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Implement export
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@wbustraan Also, is this a current feature? Thank you for all your help!
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This is currently available in the iOS version. I will be catching the Android version up, feature-wise, likely within the week
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Thank you!
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How do you use the export feature?
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The export feature will create a file in "CSV" format, or "Comma Separated Values". It is a text file where each line in the file is a record and the individual fields are separated by commas. The most common application that can open this type of file is a spreadsheet application like Microsoft Excel or LibreOffice Calc.
Many users (of the iOS version, since it has been there longer) like to pull the data into a spreadsheet so that they can slice and dice it in ways that the Mother Hen app doesn't support.
Both the egg history and the finances history can be exported like this. On Android there is a menu item on the 'triple dot' menu for both of those screens. Clicking it will bring up a sharing menu where you can choose an app to receive the data. If you don't have any app on your phone that can read CSV, then you can either email it to yourself, save it to Google Drive, or some other method of transferring it to a computer.
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Oh okay! There's no export for flock then, correct?
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No, not yet. The data in the flock area is less "spreadsheet-like", so I was having difficulty coming up with a purpose for exporting the flock. With the finances data, it makes sense to create things like line graphs or pie charts, because the data changes over time, but in the flock data, each record represents one bird.
If there was the ability to export the flock, what would you want to do with it?
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