[APBeta] Silence...

[Paul Kemp]

Paul,

You must hate getting email from me ;-)

Considering that I am the original voice for moving and exporting data in
all sorts of different formats.

Paul Kemp
13.1" f5 Reflector with Argo Navis & Paracorr
Auckland, New Zealand
36° 55' 09" South, 174° 43' 30" East

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On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 5:15 AM, Paul Rodman <paul at ilanga.com> wrote:

> OK, the reason for my silence is that I have been busy gutting and rewiring
> the text import/export features for AP. Looking at the original code, I
> realised that it was still largely V1.x code and was not working well at
> all. I am just about complete at this stage. Some notes:
>
> a. You can now export session/observation data (independently of plan
> object data).
> b. All (or pretty much all) fields in objects, sessions and observations
> can be exported. Ditto for importing objects and observations.
> c. Many more import/export formats are supported.
> d. Multiple resource combinations can be exported (rather than just the
> first one).
> e. XML export is now a lot better and conforms better to standards. Output
> is nicely hierarchically arranged.
> f. When importing, the first data line is presented to you as "sample
> data", allowing you to set up formats much easier. It also pre-imports the
> values and displays them so you can make sure you're using the correct
> formats, columns, etc.
>
> I have given some thought to HTML export features (i.e. automatically
> generating web pages from your plan/observation data), but I suspect that
> will not make it into V2. There's always the Observation HTML script...
>
> Paul R.
>
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