I?ve had many complaints and suggestions (Not always polite) from my customers regarding the grid export capability. Most of them describing it as ?poor?. I thought I?d log some of the issues on the off-chance Netmake will respond.
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- The selection of B/W or colour is good,but what about all of the other settings you see in normal applications such as page, size, fit to page, etc.
- There seems to be no substantive difference between View and download? what are they supposed to do?
- Simply ignore the group-by? why is this not just a separate column, then you can group within Excel or other application? At the moment, you simply lose the data.
- Multiple nested tables in the output makes the export impossible to use in Word? I defy you to use it with anything but a very simple list.
- There are no pagination or other options such as ?fit to page? which often produces a grid that extends beyond the Word page size and is difficult to resize
Other developer comments
This could be a very powerful feature with limited work. You just need to give developers some additional options in all export options of the IDE: For example:
- Portrait or landscape output (Soooo Basic!)
- Page size (e.g. A3)
- Paginate (or not) after group-by
- Shrink output to fit a size (e.g. A4), or give some means of manipulating the output manually
Let?s see whether anything appears in 9.3
Feel free to add your suggestions to this thread!