History CSV Export is unclear / misses some data

[Jakob Löw]

There is no information which entry is negative/positive. I.e. in the picture above the pay should have a different sign than the /drinks .

Replacing user ids by actual user names, or at least the exports user id by me would also help understanding the log.

[Crsi]

We first designed the CSV export to be a kind of backup that could be restored. However, I see the point. It's almost impossible for the user to tell who those user IDs refer. Which format do you prefer? I would assume the following to be a good tradeoff:

id	sender	receiver	amount	cumulative	reason
1	Hopfenspace	me	11176	+11176	data migration
21	me	Hopfenspace	100	-100	consume: drink

This includes two things:

1. The user IDs will be replaced by the user's name (not the username, though). I will see if I use me or the user's name in this special case.
2. I will add a new row for the cumulative amount, so that you can use sum(<row>) to get your current balance (e.g. it includes the sign for positive/negative). It will always be abs(cumulative)=amount.

Any further suggestions?

[Jakob Löw]

cant we leave out the amount then?
Maybe we should discuss wether the sender/receiver fields should contain names of other users except Hopfenspace and me.

[Crsi]

What do you want in the sender/receiver fields then? The user's names except for the community user and yourself? What's the advantage here?

[Crsi]

After using some testing data and implementing the two points, the new CSV output would look like this one here (sample data from my perspective):

As you can see, I didn't replace Crsi with me which looks better in my opinion.

Note that I also changed the data format in the registered field. Previously, the column contained UNIX timestamps. But as they are hard to read for humans as well, I replaced them with their ISO-formatted representation.

Do you have any other recommendations before I close the issue?