Render the TemplateColumn content when exporting

[gbataille]

Or provide a best practice :)

So here is my use case.
In some columns, I don't display the model/DB value straight but rather some HTML, like to make a project name a link to a project.
With the export feature introduced in 1.8.0, the TemplateColumn template is rendered to HTML BUT the HTML is not interpreted.

If I compare that to django_tables_report, they do evaluate the HTML and get rid of the span, a or whatever I put in there.

WDYT?

Alternatively should we have different column definition (one way or another) for export vs HTML rendering?

Thanks

[jieter]

Alternatively should we have different column definition (one way or another) for export vs HTML rendering?

We already have something like this, it's called value... Every column has a render() and a value() method. In the default Column, value() just calls render(), as documented here

A possible solution to the TemplateColumn case might be to do something like django_tables_reports did and strip the tags.
I agree it can be clarified in the docs, PR's for that are really welcome.