Excel Export Formatting Issue

HI,
I am working with CR XI R2 and asp.net2.0.
I am facing some formatting issue when the report is exported to excel.
I have to maintain the same formatting as in the crystal report ,when the data is exported to excel.
My report is a tabular report.I tried exporting the report from Crystal report designer.Not via web application.
I have used the data only option.When i used the other option (Excel 97-2000(xls)) the text was getting rotated at 90 degree but other formatting was not exported correctly.So i found data only option was more appropriate in my case.
I hope same things can be achieved by asp.net also one we get it in the designer.
while exporting from the designer,the main issues i am facing are
    1) In the report some headings i have put at 90 degree rotation.
        When it gets exported to excel the headings are getting exported with 0 degree rotation.
2) I have applied some back groud color for groupfooter and page header.
     This setting is also not getting exported .the report is getting exported with out any back ground color formatting
Is there any way to attach the exported pdf and excel file ,so that the issue would be more clear for you all.
Please let me know if you require more information.
Regards,
smitha
Edited by: smitha thomas on Jul 3, 2009 6:12 AM
Edited by: smitha thomas on Jul 3, 2009 7:43 AM

Hi Smitha,
Use the other option of Microsoft Office Excel Workbook(*.xls) instead of (Excel 97-2000(xls))
*Close the thread if issue solved.
Regards
Jambulingam.P

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- SAP BusinessObjects Enterprise XI 3.1 SP3
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Umm, the code you provided has nothing to do with Business Objects Enterprise...(?). So, I'm a bit confused by the mention of BOE and "The report is executed using CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine" in essentially one paragraph.
Can you pls explain?
- Ludek

Invalid export DLL or export format" with Crystal Reports 2008 to Excel xls

We are experiencing the same issue as reported in the sticky thread. I answered in that thread, but thought that I woudl open a new thread to keep track of this issue. I can give you the responses to your questions you have requested in that thread:
Server Operating System - MS Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition SP2
Version of the .NET Framework - MS .NET Framework 3.5 SP1
How did you deploy? - Installed CR 2008 SP1 runtime with msi package
If you deployed with CRRuntime_12_0_mlb.msi - what was the date of the file and its size? CRRuntime_12_1_mlb.msi dated Sept. 16, 2008 12:55:00 PM, size: 56,717,824 bytes
What is the file version of crpe32.dll on your server? You'll find this in the C:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Enterprise 12.0\win32_x86 directory - File was created 9/13/08 11:21AM, 9451KB File Version: 12.1.0.882
How many libpng10.dll files are on your system? List all instances. - 1 instance is on the system located in C;\Program Files\Business Objects\Business Objects Enterprise 12.0\win32_x86 directory. It is dated 9/13/08 8:52:26AM 132KB version 1.0.30.1
Any additional comments - We have tried to export to PDF and this works successfully. However, we can not export to xls or rft formats.
CRXF_XLS.dll is 905KB 9/13/08 9:38AM Version 12.1.0.882
CRXF_RTF.dll is 509KB 9/13/08 9:35AM Version 12.1.0.882
We also have the CR XIR2 server runtime installed side by side on the server as we migrate from CR 2008 to CR XIR2 SP4 ( where this function does work currently).
Please let me know if you need anything additional.
Phil
"Invalid export DLL or export format" with Crystal Reports 2008
Posted: Sep 27, 2008 12:36 AM       E-mail this message      Reply
I've included this sticky because we are seeing many posts in this forum regarding the error Invalid export DLL or export format when exporting to Excel and RTF in .NET applications using the Crystal Reports 2008 .NET SDK.
Issue
Exporting a Crystal Report to Excel or RTF format
.NET application using the Crystal Reports 2008 runtime (version 12.0)
error Invalid export DLL or export format
We've been doing some testing in-house and haven't reproduced this behavior. In order to figure this issue out we will need your help. If you are getting this error please reply to this post with the following information:
Server Operating System
Version of the .NET Framework
How did you deploy?
If you deployed with CRRuntime_12_0_mlb.msi - what was the date of the file and its size?
What is the file version of crpe32.dll on your server? You'll find this in the C:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Enterprise 12.0\win32_x86 directory
How many libpng10.dll files are on your system? List all instances.
Any additional comments
What We Know
The error invalid export DLL or export format may occur when exporting to Excel and RTF formats in .NET applications utilizing the Crystal Reports 2008 runtime (v 12.0)
Other export formats like Adobe PDF, Crystal Reports, CSV all export with no error
Some customers have resolved this by adding C:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Enterprise 12.0\win32_x86 to their environment path variables
This may have something to do with the file libpng10.dll. Both crxf_xls.dll and crxf_rtf.dll are dependent on it.
Thanks in advance for your co-operation. We hope to figure out what is causing this issue soon.

Hi,
I am also having the same problem, except that I am not using Crystal Report 2008 runtime but the actual Crystal Report 2008 installation on Windows XP SP2 with VS Studio 2005 (VC++). MS .NET Framework 2.0.
Cyrstal Report XIR2 was installed on the same machine but uninstalled before installing Crystal Report 2008.
So only one instance of libpng10.dll and found in C:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Enterprise 12.0\win32_x86
Crpe32.dll        3/1/2008 version 12.0.0.683
Crxf_xls.dll       3/1/2008 version 12.0.0.683
Crxf_rtf.dll         3/1/2008 version 12.0.0.683
crdb_oracle.dll 3/1/2008 version 12.0.0.683
libpng10.dll       3/1/2008 version 1.0.30.0             122880 bytes
There is no problem for exporting to pdf, html, word, csv, Crystal Report. If I create a testing report without any data from database, the testing report can then be exported also to rtf and xls.
Oracle 11.1.0.6 is the DB for the reports.
Adding C:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Enterprise 12.0\win32_x86 to the path did not resolve my problem.
Any idea to fix this issue?
Thanks
Kin H Chan

Excel export (webui crm -- excel) wrong format of house number

Hi,
in an excel export (webui crm ---> Excel) is displaying the wrong format.
If the house number contains a special character such as "/" then the house number displayed in the date format in Excel.
And if in the field house number is a number and a letter such as "9 a", then the house number is displayed in time format (9:00 am) instead the house number.
Does anybody know, how can I solve this problem?
Thank you in adance.
Best regards, Jasmin

Hi,
There is no error from the CRM functionality. If you SAVE the excel,instead of opening it directly and then " open with "
word pad or notepad, you can see the phone no.s and fax no.s are properly transported to excel.There is a default format setting of
excel from the Microsoft, so you are getting the default format after opening the excel.
Steps:
1.Export to excel.
2.Choose the BP,PHONE and FAX columns holding the 'CTRL'key.
3.Right click on the chosen columns and choose "format cells".
4.Under the tab "number" choose 'number' and and reduce the decimal
place to '0' and click "OK".
5.Now you will be able to see the expected format.
If you are using IE then the excel file that is being generated should be an XML file which would help with the formating issue. But when there is a problem in the generation of the XML file a CSV file is created instead.
The kind of problems that can cause this could be :
- Wrong version of Excel (professional needed)
- Error in encoding (note 1560243 corrects this)
- Active X Settings on browser are not properly setup or disabled
- Other problems (some fixed in note 1457261)
I hope this helps.
Br,
Lloyd

Export to Excel is formatted differently since we upgraded to XI release 2

Hi,
For many of our reports were using the Crystal Reports that came embedded VisualStudio2002. Recently, some of our developers needed to upgrade their laptops to Crystal Reports XI release 2. This forced us to install the Crystal 11.5 redistributable on our web servers, so those developers would be able to run their new reports.
However, now we are noticing problems with the export-to-excel feature on some of our OLD reports. Even though we have not change/touched the OLD reports at all, the export to excel feature is acting differently. I strongly suspect it has something to do with the 11.5 redistributable I installed on the servers.
Specifically, these are the things we noticed missing on our old reports...
1. Previously, the export-to-excel would mimic the page breaks we setup in the rpt file. Now it does not. The page breaks seem random in the Excel export. If I export the report to PDF the page breaks seem fine (i.e. exactly how I set them up in the rpt file).
2. Previously, the page header section would repeat within every page of the Excel document (that is how we wanted it). Now it does not. The page header only shows up once, but then does not repeat anymore.
Previously, we did not have to set any of the format options in the report, and it worked fine. To try and resolve the problems I have now tried these settings (C#):
ExcelFormatOptions efo = new ExcelFormatOptions();
efo.ExportPageBreaksForEachPage =true;
efo.ExportPageHeadersAndFooters = ExportPageAreaKind.OnEachPage;
Those format changes did not help at all. Does anyone know how to get my page breaks back?
thanks, --Rick

Hi Rick,
The version of CR included in .NET 2002 was version 9. There have been a lot of changes done to our exporting dll's since then that cleaned up how CR exported. You won't be able to fix this using code, it is due to your objects in the page layout that is causing the changes.
There is a Document that the Report Design team has that is "Best Practices" when laying out reports for exporting so I am transferring this posting to the Report Design Forums to help you with "fixing up" your reports. If you still have issues when previewing/printing/exporting through your application they can transfer this post back.
Thank you
Don

Export to excel with formatting was autowrapping text in a cell

Export to excel with formatting was autowrapping text in a cell without having to check the can grow option. When the can grow option is checked it does wrap the text however it spans multiple rows, which causes complications when trying to sort.
It worked in:
ProductVersion=10.0.0.533
ProductName=Crystal Enterprise 10 Embedded
Doesnt work in:
Crystal Reports 10.0 Service Pack 6
After the upgrade the reports did not autowrap, b/c the "can grow" option was not checked. I believe this was fixed by "ADAPT00305137 Patch ID: 36479914
Description:
When users export to Excel 97-2000 with the page-based format, text fields are wrapped, even when the "can grow" feature in the
Designer is turned off." . After we turn the option to grow on it does wrap however it spans across multiple rows. So I guess my question is there a way for it not to span multiple rows when wrapping text?
Edited by: dforde on Jan 27, 2010 11:12 PM

I could be wrong, but I believe the export to excel option exports the database values, and the export to HTML exports the values seen in the sheets. If the database values are stored as seconds, the Excel will see them as seconds, and the data will have to be formatted properly in Excel.
I haven't toyed around with Excel exports that much, but it might be possible to set up a template or macro in excel that would have the proper formatting, and use it when opening the Disco export.

Export to excel loses formatting

I have a region whose source is a SQL query.
My SQL query contains function calls that return a value.
source of the region:
select nvl(GETSRHR(:P253_STARTDATE,:P253_ENDDATE),0) as "REQUESTS",
nvl(GETTBHR(:P253_STARTDATE,:P253_ENDDATE),0) as "BENEFITS",
nvl(GETTOTALHRS(:P253_STARTDATE,:P253_ENDDATE),0) as "TOTALS"
from dual
Report template chosen is: default vertical report look 1 (include null columns)
when I run the page the report looks as follows:
REQUESTS 20
BENEFITS 120
TOTALS 140
When I export this it looks like:
REQUESTS BENEFITS TOTALS
20 120 140
Why is the formatting lost when I export to Excel? am I missing a step somewhere?
thanks for the feedback

The CSV/Excel export always exports your data horizontally. Similar to what you would get if you were running this in SQL Plus. The vertical look report template only applies to the report when shown in your web page. The template selection has now affect on the structure of the CSV export. If you need to export your data in a different way, one way to implement this would be to write a PL/SQL region or process that stores the data in that format first, e.g. in another table or using HTML DB collections and then write a report that is based on that temporary storage.
Regards,
Marc

SSIS 2008 R2 Excel Destination Error, "An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E21.", cannot export to the new Excel (.xlsx) format

Hello.
I've been attempting to do a very simple task that just isn't working. For a Data Flow Task action in SSIS, I am trying to export data from a single SQL Server (2008 R2) database table to an Excel spreadsheet (.xlsx). No matter what I do, it
just keeps failing. The columns in the table match the column header names (in the first row) in the tab I select. Here is the output I get.
SSIS package "Package.dtsx" starting.
Information: 0x4004300A at Data Flow Task, SSIS.Pipeline: Validation phase is beginning.
Warning: 0x80049304 at Data Flow Task, SSIS.Pipeline: Warning: Could not open global shared memory to communicate with performance DLL; data flow performance counters are not available. To resolve, run this package as an administrator, or on the system's
console.
Information: 0x40043006 at Data Flow Task, SSIS.Pipeline: Prepare for Execute phase is beginning.
Information: 0x40043007 at Data Flow Task, SSIS.Pipeline: Pre-Execute phase is beginning.
Error: 0xC0202009 at Data Flow Task, Excel Destination [52]: SSIS Error Code DTS_E_OLEDBERROR. An OLE DB error has occurred. Error code: 0x80040E21.
Error: 0xC0202025 at Data Flow Task, Excel Destination [52]: Cannot create an OLE DB accessor. Verify that the column metadata is valid.
Error: 0xC004701A at Data Flow Task, SSIS.Pipeline: component "Excel Destination" (52) failed the pre-execute phase and returned error code 0xC0202025.
Information: 0x40043008 at Data Flow Task, SSIS.Pipeline: Post Execute phase is beginning.
Information: 0x4004300B at Data Flow Task, SSIS.Pipeline: "component "Excel Destination" (52)" wrote 0 rows.
Information: 0x40043009 at Data Flow Task, SSIS.Pipeline: Cleanup phase is beginning.
Task failed: Data Flow Task
SSIS package "Package.dtsx" finished: Success.
I kick-off the action and sometimes is hangs for a few seconds (20+ seconds) and sometimes it doesn't, but either way it fails. I tried this on a 32-bit machine, 64-bit machine, and still it fails. I tried an OLE DB connection to Excel and
that doesn't work either. I made sure that the connection string for the Excel spreadsheet is Provider=Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=[filepath\excelfile].xlsx;Extended Properties="EXCEL 12.0 XML;HDR=YES"; and still it doesn't work.
Now, when I switch it over to export to an Excel 2003 spreadsheet (.xls) it works! But I don't want it to go to the old Excel spreadsheet format, my requirement is to export the data to the new format. Is there a bug in the Access 2010 Database
Engine that won't allow me to export to the new Excel format? Otherwise, what can I be doing wrong? I set the Run64BitRuntime property to False and it still doesn't work.
My solution (so far) is to export it to Excel 2003 and then via the Script Task action use the Excel COM API (Microsoft.Office.Interop.Excel.dll) for 2010, open the file and save it in the new format (.xlsx) and that works great! However, the client
doesn't want to install Excel on the database server! So what can I do when the Excel Destination or OLE DB Destination (to connect to Excel) actions don't work!? Please help!!!
Like I mentioned, if this is a bug, that would be great to know so I can stop wasting my time. Thanks again.

Alright, so you mean to say is that the driver is not installed. Isn't version 12 the 2010 Access Database Engine Driver? I did install that, and I also tried the 2007 Access DB Engine driver, and both don't work. What driver am I missing?
The connection string is correctly formatted, yes?
Also, when setting up the OLE DB Destination action and I have it point to the Excel spreadsheet, and I specify as the provider "Microsoft Office 12.0 Access Database Engine OLE DB Provider" and click on Test Connection, the connection is
successful. Wouldn't that mean the 12.0 version driver is installed?
Thanks in advance.

Error inExportToDisk method for Excel (nvalid export DLL or export format)

Hi,
I'm new to Crystal Reports and facing a problem with its ExportToDisk method. I'm using Crystal Reports 2008 with MS .Net v3.5 SP1. I get the below error while trying to export to a Excel file. The Datasource is a dataset. Could you please help me out?
-Stack Trace
at CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.ConvertDotNetToErom.ThrowDotNetException(Exception e)
   at CrystalDecisions.ReportSource.EromReportSourceBase.ExportToStream(ExportRequestContext reqContext)
   at CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.FormatEngine.ExportToStream(ExportRequestContext reqContext)
   at CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.FormatEngine.Export(ExportRequestContext reqContext)
   at CrystalDecisions.CrystalReports.Engine.ReportDocument.ExportToDisk(ExportFormatType formatType, String fileName)
-Error message
Error in File stdiface {3C162A12-5142-4F2C-8709-154FDD0843DB}.rpt:
Invalid export DLL or export format.
-Exception source
CrystalDecisions.ReportAppServer.DataSetConversion
-Error ID
InvalidExportOptions
Any help will be appreciated!
Thank You!

Further, our application has recently upgraded to Crystal Reports 2008, and this problem wasn't observed on any of the previous versions.
Let me summarize the findings as follows:-
1)When I install my application on a clean XP machine, (which installs Crystal Reports 2008) as a prerequisite, the window service which uses the ExportToDisk method of Crystal Report engine works without a hitch. The report is successfully generated.
2)However, if I install my application on a machine which had previous version of my application installed (which used Crystal Reports 10) it gives me a problem with the ExportToDisk method (Invalid export DLL or export format) when it's called through a windows service.
Let me know if you need any additional information.
Do help!
Thanks!

OBI 11g excel export issue

Hi,
I have a report where on taking an excel export, the last column header appears without border and cell color.
Could someone suggest which system files to look into to resolve this??
Regards.

i'm using 11.1.1.5 and i have been reading about a lot of bug in this version, specially with excel exports and formats. So i suppose we need to apply a consolidated patch to get over this. Any idea whats the patch id ? is it going to be a good idea to convince the client for an upgrade to 11.1.1.6 ?? what are the pros and cons in this action stated?
Regards.

Export to Excel 2007 failed - Invalid export DLL or export format.

Hi,
Environment:
OS: Windows XP (SP3)
Crystal Reports : 12.1.0.892
We have a problem for exporting few reports to Excel 2007 (Export to Excel 2003 works fine for those reports).
Getting the bellow while trying to Export to Excel 2007.
Crystal Report Windows Forms Viewer
Error in File CDSFUN01 {99B42BC5-2FBB-4F75-A4F5-D7B5B7B6AE0B}.rpt:
Invalid export DLL or export format.
OK
Export Report
Export failed.
OK
Its the same case even if we try to Export blank report to Excel 2007 as well. Please help.

I will make sure that I am on the latest patch ie SP4
https://smpdl.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/012002523100008782452011E/cr2008sp4.exe
You can find the rumtimes here:
MSI:
https://smpdl.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/012002523100008782532011E/cr2008sp4_redist.zip
MSM:
https://smpdl.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/012002523100008782522011E/cr2008sp4_mm.zip
ClickOnce
https://smpdl.sap-ag.de/~sapidp/012002523100008782442011E/cr2008sp4_clickonce.zip
Recompile the app and then deploy.
What is the .NET Framework used by the application?
Method of deployment?
OS where app is deployed, x86 or x64?
Are you able to export the report from designer ie CR2008 Standalone?
- Saurabh

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