Problem in Excel output

I created an oracle report to generate (Oracle reports 10g) PDF output and called it from APEX through rwservlet and I am getting the output without any issues but if I repeat the same process for CSV output i am getting unwanted output. it not resembles the Layout model it retrieves all the column in the data model.
the parameters I am passing through APEX
Dataformat : delimited
Datatype: catch
Please help me to solve this problem.
Edited by: Sezhiyan on Aug 24, 2011 5:14 AM
Edited by: Sezhiyan on Aug 24, 2011 5:15 AM

check the structures, if you made changes is the correct structure or not...
make sure data is beeing pulled into you tables before passing to excel FM..

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