Thread: Ability to Print or Export Data

Ability to Print or Export Data

I am considering the purchase of the theme, and was wanting to know if as the admin, can I dump the ads being entered by clients into a format that is able to be re-formatted and printed for OFFLINE distribution?

Re: Ability to Print or Export Data

No, there aren't any built in reporting tools. I don't know if WordPress perhaps some sort of plugin available to achieve what you want so perhaps you could look into that?

Re: Ability to Print or Export Data

Wouldn't that be as simple as exporting all the necessary column fields through PhpMyAdmin as an CSV for excel file?

And then somehow print all the ads off from the excel spreadsheet after it's formatted? :mrgreen:

I think I'm going to suggest to David to develop this sort of 'browse all ads' feature and then a button somewhere on that 'browse all ads' to allow 'download all ads in PDF', that will be really cool!

This has the potential to become another weapon to the arsenal for newsletter/local ads publishers.

And then, to expand further on that, we can have more tick box functions such as:
Download all ads in PDF
Download ads in PDF from a certain category
- Category 1
- Category 2
- Etc

Maybe others have suggested this idea to David? and perhaps it's already been incorporated into Classipress v3.0? :mrgreen:
Anyhow, I'm off to buying my developer classipress now than later as the almighty v3.0 is comin' out very soon.

Re: Ability to Print or Export Data

Thanks guys for the responses!

I am not sure who David is, but I have been working on this concept for some time. I wanted to know if the theme provided the function, and it clearly doesn't, but yes the database dump was my third choice. I also have a couple of guys looking at developing a plugin that will handle the exporting into the required format.

Thanks again
Bryce

Re: Ability to Print or Export Data

David is the ClassiPress owner/developer :)