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Views Data Export
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Introduction
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This module is designed to provide a way to export large amounts of data from
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views. It provides a display plugin that can rendered progressively in a batch.
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Style plugins are include that support exporting in the following types:
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* CSV
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* Microsoft XLS
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* Microsoft Doc
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* Basic txt
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* Simple xml.
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Using the "Views Data Export" module
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1. Add a new "Data export" display to your view.
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2. Change its "Style" to the desired export type. e.g. "CSV file".
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3. Configure the options (such as name, quote, etc.). You can go back and do
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this at any time by clicking the gear icon next to the style plugin you just
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selected.
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4. Give it a path in the Feed settings such as "path/to/view/csv".
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5. Optionally, you can choose to attach this to another of your displays by
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updating the "Attach to:" option in feed settings.
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Advanced usage
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This module also exposes a drush command that can execute the view and save its
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results to a file.
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drush views-data-export [view-name] [display-id] [output-file]
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History
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This module has its roots in the export module that was part of the views bonus
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pack (http://drupal.org/project/views_bonus). However, massive changes were
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needed to make the batch export functionality work, and so this fork was
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created. See: http://drupal.org/node/805960
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