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sr #105597: Export ledger values to spreadsheet

Submitter:  Greg Chicares <chicares>
Submitted:  Wed 27 Sep 2006 01:26:57 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Output Status:  None
Priority:  1 - Later Severity:  1 - Wish
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Open

Tue 28 Oct 2008 10:57:01 PM UTC, comment #1: 

It would be preferable to generate this tab-delimited text
file before Ledger::AutoScale() is called.

Greg Chicares <chicares>
Group administrator
Wed 27 Sep 2006 01:26:57 PM UTC, original submission:  

Export ledger values to spreadsheet. This is useful in markets
that require extensive customization of illustrations. It can be
done today, but only as a side effect that was tacked on to
printing in a great hurry:
(1) the steps are unintuitive
 - type 'idiosyncrasy_spreadsheet' in 'Comments'
 - run illustration
 - Print | preview [close preview: want only the side effect]
(2) the result shows the lack of deliberate design
 - the file always has the same name
 - older file instances are overwritten
 - if the file is already open, then no new file is written
(3) any change in file layout requires changes in downstream
spreadsheets that depend upon it.

Analysis:

(1) The file is created in
  void Ledger::write(xml::node& x) const
which probably should be refactored as part of this task
  http://savannah.nongnu.org/support/?105591
anyway. This facility may be inappropriate for some users, so it
is probably best to place it on a new home-office-only menu.

(2) Existing function
  unique_filepath()
could be used to create the file with a unique name.

(3) Users should be encouraged to use range names in spreadsheets
they create, to insulate themselves from changes. This file is a
simple tab-delimited representation of the 'ledger' object, with
column headers that are suitable for forming range names. When a
new column is added, it should be available in this file.

Greg Chicares <chicares>
Group administrator

 

(Note: upload size limit is set to 16384 kB, after insertion of the required escape characters.)

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