Importing tables into Kexi

[Jaroslaw Staniek]

On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 21:40, Swarup <dinbandhu at sprynet.com> wrote:

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> On 8/6/20 3:20 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
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> On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 20:04, Swarup <dinbandhu at sprynet.com> wrote:
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>> On 8/6/20 1:22 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
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>> On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 19:14, Swarup <dinbandhu at sprynet.com> wrote:
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>>> On 8/6/20 12:54 PM, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
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>>> Hi Swarup
>>> KEXI can import individual tables from CSV at the moment.
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>>> If that is the case then why is the .csv file I browse to greyed out in
>>> the import window. The import function is not permitting me to select the
>>> file of type .csv for import.
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>> "External Data -> Import Data from file" supports CSV.
>> "External Data -> Import tables" supports TSV which is a special
>> tab-based subset of CSV formats.
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>> Ok, I see how it works-- that is very good.
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>> Now: If I want to make adjustments in the parameters of the table, say,
>> increasing the number of columns beyond the number currently in the .csv
>> file, and increasing the number of characters permitted in a cell, do I do
>> that before or after carrying out the import procedure?
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> Before because altering table in-place is not supported at the moment.
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> But the table doesn't exist in Kexi until I import the .csv file. There is
> no table for which to go into design view and alter the parameters. Upon
> importing the .csv, the table gets created. So before importing the
> .csv,where is the table in which I would go into design view and add more
> columns, and increase the number of characters permitted per cell?
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That would be a good extra feature of the importer. I think it was not
planned because it is easier to envision one the table altering feature
that servers all the needs. Unfortunately that altering has not been
delivered yet.

One feature (altering) would be also less things to manage.


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>>> Also I wanted to point out that the CSV format:
>>> - does not define representation of multiple tables
>>> - does not define constraints like the permitted characters
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>>> This is all application defined. MDB defines it so it could be useful
>>> for the import.
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>>> On Thu, 6 Aug 2020 at 17:14, Swarup <dinbandhu at sprynet.com> wrote:
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>>>> Hi there,
>>>> So I have installed KDE Neon on my system using VM Ware, and by
>>>> installing kexi there found that the export function worked and I was able
>>>> to export my table from kexi, as a file of .csv format, which is perfect.
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>>>> I would like to now important that .csv table back into kexi, this time
>>>> adding more columns and increasing the number of permitted characters per
>>>> cell. So I brought the .csv file over to my Ubuntu OS, and in Ubuntu I
>>>> opened Kexi and opened the import function. However when I browse to the
>>>> folder where the .csv file is located, everything is grayed out including
>>>> the .csv file. Can Kexi import tables of type .csv, or does the file have
>>>> to be of type .mdb?
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>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Swarup
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regards, Jaroslaw Staniek

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