Data Director Tutorial: Grid Exports and Virtual Fields

In our fifth Data Director tutorial, Jan Walther shows the benefits of using grid exports in combination with our powerful import and export bundle. This is a seamless continuation of the previous tutorial on setting up exports with Data Director in general.

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Data Director Tutorial Grid Exports & Virtual Fields

This tutorial is about virtual fields in Pimcore exports and how they can be filled with data from Pimcore elements or even calculations via attribute mapping.
These are the advantages of Data Director compared to Pimcore's built-in grid export feature:

• You can use more export formats and customize the structure of the export document to your needs.
• You can set your own predefined filters (even without knowledge of SQL).
• It is easier to export complex field types.
• Export performance is much faster because previously cached export data is used instead of getting the data from the database only when the export is requested.

Curious about the details? Then check out the full tutorial on the Blackbit YouTube channel.

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