Hi Paul, Imagine you are writing a pricelist module for your ERP customers. customer ask you whether it is possible to have a website for his business. In this case customer doesn't like to have an integration of webshop with ERP. just a simple website. He can handle his orders offline. But he asked you whether it is possible to publish the pricelist on the website. Then he can save time to answer to the customers. compare this solution to the solution of downloading csv format and exporting it to Excel and create a new pricelist to send it to the customer. another possible way is to connect directly to the Tryton server that just came into my mind. but customer wants to have a simple website not a complex one. running python in his website is another job you should do which has many limitations from business prespective ! Sometimes he has his own website. But current solution. you export it to Google Spreadsheet. After that you can put another sheet which can read from the first sheet to show all the data more beautiful (showing charts and graphs based on the product prices for example) Then you can get a link for the embedded code and you can start a nice collaborative job based on it. Some features that you can use it without writing codes : 1. Embed the spreadsheet in any HTML page (Whenever you export this pricelist this page will show the latest pricelist ! ) 2. Start collaborating on it using online chat and online editing feature which has been provided by Google. 3. Push it back to The pricelist later, Imagine you want to change the pricelist. (First upload it into Google Docs, Start collaborating then start a command to import it back into your ERP system as a new updated pricelist !)
Now imagine a company doing business using some services like Forex, (i mean businesses with product pricelist which has been changing every moments) They will be happy to hear about this feature of your Development. these are only few features that came into my mind now. Of course other modules can benefit from it. >From developers point of view we can do everything like downloading as a csv format and then export it to google apps or Excel. My view it is not beautiful from a business point of view. I think in business we always have to find a way to play with information more automatic. and they always ask us to implement every aspect of their business automatically. future we will have poor developers! I think business mans will ask them to write a software to search and find a business idea and start selling it online and sent the profit to them. without any clicks ! It is not really future, We have software robots in forex to do something like this, and online marketers have a common phrase "auto pilot" they believe they are successful only when they finally understand how to put everything to work automatically (using feature above for example). Therefore i think form business point of view even small changes like this might worth. Regards, Mohammad On Oct 28, 3:33 pm, Paul J Stevens <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/28/2010 05:38 AM, Mohammad wrote: > > > Currently export menu can only export to CSV format. So maybe if could > > be possible to add this kind of export feature to Tryton Client, > > Then just like Export to CSV, we can export to Google Spreadsheet. > > Although i think Export to other formats like Excel sounds to have > > more priority than google Docs. > > I don't understand. All spreadsheets I've ever used support importing > from CSV files just fine. It's the lingua-franca of database formats. I > know for sure Excel can read CSV, and so can google docs. > > I just tested uploading a CSV file into docs. Works like a charm. > > But maybe you want a wizard that will upload the csv file directly into > google docs? > > -- > ________________________________________________________________ > Paul Stevens paul at nfg.nl > NET FACILITIES GROUP GPG/PGP: 1024D/11F8CD31 > The Netherlands________________________________http://www.nfg.nl -- [email protected] mailing list
