Author: FT2.wiki
Description:
Mockup showing how the extra formats might appear.
Checkuser currently has one output format, namely HTML "pretty layout". Unfortunately in many CU cases, a Checkuser needs to export this data to another application. A single checkuser run can contain up to 5000 results, which there is no easy way to sort or filter. Examples include:
- To export to a spreadsheet (eg Excel or Openoffice Calc) to allow sorting, filtering, and further processing on long reports
- To combine multiple CU run's (eg on possibly connected users or IPs) that normally cannot be shown on the Checkuser output together - eg to list 5 users' activities over the last while, in order of IP. (Some complex checks can need dozens of runs to acuqire all data, and that data cannot be combined within the confines of the extension or easily sorted and correlated.)
- To combine with existing checkuser runs, to correlate with past reports and look for significant items.
There is no means to do this except "HTML scraping", nor any CheckUser API interface. These are tremendously useful CU functions, and formats more amenable to exporting would greatly help checkusers on all projects.
Requested - that an "output option" is added to the CU extension, that allows a user to switch between normal (pretty HTML), sortable wikitable, and XML, output. (Tabular output can usually be copy/pasted directly into relevant applications if needed.)
Note that this isn't a change to the database usage, but purely an option to choose other useful output formats for the results. The idea would be that all three views are available on separate tabs, saving repeat runs from being needed.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
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