Problems Exporting rpts to Excel!

Post Author: miguelitobh
CA Forum: Exporting
Hello Everybody! I´m new in the forum, and i have a question that is killing me... I´ve an application that runs asp and COM+ using Visual Basic... I made another litlle module for Crystal Reports rpts imports... I wrote the code using the Business Objects Samples like example (rtpserver.asp, etc) ands works fine. The problem that i´ve found is: In the export all the options are working, except the 2 excel´s types. When a try do export a report to Excel, i put the file name and try to save, but the application hangs my IIS server... Anyone can help me? I´m using Windows XP SP2, Office 2003 and Crystal Reports XI R2...
Tahnk´s

Wannetta,
When the user filters the data and then exports it to excel; all of the original data is exported rather than the filtered data.
Can you describe the exact workflow in a bit more detail. Here is one "gotcha" to consider, which sounds suspicous to your case. If the user is using InfoView (not WebI), and he or she uses Export to Excel with CSV, then there is no consideration to what has been done in the report, the contents of what you see in the "Results Object" panel from the Edit Query view is what is sent over to the CSV file. Also, the order of the columns of data is according to what is specified in the "Results Object" panel. So, just a heads-up to consider if this is happening or not. Otherwise, please give us the workflow and the version of XI and client's versioin of Java on the workstation...
Thanks,
John

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