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CSV Export Plugin |
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CSV Export Plugin |
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It enables the export of the characteristics of variables and expressions to CSV files. The variables and expressions will be forwarded into a .CSV extension file, the name of which always includes the name of the group, then in case of variables the word "var", and the word "exp" in case of expressions.
Construction of the window of plugin Settings:
1. Target directory: is the directory path of the directory where the files created by the plugin will be forwarded
2. File name and character style:
| • | "<groupname>-<exp/var>-<timestamp>.csv" format file name: if we choose this, the plugin will create new files at every running, the name of which will be made unique by the time stamp. If, for instance we export the expressions of the group named untitledGroup_0 at 08:38:30 on 11.09.2009, then the name of the file will be untitledGroup_0-exp-20090911083830.csv. |
| • | "<groupname>-<exp/var>.csv" format file name, attaching data: in lack of time stamp the file name will not be unique, so the module will use the same file if it runs several times with the same settings. This option leaves unaffected the content of the file, it attaches the new data to it. |
| • | "<groupname>-<exp/var>.csv" format file name, overwriting an existing file: in lack of time stamp the file name will not be unique, so the module will use the same file if it runs several times with the same settings. This option overwrites the file, so it will contain only the last exported data. |
3. Other:
| • | Enable logging: recording the most important events into the Windows Event Log. |
| • | Displaying message windows during running: displaying message windows concerning the successful export (requires user interaction). |
| • | Date format: here we can specify in which format the date type data should be forwarded into the CSV file. |
4. Hyphen: we can decide which character will serve for the separation of fields in the CSV file.
5. Expressions and variables:
| • | By the Enable Export option we can specify if we want to export expressions and/or variables. |
| • | The Accessible Attributes and the List of Attributes to be Exported include the fields of expressions and variables. The plugin will write out only the items of the List of Attributes to be Exported in the order given bellow. |
All our expressions and variables have several other attributes - besides their value - which we can export.
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