Hi Tony, Thank you for your comments. Tobias beer <https://tobibeer.github.io/tb5/#convertable> has made a converter can accept csv or Excel file and create tables based on that! By the way having a two direction tools is a good idea!
Regarding math operators, I agree with you to do such sophisticated calculation in spreadsheet apps. Here I just tried to have some a summary row shows some basic statistics like mean, sum, max, ... I believe we should keep it simple and I think Dynamics Tables are getting complex and complex as I add more features. Best Mohammad On Saturday, February 1, 2020 at 7:00:31 AM UTC+3:30, TonyM wrote: > > Mohammad > > Especialy once there are simple maths within a table something I have for > my client is a separate form of the same table which is a csv with header > row of column names and each row as a comma delimited record. > > If we could have a copy to clipboard button that copies any table to csv > users can take data generated in their tiddlywiki database and paste into a > spreadsheet app for more complex calculations. > > I and my business clients do this kind of thing a lot. One trick is to > past the csv into its own data worksheet and have a second report or > analysis sheet that does a lookup to the data sheet. It is then simple to > update the spread sheet with current data without touching the report or > analysts sheet. > > Perhaps one day I will make it possible to re import the csv to tiddlywiki > and apply changes. > > While I like the idea tiddlywiki can do everything it makes sense to let > it delegate functionality to built for purpose tools like excel. > > With a set of calculations available in tables we reduce the need to go > external to tiddlywiki but to be able to quickly go external allow people > to use the best tool to do the job, and leverage user skills in their > existing tools. > > I would like us to adopt this approach more often. > > Regards > Tony > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/ba897238-0505-4f71-bebc-1b51f90a4c29%40googlegroups.com.
