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Bug 102610 - Export transaction report to text comma-separated values
Export transaction report to text comma-separated values
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 380245
Product: GnuCash
Classification: Other
Component: Reports
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Chris Lyttle
Chris Lyttle
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-01-05 21:43 UTC by Matthew Zimmerman
Modified: 2018-06-29 20:24 UTC
See Also:
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Description Matthew Zimmerman 2003-01-05 21:43:52 UTC 
I would like to be able to export a register report to a CSV (or analogous
text-based) format, for import into a spreadsheet, etc. Currently, as far
as I can tell, I can only save such reports in HTML or Postscript format. I
have been saving it as HTML and using lynx and a Perl scripts to strip away
the excess HTML, but that seems awfully kludgy to me. I'm willing to
download the CVS and take a shot at it myself (don't count on a patch from
me anytime soon!), but I am curious if anyone is already working on (or
already implemented) such a feature. I'm currently using the stock RPM that
comes with Red Hat 7.3. Thanks!

Matt Zimmerman
Comment 1 Phil T. Rich 2004-06-25 20:26:53 UTC 
I think the fix for this would be to update the HTML report generation
routines to generate XML instead of HTML. Then, XSLTs could be used to
convert to HTML, csv, <insert-your-favorite-format-here>....

This way, *all* the reports could be exported to multiple formats
without having to add the functionality to each report individually.
Comment 2 Tim Wunder 2006-01-22 14:44:05 UTC 
Move RFEs to verison unspecified
Comment 3 Bengt Thuree 2006-04-04 06:18:16 UTC 
Just adding my small agreement with Comment #1
Personally, as well as what I have seen from the list, this is a feature that would be very much appreciated.

And if we do it like this, it should be very easy to add new "plugins" for new export protocols (xhtml (default), cvs, txt, pdf etc)
Comment 4 Jared 2006-11-29 12:20:56 UTC 
I agree, this would be very much appreciated
Comment 5 Lance Green 2007-07-08 11:57:20 UTC 
I also agree.

I find the reporting not suitable and would like to be able to access the data in a form I can create the reports I want.
Comment 6 Rolf Leggewie 2008-07-12 20:06:09 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 380245 ***
Comment 7 John Ralls 2018-06-29 20:24:39 UTC 
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