Export Group Data

[krokosik]

Add the export button to a group, similiar to a friend balance.

Discussed in #125

^{Originally posted by xyz-333 October 14, 2024}
Hi, I've been using various expense sharing apps but they all either lack some functionality or become unusable (such as splitwise).
The one thing I am missing in SplitPro is an option to export group expenses, which could be as simple as .csv file.
I assumed it could be extracted from the .json generated through "Download splitpro data", but it does not seem to store individual expenses, which is essential for me.
Given how many projects such as SplitPro exist and that they are in fact very similar without any revolutionary functionalities, it would be great if there's some standard, a shared format for storing the data that would allow to change the apps without losing everything.

[arpanroy18]

I would love to take this task

[krokosik]

Awesome, go ahead

[FelixDz]

@arpanroy18 any news about this? Our group of friends is interested in this feature in order to make some regular backup of the data, in case our server crashes.
Let us know if you need some help, even if I'm not sure about my skills for this maybe I can give some support.

[krokosik]

It's not a priority for me currently. I was hoping for someone to get involved with it, but release 1.6 is already quite large and I am considering moving this to 1.7. If you need backups, why not just create a database dump as per Docker readme?

[FelixDz]

Indeed, database dumps will do the job for now. I'm not in charge of the server admin of our group but I'll transfer this info I missed.

This still would be a nice feature for interoperability, in case a group wants to migrate to another tool, but I agree it's not a priority.