Hi ya,

ok i'm hoping this is a simple one and its just my lack of sleep that is stopping me from getting the answer. I have created an export fields function that works great from the model admin as per the http://doc.silverstripe.org/framework/en/reference/modeladmin

What i would like to do is to run the export function from the front end just by pushing a button on a management page.

Any pointers?

regards

Mick

Anyone?

Currently i have this function in my model admin and it works perfect but i don't want to give the users backend access to the system so just want to export all the records at a push of a button.

Hope some one can help.

Mick

public function getExportFields() {
        return array(
        'ID' => 'ID',
        'Area.Name' => 'Area',
        'DateMissing.Nice' => 'Date Missing',
        'MisperType.Name' => 'Misper Type',
        'Gender' => 'Gender',
        'Age'=> 'Age',
        'TOD' => 'Time of Day',
        'IPPGR' => 'IPP Grid',
        'DateFound.Nice' => 'Date Found',
        'FindGR' => 'Find Grid',
        'Dist' => 'Distance from IPP (km)',
        'Location.Name' => 'Location Type',
        'Survivability.Name' => 'Survivability',
        'DestGR' => 'Destination Grid',
        'TrackOff' => 'Track Offset (m)',
        'AreaType' => 'Area Type',
   		'DateCalledOut' => 'Callout Date',
   		'MissingLoc.Name' => 'Missing From',
        'Notes' => 'Notes'
        );
    }

Ok got around this using a gridfield and a little help from here [link]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17502299/how-to-export-all-rows-as-csv-in-modeladmin-silverstripe-3-1 [/link]

public function AllSearches() {
        $config = GridFieldConfig::create();
        $config->addComponents(new GridFieldExportAllButton());
        $form = Form::create(
            $this,
            "AllSearches",
            FieldList::create(
                LiteralField::create("LiteralField","<legend>Export All Search Data</legend>" ),
                LiteralField::create("LiteralField","<div class='large-12 medium-12 columns'>" ),
                    GridField::create('SearchGrid', 'Searches', new DataList('TheSearch'), $config),
                LiteralField::create("LiteralField","</div>" )
            ),
            FieldList::create(
              
            ),
           RequiredFields::create(array())
        )->addExtraClass('SearchExport');
        return $form;
    }