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Improvement
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Minor
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None
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2.7, 3.3.3, 3.4
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MOODLE_27_STABLE, MOODLE_33_STABLE, MOODLE_34_STABLE
damyon suggested that rather than exporting completion data in the existing plain CSV format which is compatible with Excel and other software, as Moodle currently does, we should perhaps recode the export to instead use the patented Microsoft Excel 2007 format. That would be done using excellib.class.php
Microsoft states that as long as we're in strict conformance with their terms they won't sue under any of the several patents related to the Excel 2007 format.
- is duplicated by
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MDL-51752 make course-completion list download as EXCEL available.
- Closed
- Testing discovered
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MDL-45452 Completion report: Date format for "Excel-compatible format" CSV export updated to use excel compatible format
- Closed
- will be (partly) resolved by
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MDL-51603 Refactor downloading of csv, ods, excel etc files in reports and exports across moodle to stream progressively
- Closed