I’m building a plugin to add new exports in the users section. Instead to add new controller for every export I would like to extend the ExportCsvController and add new actions to it. How can I achieve this? Thanks

What problem my are you solving? Could the data explorer plugin solve it? If not, you can have a look at it, as it adds a route and exports csv.

Thanks for your reply. I need to create two new exports: users with membership groups categories with related groups I would like to add these two exports inside the ExportCsvController without creating new controller for every export. Yes, the data explorer could solve the problem but the client for whom I am building the forum is not technical so exporting to CSV is the only way to show him the data. The plugin is not adding a new method for an existing rails controller but it is creating a new controller for the data explorer logic.

The data explorer plugin will let them download a csv. And if you want you can automate it by downloading the file directly with the API.

[image] maaatt: so exporting to CSV is the only way to show him the data With the Data Explorer plugin, you have a button to export in CVS or JSON (and, recently, even one to show a graph). You can also allow specific groups to access the query (if we are not talking about admin users here) [image] Then, the user can see a Reports on the group page. He can run the query, and then he can export the results to CSV. [image] Would that work?

Yes it can work but the user need to know how to write down a SQL query right?

You (the admin) create the SQL, and the user can run the query – the users can’t create or edit. What the user sees is a list of queries they can run: [image] [image]

Add new action in rails controller

Development

maaatt March 6, 2024, 3:05pm 8

Ok thanks, I will try to investigate if this solution can work for our customers.

Topic		Replies	Views
Export topics to Excel Product Support	12	1600	March 30, 2021
Make data explorer available to moderators Feature pr-welcome , data-explorer	37	6077	February 10, 2020
Discourse Data Explorer Plugin official , data-explorer , included-in-core	30	87462	October 22, 2025
Howto/doc on 'data explorer' Product Support	15	1181	October 30, 2024
Allowing moderators to administrate certain plugins? Development	1	110	December 2, 2024

Add new action in rails controller

Related topics