too many formats to
support. The documentation that I pulled from the OpenOffice.org people
was over 200 pages, and that was before they released the newest
versions. CSV works quite well for this. I would be open to adding other
formats. That is one reason that the project is shipped in source code,
so that people can see how it is done.

Ciao, Neil

[Jim Locker]

Why not just lift the code from the old Superbase package and support XLS
to the same extent that Superbase did?

I agree that supporting the whole thing is not practical; I thought about
doing that and downloaded the specification. Very quickly said: "nah".

[Michael]

jim wrote:
> Why not just lift the code from the old Superbase package and support
> XLS to the same extent that Superbase did?
>
> I agree that supporting the whole thing is not practical; I thought
> about doing that and downloaded the specification. Very quickly
> said: "nah".

Could do, but it comes down to priorities and time. We always ask the
question, "What will sell more copies of the product?", and that to a
very significant degree affects design choices. Currently the next big
target is the report side.

Ciao, Neil

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