Hi Alister On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 12:55 AM, Alister Hood <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > Just a couple of thoughts: > > As others have mentioned, many people want to export to Excel mainly for > formatting and printing, perhaps with some added calculations. The > ideal would be to improve formatting and printing in QGIS so that this > isn't necessary. > Spreadsheets aren't particularly great for it anyway, and doing it in > QGIS would mean that you wouldn't need to export and format again if the > data is updated. > I imagine this could eventually be quite a lot of work - perhaps it > would be a good idea for a Summer of Code project. I guess it would > include work on: > - table formatting > - number formatting (also see #4426, although that is not about > specifying how data in an existing column is displayed). > - virtual columns (similar to the new expression based labelling). > - easy breaking of tables across multiple pages, page numbering etc. > > Some people also like to export data to Excel, modify it, and bring it > back into GIS. Like someone said, this is a recipe for headaches, if > not disaster. I think it would be great if we could identify any > further enhancements to the attribute table and the field calculator > which would help people not to do this. >
I recently used a python library called xlwt for a web project to generate spreadsheets. I think it should be fairly straightforward to create a python plugin that would allow you to do it. I'm not familiar with a C++ library for writing excel spreadsheets, but I guess there is one out there somewhere. Regards Tim > Alister > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer -- Tim Sutton - QGIS Project Steering Committee Member (Release Manager) ============================================== Please do not email me off-list with technical support questions. Using the lists will gain more exposure for your issues and the knowledge surrounding your issue will be shared with all. Visit http://linfiniti.com to find out about: * QGIS programming and support services * Mapserver and PostGIS based hosting plans * FOSS Consulting Services Skype: timlinux Irc: timlinux on #qgis at freenode.net ============================================== _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
