Excel Copy Buffer Plugin

Description

Just like Excel you can select multiple cell and copy (Ctrl+C) and paste to Excel (Ctrl+V). However what you must know is that this plugin evaluate every single cell by their values (the raw value unless you specify otherwise, continue reading for more info).

Demo

with Inline Editor

Demo Page / Demo Component

with Localization

Demo Page / Demo Component

Usage

All you need to do is enable the Grid Option enableExcelCopyBuffer: true and give it a try. From your grid, start selecting multiple cells with the mouse then copy (with Ctrl+C) and paste to Excel (with Ctrl+V)

Component

this.columnDefinitions = [
  { id: 'title', name: 'Title', field: 'id' },
  { id: 'description', name: 'Description', field: 'description' },
  { id: 'duration', name: 'Duration (days)', field: 'duration', type: FieldType.number },
];
this.gridOptions = {
  enableExcelCopyBuffer: true,
};

Copy & Paste with Cell Formatter

What if you have a date in UTC format in your dataset but your grid shows it as a Date ISO format? In that case, you are using a Formatter (e.g. formatter: Formatters.dateIso) and you wish to use that formatter. Good news, that is supported with and to make is simpler for the implementation, we will use a flag that already exist which is exportWithFormatter and is used by the Export to File service (for more info, read Wiki - Export to File

The exportWithFormatter can be used in 2 ways, on each column definition independently or for the entire grid through it's grid option.

exportWithFormatter through each Column Definition

this.columnDefinitions = [
  {
    id: 'start', name: 'Start', field: 'start',
    formatter: Formatters.dateIso,
    exportWithFormatter: true
  },
  {
    id: 'finish', name: 'Finish', field: 'finish',
    formatter: Formatters.dateIso,
    exportWithFormatter: true
  },
];
this.gridOptions = {
  enableExcelCopyBuffer: true,
};

exportWithFormatter through Grid Options

this.columnDefinitions = [
  { id: 'start', name: 'Start', field: 'start', formatter: Formatters.dateIso },
  { id: 'finish', name: 'Finish', field: 'finish', formatter: Formatters.dateIso },
];
this.gridOptions = {
  enableExcelCopyBuffer: true,
  exportOptions: {
    // set at the grid option level, meaning all column will evaluate the Formatter (when it has a Formatter defined)
    exportWithFormatter: true
  },
};

Sanitize Formatter Ouput

In some cases a Formatter can be formed of HTML and that will end up showing in your Copy+Paste. You can simply use the sanitizeDataExport flag which will remove any HTML tags from the output. For an example below, let say that our first Title column are all displayed in bold in the grid (e.g. <b>Title 1</b>), we want to sanitize that output a regular text output (e.g. Title 1)

exportWithFormatter through each Column Definition

this.columnDefinitions = [
  {
    id: 'title', name: 'Title', field: 'id',
    formatter: Formatters.bold,
    exportWithFormatter: true,
    sanitizeDataExport: true
  }
];
this.gridOptions = {
  enableExcelCopyBuffer: true
};

exportWithFormatter through Grid Options

this.columnDefinitions = [
  { id: 'title', name: 'Title', field: 'id', formatter: Formatters.bold }
];
this.gridOptions = {
  enableExcelCopyBuffer: true,
  exportOptions: {
    exportWithFormatter: true,
    sanitizeDataExport: true
  },
};