Thread:QuickNick/@comment-28169398-20171119035434/@comment-28169398-20171119194518

QuickNick wrote: Hi.

I was thinking the same thing myself. It's a standard wiki table with the "filterable" option. I don't know but I would have thought that if it were possible then it would already be there! Would be nice.

I'm not a fan of the page, it highlights one of the problems with the wiki, everything is static, it would be so much better if it could be driven by a back-end database, you submit a query and the results are returned ... a bit like the My Real Racing ... Events page. It would also mean that one data-set could drive all of the pages as opposed to static pages duplicating data and introducing mistakes. But then it wouldn't be an editable wiki like it now is!

Nick The Database could be a single flat file stored as an editable page. Not great from a data integrity stand point, but then this isn't a financial services site either. It would keep in the spirit of the Wiki.

The main issue though is that Events are populated as articles, so that means that the database is populated from the pages, sort of like how you Cars and Available Races does it. It speeds the dissemination of information that way, especially with SEs or LTSs, but it decentralizes everything which makes other aspects more challenging to maintain.

Would there maybe an option to download as a CSV file? That way it would be a one or two click download, then an import into Excel. Though that may not be such a good idea if that code cannot be locked down. Too many opportunities for people to coopt it for not so good reasons.