Restricting the CSV Output

Hi
we want to restrict some of the columns in the csv output is there any way to do it other than using extext templates.
Thanks in Advance,
Have a Nice day

Thanks for your reply .
But i am having some idea will it can be implemented.
as you said it will depend on the datamodel .
Consider i am having 2 datasets in my datamodel for my report to get the pdf,html,excel.
so i want to add one more data set in the same data model with llimited number of columns in the select query and i want to use that dataset in the datamodel in the report generation when i choose the csv ouput.
Is it possible i am using bi publisher 11g.
So if it is possbile i can restrict my output in csv format too.
This is my idea i dont know whether it is possible or not.

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