Convenient self-service way to generate group listing <select>

[adehnert]

DB maintainers can use the command "groups/format_groups.py midway" to generate a list of groups suitable for inclusion into an HTML <select> tag. For non-DB maintainers, a cronjob runs it regularly and sticks the output in /mit/asa-db/data/db-dump/midway_groups.html. If somebody who isn't a DB maintainer wants a slightly different set of groups, though, they're out of luck. This is unfortunate.

One approach: The reporting interface could grow a "field" that generates an appropriate <option> tag for each group it lists. By outputting as CSV with the status and class fields, it would be relatively easy to filter the right rows in Excel, without needing to use CONCATENATE or strip quotes or whatnot, and hopefully with a reduced risk of smartquotes (see ​https://diswww.mit.edu/menelaus/asa-internal/15919 for Lemur's struggles with this).

[adehnert]

Fixed in commit 3cb9b1ee08407edea776c76f2f45a46ef5c045cc:

Author: Alex Dehnert <adehnert@mit.edu>
Date:   Fri Feb 8 05:09:01 2013 -0500

    Add group listing <option> tags to reporting page
    
    Non-DB-maintainers can use this to generate customized HTML forms without
    futzing around with HTML escaping, spreadsheet CONCATENATE functions, etc..
    This fixes ASA-#173.