APAC SD Team
Category
Report Builder
Product Version
7.4
Write data back to the database via a webform
Not Planned
Users are hooked to Excel to keep data and alter it. But why not maintain that data in Yellowfin? For instance a salesbudget of store information. When it's possible to insert/update/delete the data in a table via a webform, then there is less need for Excel sheets.
For instance via this: https://fancygrid.com/samples/edit/form
Maybe it could be integrated in the new 7.4 ETL module as a webform component?
I like this idea 
Thanks for the feedback Jurgen. hope you had a good weekend!
I hear what you're saying, and something that has been discussed in the past. Unfortunately at this point in time YF will remain to focus on BI reporting, and not delve to deep into data manipulation.
We have just got our toes wet with the new Data Transformation, and something we will continue to invest time in, though no plans to manipulate existing data directly.
...if we do get more of a demand for this, we will definitely revisit.
Sorry for the bad news on this!
Regards,
David
Thanks for the feedback Jurgen. hope you had a good weekend!
I hear what you're saying, and something that has been discussed in the past. Unfortunately at this point in time YF will remain to focus on BI reporting, and not delve to deep into data manipulation.
We have just got our toes wet with the new Data Transformation, and something we will continue to invest time in, though no plans to manipulate existing data directly.
...if we do get more of a demand for this, we will definitely revisit.
Sorry for the bad news on this!
Regards,
David
I am CTO at FancyGrid.
For us it would very pleased to have such cool client as Yellowfin.
I am CTO at FancyGrid.
For us it would very pleased to have such cool client as Yellowfin.
David,
This has not been addressed in 6 years. Is this still not planned? In fact, I believe with the Yellowfin 8.0 release it was possible, just not native. Let me ask it this way.. I have had a couple of users ask if there is a way to add a note to a table or a checkbox to address issues.
Thanks,
Zack
David,
This has not been addressed in 6 years. Is this still not planned? In fact, I believe with the Yellowfin 8.0 release it was possible, just not native. Let me ask it this way.. I have had a couple of users ask if there is a way to add a note to a table or a checkbox to address issues.
Thanks,
Zack
Hi Zack,
I hope all is well,
From what I can see this did not move forward with getting said Idea implemented. Going forward let me discuss this with the wider team to see if there is any updates.
Regards,
Mark
Hi Zack,
I hope all is well,
From what I can see this did not move forward with getting said Idea implemented. Going forward let me discuss this with the wider team to see if there is any updates.
Regards,
Mark
Hi Zack,
I hope all is well,
I have since discussed this with the wider team here at Yellowfin, from what we discussed we very much doubt said feature will make it to Yellowfin (as David stated), however, we have seen some clients implement something similar by building their own web form, and calling that using a custom url.
This can be enabled in a report by formatting a column as a link to url or even an action button; https://wiki.yellowfinbi.com/display/yfcurrent/Column+Formatting#ColumnFormatting-Actionbuttonformattersettings
The url can include values from the report row that is clicked, of which you can have a button that says "update" or "add a note" or something along the ideas of that. By doing this, the client is then in control of coding safely the update to their data, including confirming any security the user would be required to have.
In addition Zack, it might also be possible to build a write back using code mode on a Dashboard but I suspect that is probably overkill for this requirement.
Let me know your thoughts on this.
Regards,
Mark
Hi Zack,
I hope all is well,
I have since discussed this with the wider team here at Yellowfin, from what we discussed we very much doubt said feature will make it to Yellowfin (as David stated), however, we have seen some clients implement something similar by building their own web form, and calling that using a custom url.
This can be enabled in a report by formatting a column as a link to url or even an action button; https://wiki.yellowfinbi.com/display/yfcurrent/Column+Formatting#ColumnFormatting-Actionbuttonformattersettings
The url can include values from the report row that is clicked, of which you can have a button that says "update" or "add a note" or something along the ideas of that. By doing this, the client is then in control of coding safely the update to their data, including confirming any security the user would be required to have.
In addition Zack, it might also be possible to build a write back using code mode on a Dashboard but I suspect that is probably overkill for this requirement.
Let me know your thoughts on this.
Regards,
Mark
Hi Zack,
I hope all is well,
I just want to touch base to see if you had chance to read through my previous response, if you could get some feedback back to me, that would be great.
Regards,
Mark
Hi Zack,
I hope all is well,
I just want to touch base to see if you had chance to read through my previous response, if you could get some feedback back to me, that would be great.
Regards,
Mark
Hi Mark,
this is an old ticket, since we have developed our own Excel import module, it's build in Code Mode.
A user can upload Excel files, specify the columns, etc. and Import/Append the files when they want from a dashboard.
So we made our own fix for this.
Regards, Jurgen
Hi Mark,
this is an old ticket, since we have developed our own Excel import module, it's build in Code Mode.
A user can upload Excel files, specify the columns, etc. and Import/Append the files when they want from a dashboard.
So we made our own fix for this.
Regards, Jurgen
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