Re: [Semediawiki-user] Tables providing CSV export

[Krabina B. <kr...@kd...>]

oh yes! Very good idea!

Regards,
Bernhard

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> Behalf Of Asheesh Laroia
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 8:34 PM
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> Subject: [Semediawiki-user] Tables providing CSV export
> 
> 
> When I issue an <ask> query and get back a table, it would be 
> nice if I 
> could also offer the contents of the table as a CSV to readers of the 
> website.  That way, after selecting the data they want, they 
> can copy it 
> and play with it in whatever desktop software they like.
> 
> It would be nice if, say, on mouse-over of the table, a small icon 
> appeared that looked like rows in a spreadsheet, and that 
> clicking that 
> took one to (say) a Special page that is passed the ask query as a 
> parameter; and it responded with a (correct) CSV file that 
> renders the 
> same query.  With the MIME types set right, it would then 
> open in e.g. 
> OpenOffice.org Calc.
> 
> Anyone else want this sort of feature?  (-: I'm trying to 
> drum up feeling to 
> encourage the main developers to write it, see.)
> 
> -- Asheesh.
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