Hi,
These are almost exactly the reasons why want to export to spreadsheet:
* people want to print tables
* people want to reformat tables
* people want to share the data (e.g. sending an email, post results on
the webpage) - for this purpose a PDF would also be good enough often.
For the long run we also want a reporting tool (something like Jasper)
for printing forms/statistics/charts/diagrams/map views directly from
QGIS. But I know this is complex ...
Andreas
On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 11:55:40 +1300, Alister Hood 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.
Alister
_______________________________________________
Qgis-developer mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
--
--
Andreas Neumann
Böschacherstrasse 10A
8624 Grüt (Gossau ZH)
Switzerland
_______________________________________________
Qgis-developer mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
