Unified Index Export

This page is to brainstorm on export capabilities of Tiki features that rely on the Unified Index, such as

• PluginList
• PluginListExecute
• PluginPivotTable
• PluginCustomSearch
• etc.

Source data

PluginList is obvious

• PluginPivotTable has two modes:
  • Standard pivot table data
  • aggregateDetails

https://pivottable.js.org/examples/mps_export.html

https://github.com/nicolaskruchten/pivottable/issues/851

https://github.com/nicolaskruchten/pivottable/issues/582

https://github.com/nicolaskruchten/pivottable/wiki/Optional-Extra-Renderers#exporting-to-tsv-demo

Export

• Format: only .csv for now. We can perhaps add other later, like xlsx and ods
• Which columns?
  • Options: all (default, and immediate need)
  • Later: what is show on page, and possibly configurable (a bit like Tracker Tabular).
• Which rows?
  • According to current filter. So if no filter if currently picked, all data is exported
  • All rows should be exported, notwithstanding pagination on current view

    
    

Questions

• What happens if too much data causes timeouts? Should there be a way to set a maximum? or to increase time allowed to generate? Or pre-generate reports in the back-end?