Export to CSV: Enhancement requests

Could I request the following enhancements in the Export to CSV feature?
1. Allow only specific columns to be exported, not all the columns shown on the report
2. Allow the column heading row to be optional
3. Allow the option to create a formatted spreadsheet using the SYLK format (this will allow basic formatting like bold column headers, aligning data, etc)
Thanks

Vikas,
Thank you for your suggestions. Conditionally including or excluding certain columns is a good idea. You can do that today if you setup a regular report and one used for the CSV export on another page. The second report would use the CSV template and you would branch there from the first page using a button or link. The queries could be the same, because you could just use column conditions to determine what columns to include. Of course this approach isnât ideal because you would have to maintain two reports. So Iâll look into adding conditions just for CSV exports and into adding an option to exclude the column headings. We used to have SYLK exports in earlier versions of HTML DB but this didnât seem to be a wildly used format anymore. We are however working on alternative and improved ways for formatting your report exports.
Thanks,
Marc

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