Dashboards - Download to CSV or Excel?

Is it possible to download to csv or Excel from a dashboard?
Thanks!

I found the answer. The "Properties" button for the report(s) on the dashboard has a "Report Links..." option. This is where to change the setting.

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If you want the CSV download to always be encoded in utf-8, then you should set the application-level attribute "Automatic CSV Encoding" to No.
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Hi,
Hoping someone could lend a hand on the issues described below.
I have a prompted dahsboard that, dependent upon prompts selected, can return detail datasets. THe intent of this dashboard is to AVOID giving end users Answers Access, but still providing the ability to pull large amounts of detail data in an ad-hoc fashion. When large datasets are returned, end users will download the data to thier local machines and use excel for further analysis. I have tried two options:
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For my test, I am uses the dashboard prompts to return 1 years (2009) worth of order data for North America, down to the day level of granularity. Yes alot of detail data...but this is what many "dataheads" at my organization are requesting...(despite best efforts to evangelize the power of OBIEE to do the aggregation for them...). I expext this report to return somewhere around 200k rows...
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<div><script language="javascript" src="res/b_mozilla/browserdom.js"></script><script language="javascript" src="res/b_mozilla/common.js"></script><div class="ErrorMessage">Odbc driver returned an error (SQLFetchScroll).</div><div style="margin-top:2pt" onclick="SAWMoreInfo(event); return false;"><img class="ErrorExpanderImg" border="0" src="res/sk_oracle10/common/errorplus.gif" align="absmiddle">  Error Details<div style="margin-left:15px;display:none" compresssrc="res/sk_oracle10/common/errorminus.gif">
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Edited by: AdamM on Feb 9, 2010 9:01 PM
Edited by: AdamM on Feb 9, 2010 9:02 PM

@chandrasekhar:
Thanks for your response. I'll try with the export button but also willing to know how to create button on toolbar.And by clicking on that button a popup box will come having two radio buttons asking to download the report either in .xls or in .csv format. I am looking for the subroutines for that.
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Downloading a .csv file as excel sheet

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does anyone know how to ensure that when downloading a csv file, it will be opened with excel only. The browser is downloading it as a text file and not excel. how can this be prevented.
please let me know if you have any ideas since i've been pondering over it for far too long and need help...
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Yes, you need to set the content type to "application/vnd.ms-excel". Of course there is no guarantee that your clients will interpret that to mean "Open with Excel", or that they will even have Excel installed on their system, but there's not much you can do about that.

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We have a requirement where we have to generate a CSV file using PL/SQL block and the user shoul download that csv file to his client machine whenever it requirs to him. We have generated csv file and save the same in a particular location in the server. As the CSV file size may be around 10 to 15 MB we feel the storing and retrieving of the csv file in a BLOB object is a performance hit. Now we want to dowload the file from the csv file path without storing the csv file into database BLOB object.
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1. File Name with Extension
2. File path at which it has been placed
3. Page Context (you must know i assume)
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try
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Edited by: aprak on Oct 18, 2011 1:09 AM

Download to multiple sheet excel in the background

Hi,
I am trying to download data into multiple excel sheets in the background. I was able to create comma delimited csv file in the server, which can be opened as excel file. This is good when it does not have more that one worksheets.
I have three internal table and to send these internal tables in different worksheets in the same excel file.
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Hi Lokman,
<b>1</b>.
Yes it is Possible.
<b>2</b>.
Am sending one example program .That is clear to understand .
REPORT zvenkat_head MESSAGE-ID zvenkat .
INCLUDE ole2incl. " Include for OLE object
DATA: application TYPE ole2_object,
      workbook    TYPE ole2_object,
      sheet       TYPE ole2_object,
      cells       TYPE ole2_object,
      h_f         TYPE ole2_object.            " font
*Structure for users deleted
DATA:   BEGIN OF itab_yb001_udel OCCURS 0,
          bname     LIKE yb001-bname,
          name_text LIKE addr3_val-name_text,
        END OF itab_yb001_udel.
DATA:   BEGIN OF itab_yb001_tadd OCCURS 0.
        INCLUDE STRUCTURE yb001.
DATA:   name_text LIKE addr3_val-name_text,
        ttext LIKE tstct-ttext.
DATA:   END OF itab_yb001_tadd.
*Structure for Transactions deleted
DATA:   BEGIN OF itab_yb001_tdel OCCURS 0.
        INCLUDE STRUCTURE yb001.
DATA:   name_text LIKE addr3_val-name_text,
        ttext LIKE tstct-ttext.
DATA:   END OF itab_yb001_tdel.
DATA:   BEGIN OF itab_yb001_uadd OCCURS 0,
        bname LIKE yb001-bname,
        name_text LIKE addr3_val-name_text,
        END OF itab_yb001_uadd.
PARAMETERS: p_fname LIKE rlgrap-filename. " File name to download
PERFORM download_file.
FORM - DOWNLOAD_FILE
FORM download_file.
DATA index TYPE i.
CREATE OBJECT application 'excel.application'.
SET PROPERTY OF application 'visible' = 0.
CALL METHOD OF application 'Workbooks' = workbook.
CALL METHOD OF workbook 'Add'.
CALL METHOD OF application 'Worksheets' = sheet.
CALL METHOD OF sheet 'Add'.
Create 1 Excel sheet
CALL METHOD OF application 'Worksheets' = sheet
    EXPORTING #1 = 1.
SET PROPERTY OF sheet 'Name' = 'Transactions Added'.
CALL METHOD OF sheet 'Activate'.
PERFORM f_xl_theader.
tell user what is going on
CALL FUNCTION 'SAPGUI_PROGRESS_INDICATOR'
    EXPORTING
      text   = text-m03
    EXCEPTIONS
      OTHERS = 1.
LOOP AT itab_yb001_tadd.
    index = sy-tabix + 1. " 1 - column name
    PERFORM fill_cell USING index 1 0 itab_yb001_tadd-bname.
    PERFORM fill_cell USING index 2 0 itab_yb001_tadd-tcode.
    PERFORM fill_cell USING index 3 0 itab_yb001_tadd-name_text.
    PERFORM fill_cell USING index 4 0 itab_yb001_tadd-ttext.
    PERFORM fill_cell USING index 5 0 itab_yb001_tadd-agr_name.
ENDLOOP.
tell user what is going on
CALL FUNCTION 'SAPGUI_PROGRESS_INDICATOR'
    EXPORTING
      text   = text-m03
    EXCEPTIONS
      OTHERS = 1.
Create 2 Excel sheet
CALL METHOD OF application 'Worksheets' = sheet
    EXPORTING #1 = 2.
SET PROPERTY OF sheet 'Name' = 'Transactions Deleted'.
CALL METHOD OF sheet 'Activate'.
PERFORM f_xl_theader.
LOOP AT itab_yb001_tdel.
    index = sy-tabix + 1. " 1 - column name
    PERFORM fill_cell USING index 1 0 itab_yb001_tdel-bname.
    PERFORM fill_cell USING index 2 0 itab_yb001_tdel-tcode.
    PERFORM fill_cell USING index 3 0 itab_yb001_tdel-name_text.
    PERFORM fill_cell USING index 4 0 itab_yb001_tdel-ttext.
    PERFORM fill_cell USING index 5 0 itab_yb001_tdel-agr_name.
ENDLOOP.
tell user what is going on
CALL FUNCTION 'SAPGUI_PROGRESS_INDICATOR'
    EXPORTING
      text   = text-m04
    EXCEPTIONS
      OTHERS = 1.
Create 3 Excel Sheet
CALL METHOD OF application 'Worksheets' = sheet
    EXPORTING #1 = 3.
CALL METHOD OF sheet 'Activate'.
SET PROPERTY OF sheet 'Name' = 'Users Added'.
PERFORM f_xl_uheader.
LOOP AT itab_yb001_uadd.
    index = sy-tabix + 1. " 1 - column name
    PERFORM fill_cell USING index 1 0 itab_yb001_uadd-bname.
    PERFORM fill_cell USING index 2 0 itab_yb001_uadd-name_text.
ENDLOOP.
Create 4 Excel sheet
CALL METHOD OF application 'Worksheets' = sheet
    EXPORTING #1 = 4.
SET PROPERTY OF sheet 'Name' = 'Users Deleted'.
CALL METHOD OF sheet 'Activate'.
PERFORM f_xl_uheader.
LOOP AT itab_yb001_udel.
    index = sy-tabix + 1. " 1 - column name
    PERFORM fill_cell USING index 1 0 itab_yb001_udel-bname.
    PERFORM fill_cell USING index 2 0 itab_yb001_udel-name_text.
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CALL METHOD OF sheet 'SaveAs'
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                            #2 = 1.          "fileFormat
PERFORM err_hdl.
Closes excel window, data is lost if not saved
SET PROPERTY OF application 'visible' = 0.
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CALL METHOD OF workbook 'CLOSE'.
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FREE OBJECT application.
ENDFORM.                    "DOWNLOAD_FILE
*&      Form F_XL_THEADER
      Header for XL sheet
--> p1        text
<-- p2        text
FORM f_xl_theader .
output column headings to active Excel sheet
PERFORM fill_cell USING 1 1 1 text-t01.
PERFORM fill_cell USING 1 2 1 text-t02.
PERFORM fill_cell USING 1 3 1 text-t03.
PERFORM fill_cell USING 1 4 1 text-t04.
PERFORM fill_cell USING 1 5 1 text-t05.
ENDFORM.                    " F_XL_THEADER
      FORM FILL_CELL                                                *
      sets cell at coordinates i,j to value val boldtype bold       *
FORM fill_cell USING i j bold val.
CALL METHOD OF sheet 'Cells' = cells EXPORTING #1 = i #2 = j.
PERFORM err_hdl.
SET PROPERTY OF cells 'Value' = val .
PERFORM err_hdl.
GET PROPERTY OF cells 'Font' = h_f.
PERFORM err_hdl.
SET PROPERTY OF h_f 'Bold' = bold .
PERFORM err_hdl.
ENDFORM.                    "FILL_CELL
      outputs OLE error if any                                       *
--> p1        text
<-- p2        text
FORM err_hdl.
IF sy-subrc <> 0.
    WRITE: / 'Fehler bei OLE-Automation:'(010), sy-subrc.
    STOP.
ENDIF.
ENDFORM.                    " ERR_HDL
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--> p1        text
<-- p2        text
FORM f_xl_uheader .
PERFORM fill_cell USING 1 1 1 text-t01.
PERFORM fill_cell USING 1 2 1 text-t03.
ENDFORM.                    " F_XL_UHEADER
Please try to understand first and replicate to ur requirement.
Please let me know if u have any problem.
<b>Thanks,
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