Bug 254621 - Add support for fixed width text export
Summary: Add support for fixed width text export
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: KEXI
Classification: Applications
Component: Migration/Import/Export (show other bugs)
Version: 2.4.0
Platform: unspecified All
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kexi Bugs
URL: https://invent.kde.org/office/kexi/-/...
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Reported: 2010-10-19 07:40 UTC by Jinal
Modified: 2023-04-03 21:25 UTC (History)
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Description Jinal 2010-10-19 07:40:17 UTC
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 1.2) 
OS:                MS Windows

After trying to export the query result to a text file, it saves it in .csv format.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
Create a  query, right click and select export file to data and then save it in .txt format. 

Actual Results:  
.txt file should be created with the results

Expected Results:  
File is exported with the correct data, but in .csv format.
Comment 1 Jarosław Staniek 2010-10-19 20:38:13 UTC
Hello,
Regardless of the filename extension (txt, csv), the output format of this option is CSV, for more details please read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma-separated_values

If you demand export fixed-column-width format, which is feature designed at [1], please do so, and we'll rework this report to a wish for future Kexi versions.

http://www.kexi-project.org/wiki/wikiview/index.php@DataMigrationTools_Importing_FixedWidthText.html
Comment 2 Jarosław Staniek 2010-10-22 22:24:29 UTC
No response so far. 
Changed to wish 'Add support for fixed width text export'.
Comment 3 Jarosław Staniek 2014-06-27 15:09:03 UTC
Example product with the fwt approach: http://docs.appligent.com/redax-enterprise-server/res-generating-reports
Comment 4 Jarosław Staniek 2014-06-27 15:12:48 UTC
Please note, for Redax reports mentioned above there is a way to specify some parameters or even a template. This approach is related to exporting to HTML-based formats (a wish at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336776) with help of templates. At least some workflow and functionality can be shared.