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cjhendrix / HXLator-SpaceAppsVersion

A repository for the Space Apps Challenge to develop a data translator from spreadsheets in ad hoc formats to the Humanitarian Exchange Language.
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Handling discontinuous data blocks #1

Open cjhendrix opened 12 years ago

cjhendrix commented 12 years ago

Spreadsheets may have discontinous data blocks. For example, the shelter spreadsheet has "total" rows interspersed within the data block. We could treat those as separate rows of data (though the locations wouldn't parse since "Total Artibonite" is not a location although Artibonite is a location), but we probably need a way for a user to select discontinuous blocks of data.

femmerling commented 12 years ago

will try working on this one, would require multiple selection, the logic is quite complicated but should be possible

andreaskundig commented 12 years ago

Instead of using selection, we could let the user hide rows and columns, and then send only the visible part of the spreadsheet as hxl. I think it's more intuitive than multiple selection, and the logic is possibly less complicated.

cjhendrix commented 12 years ago

That seems like a good approach. --cj

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 10:36 AM, andreaskundig < reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

Instead of using selection, we could let the user hide rows and columns, and then send only the visible part of the spreadsheet as hxl. I think it's more intuitive than multiple selection, and the logic is possibly less complicated.

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femmerling commented 12 years ago

agreed...will do it this way