Html time export

[StephanRichter]

Hey, Philip. Ich bins mal wieder. Ich hatte ja schon mal irgendwann im Forum geschrieben, dass die gegenwärtige PDF-Export-Lösung unbefriedigend ist.
Ich habe deshalb die Zeiterfassung um eine html-Export-Funktion ergänzt. Die macht ein hübsche Tabelle, in der auch die html-Annotation hinhaut, und welche ich anschließend einfach als pdf drucken kann.

Schau dir's mal an ;)

liebe Grüße aus Jena,
Stephan

[philippK-de]

So this looks quite good in all. Just one thing: I'd like to see a compelling use case for this. What does this add that PDF and CSV export do not provide ?

[StephanRichter]

as i wrote in the forum, pdf export is unusable at the moment, as long texts in the comments field just get squezed into the column and thus unreadable.
a i normally use html formatting in the comments of the timetracking, those formattings happen to vanisch on csv export.
html export gives me both: proper line breaking and formatting. and with my pdf printer, i can generate an pdf, which is READABLE.

[philippK-de]

Sorry i find this wholly unconvincing. Yes it's true there are some problems with the comments field because it lacks automatic line break. Now, i don't see how the solution to that is to re-implement the export to create an html table.
Yes you can use that with a "PDF printer" - but few people use such a workflow.
Wouldn't it be better to fix the PDF export by including automatic line breaks ?

[StephanRichter]

Even if you don't print to pdf, it's at the moment the best solution to make a printable document, which fits a page, respects all html in the comments and can be viewed needing nothing more than a web browser.
And you are right, fixing the pdf thing would be a good thing, but i don't know so much about the pdf internals (or the internals of the pdftool you use) - so i did this workaround for my installation and afterwards just wanted to offer it to other users.

[philippK-de]

i'm not sure about this. i will think about it some more.