Download to excel in background

Hi
I want to download data to Excel as a background job.
Are there any FM's that can be used for the same.
I can not use GUI_DOWNLOAD in this case.
I am working on a CRM5.0 system.
Any pointers on the same would be really helpful.
Regards
Avinash

Hi Avinash,
If you didn't use a BSP technology (ASP/PHP/JSP) before it will be very complicated to impiment this.
The other way to do it (but I'm not sure I didn't tried it) is to create a file on the server and generate link to this file that user will click on it.
I think it should be much complicated because of the security issue (which user have different security policy) and you need to manage files on the server (how long you gonna keep them there ? is evry user wil create it own file ? etc')
As you can see there is a lot of different issues that you should take care when working on the web
Good Luck
Eli Steklov

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Download from alv to excel in background

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