[Qgis-developer] Re: Excel Export from QGIS

[bernhard.stroebl at jena.de]

Hi Andreas,

I am running JasperReports from QGIS Python plugins using PyJasper 
https://github.com/hudora/pyJasper
I do not know if it is elegant but it works :)
I can send you an example if you drop me a line.

Bernhard

Am 02.12.2011 07:44, schrieb Andreas Neumann:
> Hi,
>
> These are almost exactly the reasons why want to export to spreadsheet:
>
> * people want to print tables
> * people want to reformat tables
> * people want to share the data (e.g. sending an email, post results on
> the webpage) - for this purpose a PDF would also be good enough often.
>
> For the long run we also want a reporting tool (something like Jasper)
> for printing forms/statistics/charts/diagrams/map views directly from
> QGIS. But I know this is complex ...
>
> Andreas
>
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2011 11:55:40 +1300, Alister Hood wrote:
>> Hi everybody,
>> Just a couple of thoughts:
>>
>> As others have mentioned, many people want to export to Excel mainly for
>> formatting and printing, perhaps with some added calculations. The
>> ideal would be to improve formatting and printing in QGIS so that this
>> isn't necessary.
>> Spreadsheets aren't particularly great for it anyway, and doing it in
>> QGIS would mean that you wouldn't need to export and format again if the
>> data is updated.
>> I imagine this could eventually be quite a lot of work - perhaps it
>> would be a good idea for a Summer of Code project. I guess it would
>> include work on:
>> - table formatting
>> - number formatting (also see #4426, although that is not about
>> specifying how data in an existing column is displayed).
>> - virtual columns (similar to the new expression based labelling).
>> - easy breaking of tables across multiple pages, page numbering etc.
>>
>> Some people also like to export data to Excel, modify it, and bring it
>> back into GIS. Like someone said, this is a recipe for headaches, if
>> not disaster. I think it would be great if we could identify any
>> further enhancements to the attribute table and the field calculator
>> which would help people not to do this.
>>
>> Alister
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