Feature #37621
closed
Add field separator option to CSV export dialog
Added by Karel Pičman over 2 years ago.
Updated about 1 year ago.
Description
I would like to add a field separator option to the CVS export option form.
Background:
If I have set the language e.g. to English in my Redmine profile, the separator is taken from config/locales/en.yml (general_csv_separator) and it is comma. If I have installed e.g. German Microsoft Office and try to open such a CSV, it expects that the separator is semicolon. Unfortunately, Microsoft Office doesn't offer to choose the separator prior opening a CSV file and always uses the default value.
It is also related to #37581, where many translations have set general_csv_separator to different value than is expected in Microsoft Office.
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Is the ability to select decimal separator unnecessary?
I think you need to change the decimal separator to ";" when you change the field separator to ",".
No, you needn't. When the decimal separator is comma, values containing comma are enclosed in apostrophes.
...2022-09-12,"","2,50","2,50",0,2022-09-12 07:37...
- Target version set to Candidate for next major release
- Target version changed from Candidate for next major release to 5.1.0
Setting the target version to 5.1.0.
Committed the patch in r22359 with the following changes.
- Removed ":", "{tab}", "{space}" from the field separator options because the current importer does not support them. But I think "{tab}" is useful, so I opened a new issue #39212
- Changed the text in the select box from "," and ";" to "Comma" and "Semicolon", the same as the importer's dialog
- Added more tests
Thank you for your contribution.
Go MAEDA wrote in #note-5:
- Removed ":", "{tab}", "{space}" from the field separator options because the current importer does not support them. [...]
While I don't care about this change particularly, I do strongly think that Redmine's CSV-import capabilities shouldn't be leading in setting the scope for the CSV-export capabilities. I believe that Redmine should be agnostic about any post-processors of the exported CSV file.
- Tracker changed from Patch to Feature
- Resolution set to Fixed
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