Feature Request: Large Data Editor

[CNelsen]

We receive a lot of network messages from 3rd party vendors that arrive in numerous text formats. Some are comma delimited some are fixed length columns. We normally store these in one large text field.

I would like to see a parsed text tab on the Large Data Editor that could use a user defined config file to parse the data based on a delimiter or column size specification. With the option to choose different configurations from a pull-down box.

I didn't see any documentation on the Plug-In specifications that led me to believe you could add this as a plug-in, but if it can, I'd be interested in the relevant documentation.

so far we've been using the external tab to export it to Excel, but this is clunky, and Excel is a little to heavy and cumbersome for simple text parsing.

Any additional suggestions would be appreciated as well.
Thanks,
Christian

 

[Marco Kalter]

I have added this to the list of enhancement requests. Right now the best solution is indeed an external application. Instead of excel you could create a little text viewer/editor that can format the text as needed. By using the "Execute automatically next time" option in the Large Data Editor, the resulting process should be quite efficient.