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Problem exporting entries

  1. digiman1
    Member

    This is a little different exporting problem: I'm wanting to look at the data from the entries to my form. I go to Import/Export, select "Export Entries", pick my form from the drop down, select all to get all the fields, leave the date range blank, and go to the bottom to select "Download Export File."

    The file downloads fine, but - although it's entitled xxxxxxx.CSV, it's in fact an XML file. Opening/importing it in Excel shows me... an XML file contents, not a stack of fields and data.

    If I go to export XML - *that* works, i.e. I (also) get an XML.... but, I want the data, not the form.

    Now - this is in Firefox (which my client is using...) If I try it in IE8 - no problem. Exporting entries gets me a bona-fide CSV, exporting forms gets me XML.

    So.... any thoughts on what's happening differently in Firefox?

    Thanks,

    Chris

    Posted 14 years ago on Thursday November 4, 2010 | Permalink
  2. Sounds like you are in the wrong area. In the Import/Export menu you can choose to Export Entries, Export Forms or Import Forms.

    Export Forms and Import Forms works using an XML file. This is for exporting and importing forms themselves, not form entries.

    Export Entries is where you go to export entry data. This outputs a CSV file.

    It sounds like you are using the Export Form tool and not the Export Entries tool.

    Posted 14 years ago on Thursday November 4, 2010 | Permalink
  3. digiman1
    Member

    Well... Maybe I *am* getting it wrong.... here's what I'm doing:

    1) Left side dashboard, in the "Forms" section, I pick the "Import/Export" link.

    2) On the resulting Export page (...gf_export) there are three links at the top;
    Export Entries | Export Forms | Import Forms ... I pick "Export Entries".

    3) On the resulting "Export Form Entries" page (...gf_export&view=export_entry) I choose my form from the drop-down box.

    4) Choosing my form in the drop-down results in a long list of my form fields; I pick "select all".

    5) After "select all" checks all the form field boxes I scroll to the bottom.

    6) I leave the date ranges blank

    7) I pick the "Download Export File" button.

    8) Firefox Downloads offers to save the download file, called "......2010-11-04.csv"

    9) A file entitled ".....2010-11-04.csv" is downloaded.

    10) If I look at the first few lines of that file in notepad, they read:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en-US">
    <head>
    <title>Visage Creative › Log In</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://visagecreative.com/wp-content/plugins/fancybox-for-wordpress/css/fancybox.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />

    <style type="text/css">
    div#fancy_inner {border-color:#BBBBBB}
    div#fancy_close {right:-15px;top:-12px} .................

    But, if I follow the same process in IE, the first few lines of the identically named file are:

    "Your Name:","Your Title:","Community Name:","Shipping Address:","City:","State:","ZIP:","Your email:","Your phone:","Your Fax:","Door Hangers","250 qty | $135 (plus tax)","500 qty | $220 (plus tax)","1000 qty | $340 (plus tax)","250 qty | $135 (plus tax)","500 qty | $220 (plus tax)","1000 qty | $340 ........

    So - it appears to me that I *am* following the "entries" process, and not the "form" process, its just that in FF, for whatever reason, although it creates a file with a CSV *name*, the content is the same as the XML (form) export file.

    Thanks for the help on this (LOVE Gravity Forms!),

    Chris

    Posted 14 years ago on Thursday November 4, 2010 | Permalink
  4. That isn't an XML file or a CSV file. That is an HTML file. It looks like FireFox is downloading an HTML page and saving it as the CSV.

    What operating system, operating system version and which version of FireFox are you running?

    Posted 14 years ago on Friday November 5, 2010 | Permalink