Manual:Extension/BlueSpiceExportTables

What is ExportTablesBlueSpiceExportTables?

ExportTables supplements tables with the option to save them with one click into other formats, eg. MS Excel, to export.

How does ExportTables work?

BlueSpiceExportTables allows exporting tables on wikipages and grids with tabular data.

Using BlueSpiceExportTables

If the Extension ExportTables is installed, you can assign tables the additional property "Exportable". This allows you to open the table in read-only mode with a mouse click in other formats.

Where to find ExportTables?

Any regular table that is insert on a page can be exported. Before table export is possible, table must be configured to support exporting.

In VisualEditorIn the WYSIWYG editor

While editing a page in VisualEditor, click on the page and select "Properties". In the dialog that is opened, turn on option "Exportable".

In Wikitext

In Edit mode, click on a table and expand the Formats button in the WYSIWYG editor.

The entry "Table" opens another menu in which you select the last entry "Exportable". The selected points are orange indicated.

After saving, the table has the additional property that you can export it to other formats (right click on the table).

In the wiki code

Table can be set to be exportable in wiki text as well. Add classes "bs-exportable" and "exportable" to the table's "class" argument.

                
{| class="wikitable bs-exportable exportable"
|+...


            

After saving the page, all users viewing the page can export the table by right-clicking on the table and selecting desired format.

Formats

You can also quickly and easily export a table in the wiki code. Add the bs-exportable attribute to the table tag:

To remove the function from a table, you must go to the wiki code and delete the "bs-exportable" attribute from the start of the tableFormats that are offered for exporting a page are:

• CSV - Comma separated values
• XLS - Microsoft Office Excel 2003
• XLSX - Microsoft Office Excel

Exporting data from grids

In addition to exporting the tables on pages, most of BlueSpice managers and other extensions that display tabluar data also offer exporting of data. Exporting such data is done over "Export table" menu in right top corner of the managers like BlueSpiceNamespaceManager.

You can also export tables from any Manager (Book Manager, Assignment management, Category manager, Group manager, Namespace manager, Permission manager, User manager).

See also

Our reference page.