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Ext JS Data-driven Application Design

You're reading from   Ext JS Data-driven Application Design Learn how to build a user-friendly database in Ext JS using data from an existing database with this step-by-step tutorial. Takes you from first principles right through to implementation.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2013
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781782165446
Length 162 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kazuhiro Kotsutsumi Kazuhiro Kotsutsumi
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Designing Import and Export


Let's start by thinking about the Quotation table. Because Bill is mostly the same as Quotation, we'll just implement Quotation here. Try this implementation with Bill, as well by yourself. First, we'll add an Export and Import button in the Quotation list, so that it begins to function. Next, we'll make the file start downloading when the Export button is pressed. We'll add a new panel so that we can visually check the selected data that we are about to import. So let's go ahead and create this type of data import and export functions.

Data format

At first, when exporting, let's consider the data format in which it will be downloaded. This time, we're thinking of outputting in the TSV format instead of CSV or XML. TSV is easier for the developers to read and it's very simple to generate with JavaScript. The following list shows the order of output.

Quotation and Quotations are outputted in a single file. In the case of quotation, the order of output is as follows...

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