Default export to excel

We are using Discoverer 10.1.2, we want to customize the export funtionality of Discoverer Viewer in such a way that it would export to Excel by default when the user clicks on export instead of givng him various options. Any suggestions? I assume this has to be with App Server config files.
Thanks

This is practically an identical answer I gave on anther thread on this forum right now. Same idea in that you're customizing viewer in a 'non-standard' way.
Russ
You would be performing a customization in that it would be a global change in that everyone will have the same limitation using Viewer.
However, a post on doing nearly this exact thing can be seen at:
http://oraclebi.blogspot.com
which is the blog for a couple of Oracle BI Project Managers.
If you search in the search box for 'UIX' and choose 'search this blog', you'll see some hacks and 'How To Customize The Export Formats List in Viewer' is the one that may interest you.
Now ... if I don't say it ... someone else will (although maybe not so humously), so ...
1. Oracle doesn't support this
2. Oracle will say it voids all sorts of stuff
3. You wife will leave you, the kids will join a punk rock band, the dog will relieve itself in the house, and the car won't start (well at least it will seem that way with all the warnings you'll get for this kind of thing)
4. If you're an adult now, then treat it like an adult would (ie: back up all the UIX files to a directory first, don't touch that backup upon penalty of death, and only restore back from that area if you screw up your UIX hack). If you just treat it like altering an Oracle Apps Form (ie: you don't play with Oracle's original one, you make a copy, work on the copy and link the copy in as the new one right), then you'll be okay
On a sidenote, I could resist mentioning something funny (well I thought it was funny) as I always state all these warnings, and still people miss them. Hopefully the message has now gone so far down in the list that you won't want to see it (and the author isn't on this forum), but recently on the BI forum here, someone was asking where they could get a copy of the UIX files. Makes me think ...
I guess his wife left him, the kids joined a punk rock band ... you get the idea.
Russ

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