Problem while opening data from mysql in Excel

Question

Hi friends
when i try to download data from MySQL to excel sheet I am getting error of
This file is not in a recognizable format.
. If you know the file is from another program which is incompatible with Microsoft Office Excel,click Cancel then open this file in its original application.If you want to open the file later in Microsoft Office Excel,save it in a format that is compatible,such as text format.
etc
Code is
Class.forName("org.gjt.mm.mysql.Driver");
Connection conn = DriverManager.getConnection("xxxxxx");
Statement st = conn.createStatement();
StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
sb.append("SAP#" + "\t");
sb.append("x-plant status" + "\t");
sb.append("Total Amount" +"\t");
sb.append(">90 days" + "\t");
sb.append("\n");
try
String query="select * from temp_Xplant";
ResultSet rs = st.executeQuery(query);
while(rs.next()){
sb.append(rs.getString("sapNo") + "\t");
sb.append(rs.getString("status")+ "\t");
sb.append(rs.getString("amt") + "\t");
sb.append(rs.getString("days") + "\t");
sb.append("\n");
conn.close();
st.close();
catch (Exception e)
out.println("error");
conn.close();
st.close();
response.setContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel");
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=\"test.XLS\"");
I can open them after clicking OK, but before that it is showing the above error message
Thank you
Edited by: priyap on Apr 3, 2008 4:54 AM

Answer 1

hi,
there are some specific restrictions in downloading data in alv.
i.e you cannot have morethan 1024 characters that can be downloaded in single row.
so change your report columns accordingly.