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Export selection from parameter value panes

Open DillonJ opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

It would be really nice to export a selection from the parameter value pane to sqlite or json. This would give us a nice little portable file we can import into another DB. It would also be nice if we had a tool to import json in a workflow, but that's another issue.

We can export objects right now, but that tends to be very heavy as the sqlite file generated contains everything and I can't filter out specific parameters, or conversely, include just specific parameters.

DillonJ avatar Aug 10 '23 08:08 DillonJ

Have you tried copy-pasting the data from one database to the other? Or is it not an option in your use case?

soininen avatar Aug 10 '23 09:08 soininen

Hi @soininen my use case was that I wanted to send the data to another person via teams. I copied and pasted into an excel and sent the excel and they had to copy and paste back into their DB. There is no guarantee that they would have had the columns in the same order so it's not a great method. There would be a lot of utility in expanding the functionality of the existing export feature

DillonJ avatar Aug 10 '23 09:08 DillonJ

Alright, then it would make more sense to be able to save parts of the database into a file.

soininen avatar Aug 10 '23 10:08 soininen