Suggestions to improve search node events page

[cyprien-griot]

Greetings all,

After a few experiments, we noticed it could be interesting to have the possibility of :

• sorting search results according to columns
• exporting results into a csv file (or something similar)

Thank you in advance.
Regards,
Cyprien

[cyprien-griot]

Greetings,

This features request has popped up again within our team.
Is this something that could be doable ?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,
Cyprien

[beaudu]

In the release v2.5 the CSV export is now available. For the search result sorting by columns, it is still to be done.

[beaudu]

Some comments on the future development. Presently the strategie of vsearch.pl script is:

1. events are selected from the criteria with searchEvents() sub (lines 479-555) that uses external commands (find, grep, awk, ...) and returns the list of event filenames in array @finalEvents;
2. the filenames contain node ID and start date/time of the event, so it is possible to sort by date or revert date at that point (see lines 200 and 201).
3. in a loop, events are read and decoded one by one and displayed as a html table.

So in order to sort events on other criteria (node alias, feature, author, etc...), events must be read and decoded first and stored in some array or hash, then sorted, then displayed in a different loop.