[ckan-dev] Offering the same resource in multiple file formats

Tue Mar 7 13:19:24 UTC 2017

Hi everybody,

I often would like to offer the same resource in multiple file formats. 
For example, Excel's auto-import for CSV is rather broken, so instead of 
mangling all our CSV-files to suit Excel's needs I'd rather just offer 
XSLX-files of the same data in addition to "standard"-compliant CSV-files 
for everybody else.

However, I definitely don't want to manually maintain the separate 
versions. Has anybody set up automated ways of doing this? Off the top of 
my head, I could image

1. Generating converted copies when the original resource is 
created/modified
2. Generating converted copies when they are requested

Both have their pros and cons, so I'd love the hear some real-world 
experiences.

In addition I'm wondering about the best way to present this choice to the 
user.

Regards,
Florian
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