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This project has been retired and we leave it here, as-is, for anybody still using it.
The proper way to export data to various formats now is django-tables2 package itself. See for yourself: http://django-tables2.readthedocs.io/en/latest/pages/export.html
Please do not use django-tables2-reports for new projects.
With django-tables2-reports you can get a report (CSV, XLS) of any table with minimal changes to your project
- Python (supports 2.7, 3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6)
- Django (supports 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 1.7, 1.8. 1.9, 1.10, 1.11)
- django-tables2
- xlwt, openpyxl or pyExcelerator (these are optionals, to export to xls; defaults to xlwt if available)
- In your settings:
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'django_tables2_reports',
)
TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
'django.core.context_processors.static',
)
# This is optional
EXCEL_SUPPORT = 'xlwt' # or 'openpyxl' or 'pyexcelerator'
1.a Now your table should extend of 'TableReport'
############### Before ###################
import django_tables2 as tables
class MyTable(tables.Table):
...
############### Now ######################
from django_tables2_reports.tables import TableReport
class MyTable(TableReport):
...
1.b If you want to exclude some columns from report (e.g. if it is a column of buttons), you should set 'exclude_from_report' - the names of columns (as well as property 'exclude' in table)
class MyTable(TableReport):
class Meta:
exclude_from_report = ('column1', ...)
...
2.a. If you use a traditional views, now you should use other RequestConfig and change a little your view:
############### Before ###################
from django_tables2 import RequestConfig
def my_view(request):
objs = ....
table = MyTable(objs)
RequestConfig(request).configure(table)
return render_to_response('app1/my_view.html',
{'table': table},
context_instance=RequestContext(request))
############### Now ######################
from django_tables2_reports.config import RequestConfigReport as RequestConfig
from django_tables2_reports.utils import create_report_http_response
def my_view(request):
objs = ....
table = MyTable(objs)
table_to_report = RequestConfig(request).configure(table)
if table_to_report:
return create_report_http_response(table_to_report, request)
return render_to_response('app1/my_view.html',
{'table': table},
context_instance=RequestContext(request))
If you have a lot of tables in your project, you can activate the middleware, and you do not have to change your views, only the RequestConfig import
# In your settings
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
'django_tables2_reports.middleware.TableReportMiddleware',
)
############### Now (with middleware) ######################
from django_tables2_reports.config import RequestConfigReport as RequestConfig
def my_view(request):
objs = ....
table = MyTable(objs)
RequestConfig(request).configure(table)
return render_to_response('app1/my_view.html',
{'table': table},
context_instance=RequestContext(request))
2.b. If you use a Class-based views:
############### Before ###################
from django_tables2.views import SingleTableView
class PhaseChangeView(SingleTableView):
table_class = MyTable
model = MyModel
############### Now ######################
from django_tables2_reports.views import ReportTableView
class PhaseChangeView(ReportTableView):
table_class = MyTable
model = MyModel
Under the table appear a CSV icon (and XLS icon if you have xlwt, openpyxl or pyExcelerator in your python path), if you click in this icon, you get a CSV report (or xls report) with every item of the table (without pagination). The ordering works!
You can get the last bleeding edge version of django-tables2-reports by doing a clone of its git repository:
git clone https://github.com/goinnn/django-tables2-reports
In the source tree, you will find a directory called 'test_project'. It contains a readily setup project that uses django-tables2-reports. You can run it as usual:
cd test_project export PYTHONPATH=.. python manage.py syncdb --noinput python manage.py runserver