> 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).
Actually, if virtual columns and #4426 were implemented, changing the number format displayed in existing columns isn't completely necessary - you could just put an expression using the proposed number format function in a virtual column, and hide the original column. > - 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
