Posted: July 30, 2013 at 2:49 am
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When I export the data of an event, the Email, Place of Birth and Date of Birth are duplicates fields. Here’s a Screenshot Please, can you help me solve this problem? I would also have another question: It’s possible to export data to excel and to have the registrant (primary) bold? Thanks in advance, regards |
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Screenshot primary registrant: |
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Hi Marco, Do you have Roles and Permissions active? If so can you disable it and test the export to see if it changes? The only way to get the bolded would be to modify the export function, which is a core file to pull the is_primary column from the database and highlight those. |
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Hi Dean, Please, can you tell me in which file is there function to export all participants in excel format? |
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Hi, OK, I can see the email duplication, but I cannot re-create the duplication of the custom questions. Can you advise what type of questions they are, if required and if admin only and also whether they have a custom question group or have been assigned to a default group. The export is created via the includes/functions/export.php file. |
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I have two question groups: If you agree, I can give you the admin password so you can take a closer look |
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It has been more than six hours and still I have not received a reply |
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I found the fix to the email question duplication, at least. Change line 339 of includes/function/export.php to: $ignore = array('1'=>1, '2'=>2, '3'=>3);
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Hi Sidney, |
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Please, can you solve the mistake of duplicating data when you export the excel spreadsheet. |
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Is it possible to get your login details in order to look into this? If so, please send them via https://eventespresso.com/send-login-details/ NOTE: login details need to be Admin level. |
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Yes, of course |
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Ok! I sent out my account information |
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Thank you. I can’t see anything wrong. I have now (not sure how) recreated it on my local server. I will add this to the developer ticket to look into. Right now I cannot give you a resolution right now, a developer will need to look at it. Please bear with us. |
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Ok! Thanks a lot. Regards |
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I have figured out where the problem is. Regards, |
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There is another bug. |
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Hello Marco, We are indeed looking into this issue, however whilst I know the issue is real, we are struggling to systematically recreate the issue. The method you stated of adding the question groups to the additional attendee does not seem to force this issue. Please bear with us whilst we continue to look into this. Also please note that the files from the export buttons are all correctly exported with the xls extension. The files exported from the Action images are exported as csv files. We have had no reports and cannot replicate extension-less files. |
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Hi Dean, Let me know if you need anything else |
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Sure thing, can you resend login details please? |
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Ok! Password sent |
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Hi, This screenshot http://d.pr/i/D0GN is the downloads from the 4 export options on the Event Overview page (the two action image buttons and the 2 export buttons below the overview). As you can see they all have the correct extensions, 3 xls and 1 csv. |
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OK Dean! You are right. |
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I double checked it with FireFox and no issues, but I am running a Windows computer. Sidney might have a Mac, so he may be able to double check that from his end as well. |
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Ok! Thank you so much for your time |
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Do you have got to check with a mac and firefox browser if the exported file from buttons (Screenshot) is generated without .xls extension? I still have this problem! |
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I’m still waiting for an answer. I will propose again the question: when I export the data from buttons (Screenshot), the files are generated without .xls extension. This occurs only with the firefox browser on mac. In addition, you should solve the problem with the duplication of fields in the excel sheet because this is a mistake of the plugin. |
Hi Marco, I’ve been able to export the file with .xls extensions in both Chrome and Firefox: http://www.screencast.com/t/S4RrhSdQkS Does this happen when you download other excel files from other sources? Are there any other users experiencing this issue? |
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Ok! But there remains the problem of the duplication of the fields when I export the information to Excel. |
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However, to answer your question: Does this happen when you download other excel files from other sources? |
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Here’s a Screenshot. |
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Hello Marco, We are still looking into the duplicate fields issue. Please bear with us, as it is not an easily reproducible bug which means we have to narrow down how it is occurring before we can fix it. I cannot give you a time-scale in relation to it being fixed. Regarding the file extension, thanks for your clarification. What version of Firefox are you using? |
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Hi Dean, With regard to the duplication of fields in excel: browsing your forum I have seen that this is a problem that there is a long time in EE. So, I’m waiting for your answer. Regards |
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I’m still waiting for someone to give me a concrete answer |
Hi Marco, We have not been able to reproduce this issue on any of our testing environments. Until we are able to we will not be able to fix it. This may be an issue with your local environment, specifically with your version of excel not being able import the file the same way from Firefox as it does from the other browsers. |
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Hi Josh, |
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If you take the export that’s doubled and open it in another application other than excel, do the columns duplicate? |
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I have installed open office for mac and open .xls file from there. |
Do you have any extensions installed for Firefox? Can you re-send FTP and admin credentials you sent earlier so that someone on the dev team can investigate the issue on your server environment? |
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I have installed Firebug and Web Developer Components on Firefox. I noticed something else: If I manually add the extension to the generated files (Screenshot) and open them on excel, these are the only export correctly without duplicate fields. Soon I send access data |
Here is a link to a support thread from mozilla.org that might help with the issue you’re having with Firefox not adding the file extension when you try to export: |
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Hi Josh, Please, solve the problem of the extension of the files and the problem of the duplication of fields Regards |
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OK! Access data sent |
Hi Marco, One of the developers looked into this on his end and found that it’s an issue with the Italian translation. The reason the .xls extension wasn’t getting added onto the exported file was the traslation of “all-events” was “Tutti gli Event” (Note the spaces instead of dashes separating the words in the file name). We are testing a fix that involves programmatically replacing the spaces with dashes which you can apply to your copy of event-espresso/includes/functions/export.php on line 130: You can change this line: $filename = $filename . "-" . $today; to: $filename = str_replace(" ","-",$filename) . "-" . $today; |
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Hi Josh, Wow! Thank you very much. Thank you again! |
Hi Marco, One of the developers and I both logged into your site and downloaded the excel exports and found no duplicated fields. I’m afraid there isn’t a problem to solve here. |
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Hi Josh, |
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Please solve this problem. It is important to be able to export each and every event with the correct data |
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Hi Josh, Please solve this problem. It is important to be able to export each and every event with the correct data |
Hi Marco, It looks like the column names are duplicated, the fields are not duplicated. I’ll update the ticket in the codebase so one of the developers will know. In the meantime, I think you can work around this issue be creating a unique set of questions for the place of birth and date of birth form fields. The new set can get assigned to the question group for the Additional Attendees. |
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Hi Josh, Thanks in advance and congratulations for the great support |
I’m afraid that’s not possible because the CSV format does not allow for formatting: |
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