Comments on: EditGrid: Really Useful Web-Based Spreadsheets

By: Britta

Britta — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:06:00 +0000

Thank you, very useful informations for me to manage my editgrid data.

By: Graeme Davidson

Graeme Davidson — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 15:30:08 +0000

Thank you so much – I am going to use this in my business development by getting everyone in our company to use it for my benefit.
Thanks for the tutorial – although my girlfriend won’t as I’ll be playing around with Editgrid all weekend!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:07:22 +0000

Good stuff – thanks for the tutorial

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 23:30:42 +0000

Jason: Yeah, the “actual outflow” column is not actually related to specific line items but rather the “amount of cash which has left my wallet as of the date of the blog entry”. So for instance, where it starts to diverge is the architecture fee. I’m signed up for $49k or so but all I’ve paid so far is my first payment of $9600.

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:38:23 +0000

Is there a story behind the “cost” and “actual outflow” amounts for “survey”? :)

By: Andy Borgmann

Andy Borgmann — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:11:12 +0000

This is fantastic! Thanks for the heads up on this one.

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:44:44 +0000

Actually, I misspoke. EditGrid outputs to those formats with zero clicks. You just add the appropriate extension:http://www.editgrid.com/user/mikeindustries/House_Expenses.html http://www.editgrid.com/user/mikeindustries/House_Expenses.xml http://www.editgrid.com/user/mikeindustries/House_Expenses.pdfetc etc etc

By: Mike D.

Mike D. — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 16:33:51 +0000

alvin: Thanks for the tip. I’m sure Google’s implementation is plenty easy… it just didn’t look like it from the API. As for outputting to HTML, XML, and other formats with one click, EditGrid does that too I believe, but the trick for me was not so much outputting the entire spreadsheet, but outputting it in a format such that I could just use particular rows of it depending on what was in the blog entry. Nice, clean, semantic XML seemed like the best way to do this, although comma or tab delimited would of course work as well.

By: alvin

alvin — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:21:43 +0000

but… but… having used both, Google is actually much simpler (3 clicks and your data is out there) and offer more data output option. And since you are using curl you can just do exactly the same thing :)

here’s a screenshot of the UI http://alvinwoon.com/dev/screenshot/2008-09-09_0917.png

and here’s a public data of my movie listing – http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p-CI3CQthxMupDZqHm3gCFQ&output=txt (I use tab delimited instead of xml but you can use any type of output that suits you :) )