Can a subgrid be exported in angular ui-grid

Question

I'm using the grid from http://ui-grid.info/ in a project. I've created a hierarchical grid, which works nicely, but when I do an export, it only exports the data from the top-level grid.

This is by design and is standard functionality for the grid, so there's no point in me putting up any example code. Any example from http://ui-grid.info/docs/#/tutorial will do.

Is there a way to export the subgrid (preferably both the main grid AND the subgrid together as they appear in the grid)?

Answer 1

Sadly the answer is no.

As you can see here the function getData iterates through all rows and then through all columns, adding to an array of extractedFields the columns to be extracted and aggregating those in an array of extractedRows.

This means that no data, other than what's defined in gridOptions' columnDef will be read, converted and extracted.

By design, subgrid information are stored inside a property of any row entity's subGridOptions but this property is never accessed inside of the exporter feature.

The motivation behind this behaviour is that expandable grid feature is still at an alpha stage, so, supporting this in other features is not a compelling priority.

Furthermore, adding subgrid to a CSV could be quite hard to design, if we wanted to provide a general solution (for example I don't even think it would be compliant to CSV standard if you had different number of columns in the main grid and in subgrids).

That said, ui-grid is an open source project, so, if you have a working design in mind, feel free to open a discussion about it on the project gitHub page or, even better, if you can design a working (and tested) solution and create a pull request, even better!

Answer 2

I managed to get it working, although if I had the time I would do it a bit better than what I've done by actually creating a branch of the code and doing it properly, but given time constraints, what I've got is working nicely.

FYI, here's the way I ended up getting it to do what I wanted:

In my grid options, I turned off the CSV export options in the grid menu (because I've only implemented the changes for PDF).

I made a copy of exporter.js, named it custom.exporter.js and changed my reference to point to the new file.

In custom.exporter.js, I made a copy of the getData function and named it getGridRows. getGridRows is the same as getData, except it just returns the rows object without all the stuff that gets the columns and so on. For now, I'm coding it to work with a known set of columns, so I don't need all that.

I modified the pdfExport function to be as follows:

pdfExport: function (grid, rowTypes, colTypes) {
              var self = this;

              var exportData = self.getGridRows(grid, rowTypes, colTypes);

              var docContent = [];

              $(exportData).each(function () {
                  docContent.push(
                      {
                          table: {
                              headerRows: 1,
                              widths: [70, 80, 150, 180],
                              body: [
                                [{ text: 'Job Raised', bold: true, fillColor: 'lightgray' }, { text: 'Job Number', bold: true, fillColor: 'lightgray' }, { text: 'Client', bold: true, fillColor: 'lightgray' }, { text: 'Job Title', bold: true, fillColor: 'lightgray' }],
                                [formattedDateTime(this.entity.JobDate,false), this.entity.JobNumber, this.entity.Client, this.entity.JobTitle],
                              ]
                          }
                      });
                  var subGridContentBody = [];
                  subGridContentBody.push([{ text: 'Defect', bold: true, fillColor: 'lightgray' }, { text: 'Vendor', bold: true, fillColor: 'lightgray' }, { text: 'Status', bold: true, fillColor: 'lightgray' }, { text: 'Sign off', bold: true, fillColor: 'lightgray' }]);
                  $(this.entity.Defects).each(function () {
                      subGridContentBody.push([this.DefectName, this.DefectVendor, this.DefectStatus, '']);
                  });
                  docContent.push({
                      table: {
                          headerRows: 1,
                          widths: [159, 150, 50, 121],
                          body: subGridContentBody
                      }
                  });
                  docContent.push({ text: '', margin: 15 });
              });

              var docDefinition = {
                  content:  docContent
              }


              if (self.isIE()) {
                  self.downloadPDF(grid.options.exporterPdfFilename, docDefinition);
              } else {
                  pdfMake.createPdf(docDefinition).open();
              }
          }