New version of the exports plugin available

[Thom Brooks]

I created a multi-column outline in OOP (about the current state of vendors 
who offer "Donate now, online!" type services, if anyone is interested.) The 
report includes the URL for each company's website.

I then realized I needed to share it with folks from my camp. 
(http://www.specialdays.org/ )

Crap, everyone else is on a PC. But wait a minute...
Woo, the Excel plugin! I got excited and installed it, exported from OOP and 
opened the XML file in Excel.

Then I realized that all of those nifty 'URL Objects' (I guess they're 
called Attachments - funny, I just typed in some text) didn't get exported. I 
checked the XML source to be sure. Then a few minutes later, Excel crashed, 
too. (I didn't do anything -- I was too busy writing this email!)

Is this a known issue? Is there an easy fix?

In the meantime, can I just tell OOP to stop being so #$@%#$@% 'clever' and 
just keep my URLs as text, so they'll export properly? I tried changing the 
View -> attachments to be 'Inline', which makes them _look_ normal, but I 
suspect they're still being stored in that nifty way internally.

More importantly, can I convert a bunch of existing URL objects ... 
attachments... whatever... to be just basic text, like I typed in the first 
place?!? (I know: how about a new column type: 'Poor text'? Get it? ;)

I also note that clicking on the column name (in 'select' mode, not edit) 
appears to pick the entire column. Great! But the option to 'Copy' the whole 
column to the clipboard is grayed out. (I had this wacky idea that maybe I 
could copy and paste an OOP column into Excel. Please stop laughing at me.)

Then I tried dragging just this selected column into an empty OOP document, 
but only succeeded in reordering that column in the existing document.

(steam rising from forehead... I should have just started retyping everything 
in Excel)

Thanks,

Thom Brooks
Special Days Camps


On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, James Moore wrote:

> I've finally had time to work on some more exporters for OmniOutliner Pro. 
> The new version of the export plugin includes a rudimentary Excel (XML) 
> exporter and the LaTeX exporter that's been mostly done for over a year. You 
> can download the new plugin from

> Please send all of your feedback to omnioutliner at omnigroup.com.