BOE 4.0 and the Excel Export Compatibility Patch

I know that it still in beta but does any know if BOE 4.0 will continue to include support for the Excel Export Compatibility patch?
Thanks.

No, it's been 10 years of support for that format. Time to upgrade your reports and XLS sheets.

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Crystal Reports 2008 Excel Export Compatibility Patch - second attempt :)

Hello, I actually have a question related to the following thread, so I posted there and was recommended to start a new thread:
Crystal Reports 2008 Excel Export Compatibility Patch?
Question is related to the following doc, specifically, is this patch still available for CR 2008 or not?:
http://help.sap.com/businessobject/product_guides/cr2008V1/en/xi3_cr2008eecp_readme_en.pdf
A response from Don suggested this wasnt available for CR 2008 although this is confusing since the doc refers to CR 2008. My response was as follows and is essentially the question I still have (more so because we have another PeopleSoft/Oracle customer whos come across this doc and wants to know how to apply the fix for CR 2008). Thanks very much in advance!
Hi Don, I know this is an old thread, but Im also running into the same issue and am confused by your statement since the referenced PDF doc says this patch is available for CR 2008. Did you mean that the patch is no longer available or supported for CR 2008 for some reason? If so, any idea why?
Im a developer for Oracle/PeopleSoft and our PeopleSoft suite includes OEM Crystal. We recently upgraded to CR 2008 for our latest release and we are getting the same complaint from a few customers about not being able to output the XLS in Excel 8.0 compatiibility mode like before (In Crystal 9, we used the \Export\Excel\CompatVersion=80 registry key to enable this). So if this patch is available, it would be a huge benefit for us to be able to point our customers to it. If not, please still let me know eitherway.
Thanks very much!
Andrew

Hi Andrew,
So the story is the Rubik's patch has been available from CR 9 up until CR XI R1 as a simple download. In R2 and above to get it you have to log a case, work with a Report Rep to try to design your reports so they use the new export dll. To get you by until you have time to do so, and after filling out a query for the PM to get info on how to possibly improve the updated export dll to meet your needs, he will then send you the patch on the agreement that this is the LAST time you ask for it.
Support no longer has access to the patch so all requests must go through the Program Manager who keeps tract of who received it.
Bottom line is you need to update the reports to use the new export model.
That old legacy dll was bugging and impossible to maintain.
You can [purchase a support case here|http://store.businessobjects.com/store/bobjamer/DisplayProductByTypePage&parentCategoryID=&categoryID=54722300].
This is not a bug and has been this way for 10 years now, time to update your export model and Excel Macro's....
Thank you for your understanding
Don

Need Crystal Reports Excel Export Compatibility Patch

I seached the threads and found that the person that started this thread:
Crystal Reports.NET Export to Excel
has the same issue/needs that I do. We have over 1000 crystal reports all written in 8.5. We MUST have the ability to export them accurately to Excel in the clean manner in which they were exported back in version 8.5. Apparently (for whatever reason) you guys have gone away from the old methodology of exporting to Excel, however I read that there is a compatibility patch that can be provided that would allow me to be able to export the reports to excel the way it use to work. What do I need to do to aquire this patch? Thanks.
Steve

Thanks Don for you reply. I noticed you said this was low priority for him, but to us it's a major priority as I said, one of our biggest clients is very upset about it and we need it fixed asap.
I understand what you are saying when you say that we "had 10 years to update it." However, please understand from our vantage point. We didn't upgrade b/c you're user license agreements were so expensive for us until you recently reworked it so as to be affordable. So we couldn't upgrade until recently. So now we "upgraded" to a newer version of Crystal which usually means things are enhanced and work better. However, in this case the newer version is causing us major problems in an area that use to work great. So we're finding it hard to blame ourselves for this.
I guess I am ignorant as to why SAP would go to an entirely different exporting methodology when the old methodology was working so well.
Anyway, thanks again and anything you can do to speed up the process of getting us a patch would be greatly appreciated.
Steve

How to enhance the Excel export from Crystal Reports

Hello,
I am new in Crystal Reports and I wonder if it is possible to enhance the Excel export from Crystal Reports with post-processing that would be applied to the Excel exported file.
By example, is it possible to freeze the window panes, so rows and columns are frozen in place on the screen?
Is there any possibility to obtain the file exported to excel to work with.
Or maybe there is some ways to parametrize the Excel export from Crystal Reports?
Any suggestions are welcomed.

If you are using Crystal Reports 2008 you can use the Report Application SDK that is now available.
It has a object called PrintOutputController that has an export method that allows you to get access to the exported file before you send it to the user.
Check the Developer library and the samples for details.
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I am using CL_GUI_ALV_TREE to display an exploded BOM. My users want to be able to export the list to an excel spreadsheet in the same way that can be done using CL_GUI_ALV_GRID. Is this possible? I have spent the last hour searching the forum for the answer, and I cannot find anything that says this can be done.
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How do you freeze the tablix header row in an Excel export file in SSRS 2008?

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I'm using Crystal Report XI R2, when we are doing an export to Excel with have an unexpected formatting.
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      path                 = v_path
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Gregory
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Excel export defaults to ".txt"

Hi Forum,
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Whrn i try to export data clicking the excel button, the window "Save As" defaults to ".txt" extension.... is there a place to change the default to make it ".xls" instead???
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