Last modified on $Date$ If you want to reuse PyKota datas in another software, but don't want to modify your existing application to have it connect to PyKota's database, your best option is the new dumpykota command. dumpykota can export PyKota datas in a number of formats. As of September 27th 2004, output formats are comma separated values, semicolon separated values, and tab separated values. More formats, different, are planned : XML, SQL, and LDIF are planned, but are currently not implemented. dumpykota can't dump all datas at once though, you have to specify which type of datas you want. The possible types are : Users Users groups Printers Printers groups membership Users groups membership Users print quota entries Users groups print quota entries History of payments History of print jobs You can then import the dumped datas into a spreadsheet for example, if you want to create complex reports with nice looking graphs and the like. This command could also be used if you plan to write your own management tools : just write wrappers around the pkprinters, edpykota, and dumpykota tools, and your own tools will automatically benefit from PyKota database backend independance layer. Contrary to the repykota command, dumpykota doesn't currently limit which datas can be exported by normal users, so please take care to not allow normal users to read the /etc/pykota/pykota.conf file or to execute the dumpykota command if you don't want to expose possibly sensitive datas. dumpykota -v--version -h--help -f outputformat --format outputformat -d datatype --data datatype