On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 10:36:57AM -0400, Sumana Harihareswara wrote: > Ashish, can you talk a little bit more about the current workflow that > these folks are using (the ones in the scenario you suggested)? I'm used > to seeing word processing and spreadsheet applications that can easily > export to PDF. But maybe you know of a ton of people who need to create > PDFs from list membership rosters, and right now that's a 10-step > process for them (including "import into a Google doc, fiddle with > headers, hit Export and tweak options x and y and z"), and you have an > idea for how we can make that a 4-step process.
Google Sheets (or whatever they're called this week) support a couple of functions that could hit the relevant API: IMPORTDATA [for (c|t)sv]: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093335?hl=en IMPORTHTML [for tables/lists]: https://support.google.com/docs/answer/3093339?hl=en Could either of those be an option (steer: user interface has PRODUCE A SPREADSHEET/EXPORT TO GDOCS)? > Here's a use case I ran into in December: I was editing a private > document in Google Drive and wanted to share it with about 40 people, > all of whom were on the same email thread as me. I ended up spending > many tedious minutes copying and pasting email addresses into the > "Share" dialog box in Google Drive. If I were a list owner for a > community that used Google Drive, I bet this sort of need would crop up > several times per year, and I'd wish there were an easy way for me to > import that membership roster into a Google Drive permissions list. Google Drive works extremely well with Google Groups… funny that. Part of that is why for one of the things I do, we've migrated over to Google Apps; for better integration / easier sharing. -- "what was asked of the Director in this case was not a statement of prosecuting policy but a proleptic grant of immunity from prosecution. That, I am quite satisfied, the Director had no power to give.” -- Bingham of Cornhill, R (Pretty) v DPP [2002] 1 AC 800 _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list Mailman-Developers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers Mailman FAQ: http://wiki.list.org/x/AgA3 Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-developers%40python.org/ Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/mailman-developers/archive%40jab.org Security Policy: http://wiki.list.org/x/QIA9
