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PYBOSSA is the ultimate crowdsourcing framework (aka microtasking) to analyze or enrich data that can't be processed by machines alone.
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Suggestion: Create tasks from Google spreadsheet. #185

Closed gka closed 12 years ago

gka commented 12 years ago

Why not allow users to create tasks on pybossa.com by providing a url of a Google spreadsheet. The spreadsheet need to store one row per task, and each column would be stored in the task.info dictionary. The first row of the table would need to contain simple and unique keys for each column.

I suggest that after the tasks have been created, no further syncing between the spreadsheet and PyBossa should be done. Instead we should allow to delete all tasks at once (in preparation of uploading a new set of tasks).

This feature would significantly simplify the creation of PyBossa apps for journalists. At the same time, it shouldn't be that hard to implement.

What do you think?

rufuspollock commented 12 years ago

@gka good idea which is why I think it already exists in #121 - take a look and check whether this fits and is what you want?

gka commented 12 years ago

Right, this is a duplicate of #121 :) Closing.