[rt-users] Spreadsheet view displays more columns than in search

[Flynn, Timothy J]

Just an FYI, it was the double quote that was causing the issues with
Excel and rows not showing properly.  I am using Excel 2003.  I ended up
doing this:

$val =~ s/[^\032-\041\043-\176]/ /g;

-Tim


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Timothy J
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 9:55 AM
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Subject: RE: [rt-users] Spreadsheet view displays more columns than in
search 

After reviewing my changes further I believe I came up with a better
solution for escaping tabs.

In the file "rtroot"/share/html/Search/Elements/Results.tsv ....


Instead of the line:
$val =~ s/(\n|\r)//g;

And instead of the previous change I suggested:

$val =~ s/(\n|\r|\t)//g;

I am going to change it to this:

$val =~ s/\s/ /g;

My thinking is if the intent of a newline, tab, or other whitespace
character was to separate data, then a single space would be more
fitting than nothing at all.  Hope this helps someone else.  Also
wouldn't be a bad idea to add this fix to future versions even if it
doesn't match what I did above.  I would think having tabs escaped would
be required for a tab delimited file to work properly.

-Tim


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf Of Flynn,
Timothy J
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 9:16 AM
To: rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
Subject: RE: [rt-users] Spreadsheet view displays more columns than in
search 

 
Woops, just found this:

 $val =~ s/(\n|\r)//g;

Looks like I just need to change to:

$val =~ s/(\n|\r|\t)//g;


-Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com
[mailto:rt-users-bounces at lists.bestpractical.com] On Behalf Of Flynn,
Timothy J
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 9:15 AM
To: rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
Subject: RE: [rt-users] Spreadsheet view displays more columns than in
search 

I think I found the root of the problem.  It doesn't appear that tab
characters or newlines are being escaped from the result set.  This
would cause issues with the presentation in Excel.  I will add some
coding to do this to the rows after I apply the patch.  I am surprised
this never affected anyone before.

Thanks,
-Tim
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Turner [mailto:sturner at MIT.EDU] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 9:04 AM
To: Flynn, Timothy J; rt-users at lists.bestpractical.com
Subject: RE: [rt-users] Spreadsheet view displays more columns than in
search 

At Tuesday 5/23/2006 04:50 PM, Flynn, Timothy J wrote:
>Thanks Eric,  do you know why I'd be getting different results in
>spreadsheet vs the web list?  On one report I am getting 14 tickets in
>the web view and in the spreadsheet I am getting 11 and the data is
>wrong..  FYI the web results are correct and the spreadsheet is not.
Is
>something not being escaped that is affecting the query?
>
>-Tim
>

The mechanism use in searching for the web view is different from 
that used in the full spreadsheet download.

That said, you should still see the same number of rows. When you get 
14 rows in the web view are you actually seeing 14 tickets in the 
list, or is that number from the 'Found 14 tickets' message? It's 
just possible that you only have permission to see 11 of the 14 rows
returned.

Steve 

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