Export Feature

[luke-]

TBD

[samuk]

I'm considering trying the Wiki in a space & this was a key feature for me.

@marc-farre could we generate some kind of export here?

[marc-farre]

@luke- @samuk What file format have you in mind?

• Markdown: easy for the text, but needs to be packed in a zip file if we want to export the attached files too (such as images)
• ODT: requires a library, e.g. https://github.com/PHPOffice/PHPWord (we already include phpoffice/phpspreadsheet in HumHub)

We already can export in PDF:

[samuk]

Maybe Markdown or html with images would be good? Would it be possible to preserve the internal links?

So users get a zip of the complete wiki they could open and navigate locally? Or even upload to some generic webhosting as a static site?

[marc-farre]

I don't think there is any value exporting HTML compared to other formats.
I think links should be changed to the local file. E.g. https://community.humhub.com/file/file/download?guid=b82974ee-df0e-4f91-bee2-2ef26afcb26d&hash_sha1=2caf7370#.jpeg -> file-name.jpeg

@luke- Should the export be for a specific page or all wiki pages of a space?

[samuk]

I'd personally want this for all pages. It's the interlinked nature that gives a knowledge base value.

[luke-]

@luke- Should the export be for a specific page or all wiki pages of a space?

I was thinking more of a single page, but with included files it gets more complicated.

[samuk]

The use case here for me is allowing users to export their wiki's in a useful way. The value of a wiki is in part it's interlinked nature so would prefer a full export if possible

[squeezer44]

The export to pdf is a good starting point in my opinion and very useful to give away single pages.

But in our environment the usecase often raise: working together on an existing wiki-sections together with many people (build social triggered content).

And from organizers point of view it would be very helpful to have the ability to trigger an export of a section or single page.
Export means: text including references and embedded objects.
Content format could be Markdown and export format could be zip.

[marc-farre]

@squeezer44 have you tried this solution?

1/ Select the section:

2/ Print:

3/ Export in PDF:

[atdqm]

In terms of functionality and user friendliness, being able to export a wiki either by page or the entire wiki would be helpful to my HumHub users. For now we're using the print to PDF but would be very happy to have a module that could do this.

[squeezer44]

@marc-farre
I totally agree what @atdqm said: the existing PrintToPDF function is a nice gadget for regular Users to export and use single pages.
But from admins or Community Managers perspective it not covers the use case adequate - it needs more than this.
The correspondent use cases are e.g.:

As a Community Manager, I need to be able to migrate WikiPageSection from one space to another space to be used in there (not possible to do this with pdf).

As an admin, I need to create a snapshot of a wiki / a wikisection for backup purpose before 20 persons of my community starts developing their wiki tomorrow morning (not possible with pdf).