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atisne
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Excel reports

Post by atisne »

Hello,

Is someone know why the excel format has been removed from the list of the possible formats for many reports?

(I don't like this format but users do.)

Thanks
fman
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Re: Excel reports

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because they were not real excel files but HTML served to browser with application type that makes browser to think it was excel. Not a good solution that create issues with css and other things => Design choice => will provide real excel where it have any sense and NOT ANYWHERE.
atisne
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Re: Excel reports

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Thanks Francisco for the clarification.

I'm not sure to understand "provide real excel where it have any sense". I'm afraid users want to be able to get excel report for all of them (at least those with ODS available).
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Re: Excel reports

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>> I'm not sure to understand "provide real excel where it have any sense
any report that seems a matrix is ok to be an excel,
what does not seems a matrix => NO => test specifications, test report

>> I'm afraid users want to be able to get excel report for all of them (at least those with ODS available).
Do not care of bad user habits
atisne
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Re: Excel reports

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any report that seems a matrix is ok to be an excel,
what does not seems a matrix => NO
I'm agree with you with this rule.

So, wherever ODS is available and XLS is not, that means XLS is missing. Right?
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