Hello, Before I get down in this and start running into dead ends, I wanted to run this concept by all the people with experience and see if it makes sense.
Basically I have a need for users to share data that starts as personal spreadsheet files. They aren't sharing pictures, music, or any other data beyond a 4-column spreadsheet in a csv file. Each user comes to the program with their own spreadsheet that's been a part of a legacy computer program. The data is accessed multiple times daily. Because each user's spreadsheet is local, it has evolved and been customized and may look different than another user's local data. A user might have anywhere from 100 to 500 rows of data in their spreadsheet. So putting all of these spreadsheets on the web for collaboration is the point of my project. Collaboration would be at the row level, as each is basically a record. It seems pretty important that people be able to upload their original file and also be able to download files from the collaboration site. I've been following App Engine for a while now, I've been tinkering with it, and I like it. Up until recently I was working on a project to prepare the spreadsheet (csv) files for upload by the web site. The problem is: Uploading a csv is an admin function. It's not one for basic users. And the uploading part is important for my application to be useful. This seems like a dealbreaker. I thought of having users email the csv file in and set up an automatic import of those files, but I wonder how fast and reliable that would be. Any layer of difficulty -- each step between the user and their data -- will discourage use. So my next thought was google spreadsheets data API. Here the user could have all their csv files stored as spreadsheets. This would overcome the difficulty with user data uploads into App Engine. Is this a reasonable thought? Am I missing some really easy way to set up a webform for user csv file uploads? It really does seem like the datastore is limited to just user blob uploads. Is that right? Thank you for any ideas/suggestions you might have. Take care, Mark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
