Unexpected behavior of Excel export

Hi,
I've reports with export to excel enabled.
One report gives one line as a result, the export "no data found".
The other rport gives several lines as result, the export only a part of it.
Any ideas how to solve this ?
Any reaction will be appreciated.
Leo

Hi Dimitri,
I've found the reason.
I use a parameter to select the records. And in this parameter I have a default value (to copy the application from one workspace to another, and the primary keys in the workspace are not the same). So, each time I've copied the application, I update the default value.
Exporting the data, the default value seems to be lost.
Leo
PS nice writing : a guy like you.....

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