[pmwiki-users] Question: How to add data to a wiki page that displaying a spreadsheet information

[V.Krishn]

On Monday 11 Jan 2010 8:29:45 pm Graham Archer wrote:
>  Hello,
>
>  I would like to ask for some advice on how best to go about this request
> from a wiki user.
>
>
> Would like to upload a spreadsheet and display the data on a wiki page in a
> readable format. Would then also like to use a wiki form to update/change
> data that is displayed in the wiki page (derived from the spreadsheet).

Please have a look at
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Txtdb
and the working sample at:
http://insteps.net/pr/a/pmwiki/Cookbook/Txtdb-sample1

Though this recipe is experimental/alpha but I think it might be able to do 
what you are wanting with spreedsheet data.
Though I would not recommend it for critical or data intensive operations.

>
>
>  I thought about displaying the spreadsheet as table and then using a fox
> form to "somehow" get the addition data into it, but I' not sure how I
> would get a template to work in this manner. In short I'm confused about
> how to go about this.
>
>  Any hints/tips on how to (better) proceed with this would be much
> appreciated.
>
>  Thanks
>
>  Graham



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Regards,
V.Krishn