I've been trying to use VDE to generate a CSV with data from an external database integrated to views using hook_views_data. Up until now I have had no luck when using the batch mode (which is required for me), it just shows the header row and empty results in the downloaded file.

Checking the code for views_data_export_plugin_display_export.inc, I found a comment reading TODO: Handle external databases; which makes me think there is no support for my use case.

Question is: ¿could any of the maintainers guide me to work on adding this support? I tried using db_set_active() but it just caused the batch operation to fail.

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Steven Jones’s picture

Steven Jones CreditAttribution: Steven Jones commented
Version: 6.x-2.0-beta6 » 6.x-2.x-dev
Category: support » feature

This is feature request.

greggadsdon’s picture

greggadsdon CreditAttribution: greggadsdon at ComputerMinds commented
Issue summary: View changes
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)

As Drupal 6 nears the end of its life and support period, the 6.x version of Views Data Export will not be supported either. To that end, this issue has been closed, and will not be resolved in the 6.x branch of Views Data Export.

If this issue is still relevant to 7.x branch of Views Data Export, then please re-open and move to a relevant 7.x version.