[ckan-dev] handling xlsx files with Datapusher?

[Nigel Babu]

Hi Aaron,

This is great. If you can send a pull request, I'd be happy to review it!

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On 4 April 2014 06:50, Aaron McGlinchy <McGlinchyA at landcareresearch.co.nz>wrote:

> I solved my own problem
>
> We have now got CKAN pushing XLSX format excel files to the datastore, and
> previewing works.  We also got tab delimited text files to work (using .tsv
> as extension (trying .tab we couldn't get to  work)).
>
> Edit the config.ini file to include
>
> ckan.datapusher.formats = csv xls xlsx tsv application/csv
> application/vnd.ms-excel
> application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet
> application/vnd.ms-excel
>
> Perhaps the documentation could be updated to reflect this option (and/or
> the default config.ini setting updated)?
>
> Cheers
> Aaron
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> Sorry for cross post - thought I was sending to this list frst time.
>
> Hi - is it possible to get the datapusher (and hence preview) to handle
> xlsx (latest format excel) files as well as the older xls?  Wondered if
> something like
>
> ckan.datapusher.formats = csv xls xlsx
>
> Default value: csv xls xlsx application/csv application/vnd.ms-excel
> application/vnd.ms-excel application
>
> would work?
>
> Thanks
> Aaron
>
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