Export CSV files: Configurable separator (reopened) #22766
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Summary
Although this was closed last year (#12456) due to less than 15 votes, the current success of Directus makes it necessary to reopen the discussion to expand its future by considering a new idea (see Detailed Design) that addresses the points of the old discussion.
Basic Example
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Motivation
Most of European countries and some others don't use a comma separator for CSV.
Therefore when opening the export in Excel for instance, all the data appear in the first column making it unreadable.
Plus the accented letters shows like
É
for É, etc.Detailed Design
To take in account the countries' variations, let's consider the separator
,
as a wordHence give it the correct translations, ';' for the countries concerned., etc.
So we can have in the settings have a word
SEPARATOR
that is ' , ' by default but can have translations for different languages.It is the appropriate translation of the word
SEPARATOR
according to the user's preference that will be used to build the CSV.Requirements List
Must Have:
Should Have:
Could Have:
Won't Have:
Drawbacks
None
Alternatives
None
Adoption Strategy
Doesn't modify the overall way Directus works
Unresolved Questions
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