chris at reigrut
Oct 22, 2009, 7:52 AM
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Re: Importing an Excel Spread sheet (Jan Steinman)
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Another slightly easier option is to use the SimpleTable extension
(http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:SimpleTable) to display a CSV
export.
> From: Jan Steinman <Jan [at] Bytesmiths
>> From: "DaveM" <davem [at] triumphtalk>
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>> Is there anyway to import a spreadsheet into my Wiki. I have quite a
>> bit of
>> information I need to place in my WiKi and it is on an excel
>> spreadsheet.
>> Now to have to make up tables for all this will take me forever so
>> is there
>> an easer way of getting this into my WikI beside just adding the
>> spread
>> sheet as a download
>>
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> <snip>
> Another way that's more interactive is to export them as CSV files,
> import them into their own tables in MySQL, then use the sql2wiki
> extension to display them. This is much more versatile, but can only
> be done on a trusted site, as you generally don't want just anyone
> sending arbitrary SQL to your database. You can also update and change
> the tables at will, and have the changes instantly show up on the wiki.
> </snip>
>
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