Desktopeditors: Change CSV delimiter/separator when saving

Created on 12 Jan 2018 · 7Comments · Source: ONLYOFFICE/DesktopEditors

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
Feature

What is the current behavior?
There seems to be no way to set a CSV separator different than comma when saving as CSV. Can't choose a delimiter either. I found out the doc mentions it, but those options don't seem to be available in the desktop version.

Which versions of DesktopEditors, and which OS are affected by this issue? Did this work in previous versions of DesktopEditors?
4.8.6.386

enhancement

Source

markkuit

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Most helpful comment

I can confirm CSV is still _very_ much used in data exchange (which is, incidentally, the case I needed it for) and quite often the separator is not comma. This is literally the only issue preventing me from using and recommending ONLYOFFICE in my work day and work place.

markkuit on 22 Jan 2018

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All 7 comments

I imagine someone coming across this and saying CSV is dead and no one uses it but I've seen a surprising number of cases where the use of various CSV file types are alive and well. Also if you're saving conversational text data, comma-delimited can cause problems because most conversational data will have commas. Some other separator is ideal.

I can't say whether or not this should be a priority for the ONLYOFFICE team, only that it's not a dead format. I can say that LibreOffice already has a pretty good lock on broad format capability, with their CSV options pictured below:

If the priority for ONLYOFFICE is usability and good object management, that won't hurt my feelings.

vatterspun on 13 Jan 2018

markkuit on 22 Jan 2018

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Is this in the roadmap by any chance yet?

markkuit on 8 Sep 2020

Can't believe this was reported in 2018 and to this day no one did anything... Now that most distros are using OnlyOffice this became a huge problem

EddFigueiredo on 31 Mar 2021

Sorry, currently there is no news regarding this issue.
Also in 2018 we forgot to mention here, but this is issue 36923 in our private issue tracker.

Rita-Bubnova on 31 Mar 2021

I (and my team) simply since ended up switching to another office solution, as the disregard for this was absurd to deal with.

markkuit on 31 Mar 2021

Someone just brought ONLYOFFICE to my attention, but not being able to set the delimiter (and, to a lesser extent, character encoding) when saving a CSV is a deal breaker for me. It is the first thing I tested as it is something we use regularly. I hope to be able to revisit your office suite in the future when this basic functionality is added.