I admit it - I now call it a great addition, but initially was very skeptical about it. I mean - when we have csv, json, xml and xsl output, why on earth would we need html output??
For the most stupid reason you can imagine: Excel requires it!
Turns out that the only way for you to link to a external datasource in excel is to point to a html table. This means that now you'll be able to have your spreadsheet files with updated data - with no other plugins :)
Check it out in action:
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I'm sure this will be of great help to those that want to take advantage for their BI system but still be able to hack their own home-grown analysis.
See you soon!
Awesome, I'll be looking into this.
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