European Code Sprint 2-5 Oct 2010 - suggestions

[xavier]

All the wards & other political circumscription needs extra fields non standard.

What did you have in mind? The lat lon only?

[xavier]

Hi,

The csv is europe has different separators, so you are never sure it you need a column or semi-column (based on the version an language of excel).
Moreover, it assumes wincharset, no unicode AND excel doesn't let you change it.

Fe "workaround" is to rename the csv into txt (and for that you have to change the settings of windows so it displays the extension), go to excel, change the option to be able to open .txt, then you have a wizard where you can set both the separator and the charset.

That is not userfriendly at all.

Fortunately, if you generate an html table and set the type to excel, it works directly (well, with a warning message), but at least the format is respected.

I'd like to add on the export an option to choose if you want to generate csv or excel on the export.

As for the import, if you detect that there is only one column, try other separators (tab or , or and if one gets more than one column use it as the separator for this import.

X+

[Michael McAndrew]

make custom data search form html element choice independent from input element choice for custom data.  e.g. be able to use a select for inputing data but checkboxes or muli select for searching.

i think i can say without exception all my clients ask for this one

[Donald Lobo]

i'd like to make a few underlying items that we'd like to accomplish in the code sprint: (and which i think made the NY sprint quite successful)

1. No new features (if anything involves writing lots of new code, creating tables it is a new feature

2. Integrate / generalize community contributed code (gift aid is a good example here. In NY we integrated multi-job mailings, made progress on SMS / using names instead of ids etc)

3. Help improve apis (and standardize on the conventions used, fix a few of the most "broken" places)

4. Add lots and lots of unit and web tests

5. Add new "general" hooks as needed (mostly to integrate item #2)

lobo

[Eileen]

Just while it's on the top of my mind - the new soft_delete option needs corresponding functionality in the API (it may be there but not yet documented) to do hard_deletes when deleting

[petednz]

The csv is europe has different separators, so you are never sure it you need a column or semi-column (based on the version an language of excel).
Moreover, it assumes wincharset, no unicode AND excel doesn't let you change it.

I think the above is referring to colons and semi-colons. Not trying to be clever or picky - just aware there are others with something other than English as their first language who may get confused by it.