Disable export functionality to Excel

I'm would like to disable the export functionality to Excel (to many statistics are done on excel spreadsheets with outdated data, trying to force users to make use discoverer for their queries instead of exporting the data and manipulate the data in excel) How can this be done? Is it possible to assign export possibilities to certain roles so only a limited user group can export to excel (or other filetypes like csv) while it is disabled for other groups?
thanks for your input.
Marc Willemsen

Hello all,
Thanks for your thoughts. I had indeed found the option to alter the UIX templates and disable to possibility to export to all users. Problem is that we have a limited group of users who totally legitimized use the additional features of excel to work with data (hence the request to block export possibilities for selected rules), for others it is just the easy way out since they know excel much better than discoverer. The result of the easy way out is all kind of 'vague' analysis based on data which is no longer in sync with the database. Based on your thoughts it's clear to me there's some serious education and demonstration to be done in the user community. First hurdle will be to convince the senior DBA to keep the export possibilities to Excel enabled ;-)
Once again, thanks all for your efforts!
Marc Willemsen

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