Universe Objects Displayed Via Live Office

Post Author: Natali
CA Forum: Xcelsius and Live Office
Universe Objects Displayed Via Live Office have different order list than these same Objects are in Webi
Is there known resolution?
Thank you
Natali

Hi Gloria,
I had a look at this in XI release 3.0 and received the same issue. The only way I could get this to work was to use the FormatNumber() method. This returns the value as a string, which live office represents with the trailing 0.
So if the cell value was 12345.6, then FormatNumber([my cell]; "#,##0.00") will display 12345.60. This will display correctly in Excel (except that it is justified as text) when brought in by live office.
This more of a work around than a fix, so you may want to raise a case.
Regards
Alan

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