[Building Sakai] Exporting Grades to Excel in Gradebook

[Sam Ottenhoff]

Agree.  I also confirmed in Windows when you go to Region and Language, and
set your Decimal symbol, that Excel correctly changes the separator when
the cell is output from Sakai as a real number.

Committing SAK-19849 now.

--Sam

On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Aaron Zeckoski <azeckoski at unicon.net>wrote:

> Seems like Excel should probably handle that for them. I would argue
> for putting it in there as a real number.
> -AZ
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Sam Ottenhoff <ottenhoff at longsight.com>
> wrote:
> > Gradebook RosterBean.java runs the student score through a NumberFormat
> > operation that uses the preferred locale.  This causes the user score to
> > write to excel as a string (Excel text) instead of as a number.
> >
> > The question: do we need to format the score using the preferred locale?
>  Or
> > should the user's Excel do this for them?
> >
> > https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-19849 :: Grades exported to
> Excel
> > are "numbers as text"
> >
> > --Sam
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