HTML tags visible in downloaded Excel report

Question

Hi,
I have an Interactive Report, that uses a CASE statement with span tags to conditionally colour a date column. Unfortunately when users download the report to Excel or PDF, the span tags are displayed in the report. Is there an easy way to avoid/workaround this?
Thanks,
Mike
Edited by: Mike, UK on Mar 1, 2011 11:40 AM

Answer 1

Don't worry - my old firm stuck with Apex 1.6!
The SQL for the report is:
SELECT EMPNO, ENAME, HIREDATE,
CASE WHEN EXTRACT(YEAR FROM HIREDATE) >= 2009 THEN 'hilite' ELSE 'lolite' END CLASSNAME
FROM EMPYou need to use both "hilite" and "lolite" as every value will get a class attribute
All of the columns are set to "Standard Report Column" except for CLASSNAME which is set to "Hidden"
The HIREDATE column has the following settings:
Link text: #HIREDATE#
Link attributes: class="#CLASSNAME#"
Target: page in this application
Page: 241 (ie, the current page)
Though you can play about with the final two settings, if you like
The page attribute's HTML Header setting:
<style type="text/css">
.hilite {background-color:red!important; color:yellow!important;}
.lolite {color:black!important;}
.hilite:link, hilite:visited, hilite:hover, hilite:active {background-color:red!important; color:yellow!important; text-decoration:none!important;}
.lolite:link, lolite:visited, lolite:hover, lolite:active {text-decoration:none!important; color:black!important;}
#CLASSNAME {display:none;}
td[headers="CLASSNAME"] {display:none;}
</style>This just creates the highlighting by styling a link for each HIREDATE value. The STYLE tag settings, just make sure that the link doesn't look like a link.
I'm sure that there's plenty that could be done to make it a bit neater, but that should give you ideas!
Andy