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Excel Export and Import

This is an alpha version of a potentially dangerous programs

Description

Two programs are provided:
  1. topics2excel to convert a set of topic into an Excel sheet
  2. excel2topics to convert an Excel sheet into topics

topics2excel

excel2topics

  • WARNING: The excel2topics script is a very powerful tool. It can overwrite every topic in your web with a new version. Be careful what you are doing with this program.
  • You can use this tool to import topics that do not have a form attached to them at all. Just create a Excel sheet with a TEXT and a TOPIC column. The TEXT column contains the raw text of the topic while the TOPIC column contains the topic name.

How it works

  1. Export by clicking here
  2. Edit the Excel file
  3. Attach the Excel file to this topic with the name "IssueExcelExportImport.xls "
  4. Import by clicking here
  5. Check for the issues in the IssueTracker

Settings

Common Settings

  • Set FORM = IssueTrackingForm
  • Set DEBUG = 0
  • Set TOPICTEXT = TEXT
  • Set TOPICCOLUMN = TOPIC

Import Settings

Export Settings

  • Set VERTICALCOLWIDTH = 2.66
  • Set PAGEWIDTH = 215
  • Set DATETIMEFORMAT = yyyymmdd-hh:mm
  • Set TEMPLATETOPIC = Template

Field Meaning Default
Name
Name of the form field
 
Short Name
Column header. The Short Name and Name need to be the same if you want to be able to import the exported files without changing the column headers
 
Width
Width of the column
 
Orientation
Vertical
h
Data Type
empty (=text) or date
text

Format of the exported Excel:
Name Short Name Width Orientation Data Type
STATUS
STATUS
 
v
 
NUM
NUM
 
v
 
DATE_LOGGED
DATE_LOGGED
 
v
date
LOGGED_BY
LOGGED_BY
 
v
 
SERVICE
SERVICE
 
v
 
REGION
REGION
 
v
 
REGION_AFFECTED
REGION_AFFECTED
 
v
 
USERS_AFFECTED
USERS_AFFECTED
 
 
 
SHORT_DESCRIPTION
SHORT_DESCRIPTION
 
 
 
PROBLEM_DETAILS
PROBLEM_DETAILS
 
 
 
SERVICE
SERVICE
 
v
 
ACTION_OWNER
ACTION_OWNER
 
v
 
NEXT_STEPS
NEXT_STEPS
 
 
 
START
START
 
v
 
DURATION
DURATION
 
v
 
SEVERITY
SEVERITY
 
v
 
REOC
REOC
 
v
 
FIX_PRIORITY
FIX_PRIORITY
 
v
 
NEXT_UPDATE
NEXT_UPDATE
 
v
date
TOPIC
TOPIC
 
 
 
TEXT
TEXT
 
 
 
TopicClassification
TopicClassification
 
 
 
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