provide list csv seperator to user

[samani]

hi
some of my users have different list seperator setting in their windows...some of them use "," but some other use ";" in their Windows>control panel.
is it possible to provide that setting to them to set it according individual windows setting?some of my user use win7 and some win10 or maybe use linux that these OS have different default setting and they don't have the expertise required to make the settings for list seperator and ambiguous to set that.
is it possible to set this option when they want to download csv of list?

 

[cheesegrits]

It's currently only settable on a global and per-list basis.

Do you currently show the download options to the user?

-- hugh

 

[samani]

It's currently only settable on a global and per-list basis.

Do you currently show the download options to the user?

-- hugh

Yes...is it possible show download option to the user? Now they see only green download csv button.

 

[troester]

Yes, set "Front end options"
http://fabrikar.com/forums/index.php?wiki/list-edit/#csv

But there's no "Export delimiter" option, the user can chose CSV or Excel export.

 

[cheesegrits]

Yup - I only asked because I suspected he wasn't already showing them ... and that even if we did provide a user-settable way of doing it in the options, if his users are not savvy enough to know to switch their separator in Excel (or whatever), then they won't be savvy enough to deal with the configurable options when downloading the CSV.

And there's no way we can somehow magically detect what version of what OS they are running and set the sepchar accordingly.

CSV stands for "Comma Separated Values" ... so the clue as to what sepchar you are getting as default is kind of in the name.

Also, I'm surprised there are still any spreadsheet apps left that can't automatically detect if the document is comma or tab delimited. That's kind of a 20th century problem.

-- hugh