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Export report to XLSX

Open Kaelber opened this issue 10 months ago • 3 comments

Um die exportierten Daten ohne Umformatierungen verwenden zu können, wäre eine Excel-Formatausgabe hilfreich. Gute Lösung z.B. in myHours:

https://app.myhours.com

Kaelber avatar Apr 08 '24 16:04 Kaelber

Hm... I've heard before that Excel doesn't open CSV files. Is that right? Can't you just do right click -> "Open with..." or whatever Windows calls this? 😅

I'm not too flexible on time right now, but I guess it would require pulling in a library that can write Excel binary files and adding a button to invoke that library. So actually quite a good task for someone who wants to contribute ... 😉

te-online avatar Apr 08 '24 17:04 te-online

I among other things also tried this, but unfortunately it doesn't work. When I open the CSV, I am directly in the table and cannot do anything with the values. If I save the export as TXT, I can select which font and which separator should be used when opening in Excel. This works so far. Unfortunately, however, the hourly values with a dot are then interpreted differently, so that the values are changed and can no longer be used. If a comma had been used instead of a period, the result would probably not be distorted. All in all, unfortunately, a bit cumbersome and also unusable.

I must say, I use german installations of Excel, so the values are in a different condition as in english spoken countries.

Kaelber avatar Apr 09 '24 06:04 Kaelber

So maybe changing the decimal separator based on user locale could fix some of the issues maybe 🤔

te-online avatar Apr 09 '24 18:04 te-online

Your feature request is valid and I appreciate your input 😊

However, in an effort to focus on maintaining existing features, I'm closing feature requests like this one for now.

For more context, please take a look at the "Update strategy" section of the Readme 🙏

te-online avatar Jul 18 '24 20:07 te-online