Windows csv export in numbers

How do you export in Numbers CSV file in Windows Format?

What exactly are you trying to achieve that you are not getting with Numbers' CSV export?

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Numbers to CSV export script: how to specify the encoding?

Hi,
I'm using the following script to export a Numbers document to CSV:
# Command-line tool to convert an iWork '09 Numbers
# document to CSV.
# Parameters:
# - input: Numbers input file
# - output: CSV output file
# Attik System, Philippe Lang
# Creation date: 31 mai 2012
# Modification date:
on run argv
# We retreive the path of the script
          set myPath to (path to me)
          tell application "Finder" to set myFolder to folder of myPath
# We get the command line parameters
          set input_file to item 1 of argv
          set output_file to item 2 of argv
# We retreive the extension of the file
          set theInfo to (info for (input_file))
          set extname to name extension of (theInfo)
# Paths
          set input_file_path to (myFolder as text) & input_file
          set output_file_path to (myFolder as text) & output_file
          if extname is equal to "numbers" then
    tell application "Numbers"
      open input_file_path
      save document 1 as "LSDocumentTypeCSV" in output_file_path
      close every window saving no
    end tell
          end if
end run
It works fine, except that I don't know how to specify the encoding of the text in the CSV file (Latin1, MacRoman, Unicode). This option is available in the export dialog of Numbers. Any hint on how to do that is welcome. (GUI Scripting?)
Where can I find documentation on the iWork "vocabulary" available? Is there a definitive documentation somewhere? I tried to record an manual export in the script editor, without success. Script is more or less empty.
Thanks!
Philippe Lang

A further note from Yvan. He's made some revisions to the script sent earlier.
--{code}
--[SCRIPT export to CSV with selected encoding]
I added some features.
(1) Defining the encoding thru the preferences file apply only if
the application is not in use because the file is read only once in a session.
A test urge you to quit Numbers if it is running.
(2) info for is deprecated so it may be removed by Apple tomorrow.
I no longer use it.
(3) just for the fun, I added a piece of code allowing you to select the encoding on the fly.
Thanks to the property chooseEncodingInScript, at this time the script use Unicode (UTF-8)
(4) I'm wondering which tool is used to launch this script,
I don't know the way to pass arguments when I run one.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France)
2012/06/13
property chooseEncodingInScript : false
true = the script will ask you to select the encoding
false = the script use the embedded encoding
on run argv
set input_file to (item 1 of argv) as text
set output_file to (item 2 of argv) as text
set myPath to (path to me) as text
          tell application "System Events"
set theProcesses to name of every application process
set myFolder to path of container of (disk item myPath)
set input_file_path to myFolder & input_file
set output_file_path to myFolder & output_file
set extname to name extension of (disk item input_file)
end tell
          if extname is "numbers" then
                    if "Numbers" is in theProcesses then error "Please, quit “Numbers” before running this script !"
if chooseEncodingInScript then
                              set theList to {"Mac OS Roman", "Unicode (UTF-8)", "Windows Latin 1"}
                              set maybe to choose from list theList with prompt "Choose the default encoding applying to export as CSV"
if maybe is false then
error number -128
else if item 1 of maybe is item 1 of theList then
                                        30 -- Mac OS Roman
else if item 1 of maybe is item 2 of theList then
                                        4 -- Unicode (UTF-8)
else
                                        12 -- Windows Latin 1
end if
else
                              4 -- Unicode (UTF-8)
end if
                    do shell script "defaults write com.apple.iWork.Numbers CSVExportEncoding -int " & result
tell application "Numbers"
open input_file_path
                              save document 1 as "LSDocumentTypeCSV" in output_file_path
close every window saving no
end tell
end if
end run
--{code}
Regards,
Barry

When to export a numbers file to csv the minus signs don't work with R

Friends,
I have trouble getting the statistic program R to read my exported CSV-files from Numbers.
The minus sign doesn't work, R reads it as a factoric input rather than numeric.
Does anyone have a tip how to reformat this?
Jocke

Wayne, actually, I'm not sure but I think that factoric - or factorial is the denomination that R uses to say that somthing is rather a text than a numeric number - I'm pretty new to R.
But, anyway, we solved the problem but in a lillte bit of an awkward way.
The problem is that the minus sugns in numbers is percieved as dashes in R
(http://www.R-project.org, a free-ware statistical analysis program)
So where there is a numeric input with a minus sign R thinks it is a letter rather than a number.
We solved it by exporting the numbers file to CSV, opened it in text editor, copied the suspisios minus sign and pasted it into the search field to find all dashes/minus sign that didn't work and replaced them with a minus sign. After this operation, nothing different could be seen in the text but R saw the difference.
So this makes it difficult to explain by posting a screenshot - it looks the same but it isn't.
The funny thing is that the dashes that numbers use when to express a date are percieved as minus signs by R.
Can anyone understand what I tried to explain? And if so, is there a simpler way to do this? We have a lot of minus signs to export to R.....
best regard
Joachim

I am trying to export a Numbers spreadsheet to a csv file, but it does not put the commas in

I am trying to export a Numbers spreadsheet to a csv file, but it does not put the commas in. I want to use it with an HTML table generator tool, but the tool is looking for commas. The Export to CSV exports it as a spreadsheet with all the formatting removed, and no commas.
Here is the html table tool:
http://www.textfixer.com/html/csv-convert-table.php

Numbers '09 create CSV files with comma separated values if and only if your system is using decimal period.
If the system is using decimal comma, the CSV files are created using semi-colon as separator.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 11 décembre 2011 11:11:25
iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 12 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8 and 10.7.2
My iDisk is : <http://public.me.com/koenigyvan>
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High performance CSV export

Hi,
I have been looking for a way to export huge datasets to CSV format for import with MySql.
As sqlplus SPOOL turned out to be slow and difficult to use, I ended up coding my own importer using the OCCI library.
I successfully compiled my code under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, 64 bit, and Oracle Instant Client 12.1. But as it only uses C++ STL and OCCI, it should as well build under other environments (e.g. Windows).
Here's the code:
* ociexport.cpp - High performance ORACLE to CSV export (using OCCI and STL)
* This program takes the ORACLE connection information from the following
* environment variables:
* ORACLE_USER, ORACLE_PASS, ORACLE_CONN
* Fields are exported in a CSV with delimiter ';'. Semicola within the fields
* are escaped with '\;'. Newlines and tabs in the fields are replaced by blanks.
* Empty fields and NULL values are exported as '\N' for easy MySQL import.
* CLOBS are exported as well. BLOBS and BFILES are not supported atm.
* Don't forget to set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to your Oracle Client libs when
* building and running this program.
* @param $1 Select-Statement
* @param $2 Output file (optional - if empty, output goes to stdout)
* @author Bert Klauninger
* @version 0.1.0
* @changelog
*    2013-12-13 - Created
*    2013-12-16 - Added CLOB streaming support
#include <cstdlib>
#include <cstring>
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <string>
#include <vector>
#include "occi.h"
using namespace oracle::occi;
using namespace std;
#define BUFFER_SIZE        1024                        // Maximal characters of a LOB to be exported
* Escape all occurrences of ';' and convert newlines and tabs to blanks
string csv_escape(string src) {
    string result;
    const int imax = src.length();
    for (int i = 0; i < imax; ++i) {
        switch (src[i]) {
            case '\n':
            case '\r':
            case '\t':
                result += ' ';
                break;
            case ';':
                result += '\\';
                result += ';';
                break;
            default:
                result += src[i];
    return result;
* Execute a query and write CSV to the given file.
*    NB: Empty fields are exported as NULL values!
void select_into(Connection *con, string sql, string file) {
    if (! con) {
        return;
    bool fo = ! file.empty();
    ofstream o;
    if (fo) o.open(file.c_str(), ofstream::out);
    Statement *s = con->createStatement(sql);
    ResultSet *r = s->executeQuery();
    vector<MetaData> m = r->getColumnListMetaData();
    const int cols = m.size();
    if (fo) cout << "Result has " << cols << " cols" << endl;
    int cnt = 0;
    while (r->next()) {
        string line;
        ++cnt;
        /* Stupid ORACLE starts numbering at 1, not 0 */
        for (int i = 1; i <= cols; ++i) {
            string col;
            /* ...but: Metadata vector starts at 0 */
            int t = m[i - 1].getInt(MetaData::ATTR_DATA_TYPE);
            if (t == OCCI_SQLT_CLOB) {
                /* Get the CLOB object via stream */
                Clob clob = r->getClob(i);
                if (! clob.isNull()) {
                    clob.open(OCCI_LOB_READONLY);
                    int len = clob.length();
                    Stream *instream = clob.getStream();
                    char *buffer = new char[BUFFER_SIZE];
                    memset(buffer, 0, BUFFER_SIZE);
                    int r = 0;
                    do {
                        r = instream->readBuffer(buffer, len);
                        for (int i = 0; i < r; ++i) {
                            col += (char) buffer[i];
                    } while (r != -1);
                    delete[] buffer;
                    clob.closeStream(instream);
                    clob.close();
            } else if (! r->isNull(i)) {
                /* Try to get field value as string */
                col = r->getString(i);
            if (col.empty()) {
                line += "\\N";
            } else {
                line += csv_escape(col);
            if (i < cols) {
                line += ';';
        if (fo) {
            o << line << endl;
        } else {
            cout << line << endl;
    s->closeResultSet(r);
    con->terminateStatement(s);
    if (fo) cout << cnt << " rows exported" << endl;
/*** MAIN ***/
int main (int argc, char* argv[]) {
    if (! (argc == 2 || argc == 3)) {
        cerr << "Usage: " << argv[0] << " sql-statement [output-file.csv]" << endl << endl;
        cerr << "Output file uses column separator ';'. Semicola are escaped using '\\;'." << endl;
        cerr << "NULL values and empty fields are exported as '\\N'." << endl;
        cerr << "If no output file is specified, quieted output is sent to stdout." << endl;
        cerr << "Login credentials can be set via the following environment variabes:" << endl;
        cerr << "ORACLE_USER, ORACLE_PASS, ORACLE_CONN" << endl << endl;
        return 1;
    const string user = getenv("ORACLE_USER");
    const string pass = getenv("ORACLE_PASS");
    const string osid = getenv("ORACLE_CONN");
    const string sql = argv[1];
    const string outfile = (argc == 3) ? argv[2] : "";
    bool fo = ! outfile.empty();
    Environment* env = Environment::createEnvironment(Environment::DEFAULT);
    int ret = 0;
    try {
        if (fo) cout << "Connecting as " << user << "@" << osid << endl;
        Connection* const con = env->createConnection(user, pass, osid);
        if (fo) {
            cout << "Executing query " << sql << endl;
            cout << "Writing results to " << outfile << endl;
        select_into(con, sql, outfile);
        if (fo) cout << "Closing connection" << endl;
        env->terminateConnection(con);
    } catch (SQLException ea) {
        cerr << "Error: " << ea.what();
        ret = 1;
    Environment::terminateEnvironment(env);
    return ret;
My Makefile:
ociexport: ociexport.cpp
        LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64/lib \
                gcc -Wall -g -I /usr/include/oracle/12.1/client64 \
                -L /usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64/lib \
                -o bin/ociexport ociexport.cpp \
                -lclntsh -lnnz12 -locci
Program call:
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/12.1/client64/lib
$ export ORACLE_USER=your_user
$ export ORACLE_PASS=your_pass
$ export ORACLE_CONN=your_connection_string
$ ./ociexport "SELECT * FROM applications" > export.csv
Best regards
Bert

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German Umlaut in CSV export on mac os

Hello,
i have problems with the csv export when i use an apple mac. German Umlaute are not displayed correctly, neither when i open the .csv file with TextApp nor when i open it with Numbers from iWork.
On a windows machine all is fine. Excel and every text editor i tried opens the file fine with the umlaute displaying correct.
The application is set to automatically encode the csv and application language is set to german.
Is there any other setting that i can change to get a correct csv export on an apple mac?
Apex version is 4.0.2.00.07, Oracle version is 11.2.0.1.0.
Thanks for help in advance,
Dirk

Hi Dirk,
Most likely, the Automatic CSV encoding attribute is set to 'Yes' for your application. If you're running your application in German, then the CSV file will be encoded in WE8MSWIN1252.
Can you try setting Automatic CSV Encoding to "No" (in the Globalization attributes of your application)? The CSV file will then be encoded in UTF-8 - which means that your Windows users may not open it directly but, instead, have to do a data import and specify utf-8 character set.
Joel

Multiple CSV exports from the one button or pl/sql procedure?

I need to have multiple csv exports from the one press of a button. The easiest way I found to do this is it to use javascript to popup three windows, each as a CSV link. This is a bit ugly though, and leaves the browser popup windows open when the file has been downloaded.
I guess I could also make a solution based on branching, but I think that would be difficult to maintain and reeks of bad design (im not a fan of this spagetti GOTO style code!).
I implemented Scott's custom CSV as found here: http://spendolini.blogspot.com/2006/04/custom-export-to-csv.html
However I would like to know if its possible to download more than one file using this method. I could not work out how to do this .
Has anyone got any ideas? Simply repeating the code puts the second table into the original csv file. Is there a way to 'reset' the htp writer or smoething?
Any help greatly appreciated,
Alex

Sorry for the confusion - I guess I mean its easy in .NET because you can simply compress files together and then send 1 zip file down as the response. See http://www.developer.com/net/net/article.php/11087_3510026_2 for details.
I guess I could ask how to do this in APEX - but it seems to me that my original wording addresses the concept at a much more abstract level. I may not find the best solution for my problem if I just asked 'how can I dynamically zip together three tables as seperate files and send them to the client?'. I also suspect that this method is not possible in APEX without custom packages. Please prove me wrong!
I guess even if I could find some kind of javascript that didnt open a new window, but was a direct download to the CSV, that would be a good compromise. At the moment when you click on the link, three windows come up and stay blank until the files are ready for downloading. Then after the files have been downloaded the windows must be shut manually. Yes, I could use javascript to make the windows 1x1 pixel perhaps, and then shut them after a predetermined timeframe - but this is hardly an elegant solution!
Thanks for your responses.

How to import csv-file in Numbers 3.2.2.

I start using Numbers in stead of Excel. I would like to import csv-files from my bank, but when I open the csv-file in Numbers, everything is imported in the same cell. I composed a testfile: 01/08/2014,”text”,”more text”,”even more text” in Pages, exported to a textfile and changed the extension from .txt in .csv. It did not help, everything was in the same cell. What must be changed to become successful in importing csv-files? I am using Numbers 3.2.2. and an iMac with 2,8 GHz Intel Core i7 processor and 8 GB 1067 MHz DDR3 memory with OS X 10.9.4.
Thanks, Joan Voormolen

You can do this using Pages. Without using outside scripts or functions. The Pages Find/Replace function will let you change the delimiter on the data in your file.
Open the file in Pages. Click Show Invisibles. (this will show you the delimiter used in the file)
If you see a * as the delimiter, that is a space. Some data files are space delimited. This is a really poor way to delimit numerical data files.
If you see a fat arrow to the right, the file is Tab delimited
Obviously, a comma is not a hidden character. Some files are comma delimited
Whatever else might have been used as a delimiter (for example a semi colon is sometimes used) will be apparent.
The delimiter should be something that is not used anywhere else in the "data"... text, numbers, etc., you want to delimit. Numbers considers a comma as a valid delimiter for files with the suffix .csv . It considers a tab as a valid delimiter with files with the suffix .txt . It does not consider spaces a valid delimiter in with any file suffix. But some programs use odd delimiters (semi colon, colon, double spaces, etc) as delimiters.
Use the Find command, then Find/Replace as you need to create that delimiter numbers recognizes. Let's say a semi colon was used as a delimiter. Enter the current delimiter (semi colon) into the Find box. Pages should highlight all the instances of your entry. Enter a comma (to create comma delimited data file) in the Replace box. You should now see a comma as the delimiter.
Important Don't forget, any other comma used in the file will also be considered a delimiter. (a comma in 1,000 for example). So check the data. If you see a comma used another way you will want to eliminate that BEFORE you do the "comma as delimiter" replacement. If you have 1,000, do a find/replace with comma as the find, nothing as the replace, first. THEN do the replacement of the semi colon.
Now comes the "tricky" part from what I could see. You want to save this new file with a suffix of .csv. (Export the file) Numbers will only open a comma delimited file with separated data (by comma) if it's suffix is .csv. Pages only gives you limited export options and puts the file suffix on for you automatically. CSV is not one of the options!
Choose Text. Pages will name the file .txt. Quit Pages. Go to the file on your desktop (or wherever you saved it). Change the file suffiix from .txt to .csv.
That's it. Open the file with Numbers. Numbers will create a separate column for everything between the comma's.
You can use this same method to alter your data file before you import it into Numbers. For example, one file I wanted to import had time=xxx . I only wanted the actual time, not the text attached to it, in my spreadsheet. I did a find/replace with "time=" as the find. A comma as the replace. Even though "time=xxx" is one "word", Pages identified the "time=" within the word to allow the replacement.
Numbers does not provide a "choose delimiter" function when opening a file. Instead it automatically uses the standard delimiter based on the file suffix. CSV means Comma, so if the file is named .csv it will only look for and use a comma as the delimiter to put the data into separate columns. I believe .txt uses only a tab as the delimiter. In the above example you could find/replace to a Tab. Then Export to Text. And numbers will open the data into columns the way you want, without the extra step of renaming the file on your desktop.
While some files use a second space (ie two in a row) as a delimiter that's a nasty way to delimit. You always want a specific delimiter that is not used within the data element.
The above is to import numerical data into separate columns. You could use the same method to manipulate a file that contains text. Let's say you had a file with the suffix .txt. In the file are names and addresses. John Smith 246 Rose Road . You want Name in one column. Address in another. Look at all the spaces, which ones should be delimiters which not? Are there any delimiters in the file?
If you open with Pages and choose show invisibles you can see. You might see John Smith --> 246 Rose Road. (the --> will look like a fat arrow in Pages). Numbers will open this file, IF it has .txt as the suffix, based on the Tab, with name in one column, Address in another.
Or you might see John*Smith**246*Rose*Road. Even though the creator of this intended two spaces to be a delimiter Numbers does not recognize that. Numbers will put everything into one column. The fix? In Pages, put a tab between name and address. Find/replace two spaces with Tab. Export, as Text.
Based on what you see (with show invisible active) in Pages, you can use the Find/Replace function to create the specific delimiter you want (tab or comma). You can use that function to manipulate the file easily so the data you want shows up in separate columns. You may need to get clever to accomplish the unique delimiters. You might even need to do two passes with Find/Replace.
In the instance above if there was only one space between each element. (not two as a pseudo delimiter) You could replace all spaces with a tab in Pages. Export as Text. Numbers will open that file with a column for each word (one for John, one for Smith). Then "Merge" the two cells (columns) you want to put back together.

How to give dynamic name for csv export files?

Hi,
how we can give dynamic file name for each csv export file? ex(&item_name.csv)
I am using apex 4.1 and IE 6,
thanks in advance
regards
Chandran

Please help me on this
I am using report template as a csv export..
when user click on download link on other page he will redirect to csv export temlate page and he is is directly get the open or save window
but dynamic title name is not working for only for this.
regards
Chandran

How to gracefully import CSV files into Numbers.app v3?

I've posted this as a question at Stack Exchange, also…
I have a process, which has worked faithfully for years in Numbers '09, whereby I download my Bank account data in CSV format, then drag that data directly into my Numbers sheet (after creating an appropriate number of blank rows).
This no longer works, and I can't find an option to import csv! A help search within numbers for 'csv' returns a single result which describes exporting.
I've tried the old method, no dice. Also, the menu option: Insert > Choose… doesn't permit .csv to be selected.
At the moment, my workaround is:
drag the CSV onto the Numbers dock or task-switcher icon to create a temp sheet
select and copy the content
paste-and-match-format into my desired location
close don't save the temp file
Doe anyone know a better way? A hack or hidden flag I can toggle to get the old functionality back?

Hi David,
Your CSV file seems to be a hybrid (mongrel). Where did it originate?
Regions that use a full-stop (.) as as the decimal point use comma (,) as the separator in CSV files. But wait, there is more! CSV can also mean Character Separated Values, and that character could be semi-colon (;) or Tab.
Are you able to open that file in TextEdit or Pages or Word and replace the separator? Replacing ; with Tab may work.
I must admit that I have never had trouble with CSV opening in Numbers with a double-click in Finder. For example, my bank statements download with what works in my Region (strings enclosed with "double quotes" and columns separated by commas and numbers with a full-stop as the decimal point. Maybe I am just lucky. .
Regards,
Ian.

Renaming extracted Single windows IDcs5 documents using a windows CSV-file

I'm not a scripter and I'm in need of a script that will rename extracted single pages using a column from a windows CSV-file to name each InDesign file accordingly. I have search the forums but all I can find is a Renaming extracted single pdf pages as in this post http://forums.adobe.com/message/4633533#4633533#4633533 I've been told that I could adjust such scripting but I don't know how. I will like to acomplish the same but Exporting single InDesing pages. Does anyone has a script that can be share on how to do such thing? Either through ID or using Bridge?

The link highlighted in your post splits a large PDF into single page PDFs based on a csv/txt file within Acrobat - it isn't an InDesign Script.
There is an indesign script you can try and it is written by Loic Aigon: go to http://www.loicaigon.com/en/pdf-exports-properly-named/ read the article and see if it is appropriate for you.
There is another indesign script you can try but it is in german. See the adobe forum post http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1014766 for more information.
Hope this helps
Colin

Importing a .csv file into numbers

thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
i am a spreadsheet newbie. i am attempting to open a .csv file in numbers. this file when opened on the internet does have each filed seperated by commas, not tabs. when i drag it into numbers, it opens each line in its own row, however it puts the entire information (lets say 5 commas worth) in one column.
so what i am getting is everything in a numbered row but the program does not appear to be recognizing the commas as a reason to put the information in its own column.
this is not a life threatening endeavor, i am just trying to organize my guitar magazine collection. i would like to find the song by doing a search of columns/rows and i do not think i can do it as is.
thanks again...
Message was edited by: pensncrows

60wpm wrote:
I've tried putting in: ¶ - then for MS Word I heard you could put in ^p and/or \n --- but they didn't work.
!? -- So what do I put in the Replace Text Field box?
To type a return into the Find/Replace dialogue, Pages uses option-return, Text Wrangler uses command-return (or type \r), haven't checked Text Edit.
If you Show Invisibles (View menu in Pages, Edit menu > Text Options in Text Wrangler, text Edit doesn't appear to have the option of viewing the invisible characters), you can copy a return, and paste it into the box in pretty much any application that will display the invisible characters. Actually, you should be able to copy the return character even without being able to see it—select from just after the last visible character in a 'paragraph' to the very beginning of the next line, Copy—but it is nice to be able to see what you're doing.
(I have Pages, MacJournal, Bean, & Text Wrangler and a few other word processing program)
One note on Pages: Pages does not offer the option to Save as..Text. For that, you have to go File > Export... and choose Plain Text.
To restate the problem (and I appreciate your help)
I have a new mailing list with about 100 emails that are separated by commas. The program I'm using seems to require each email be on a separate line. So instead of:
[email protected], [email protected]
I want:
[email protected],
[email protected]
So I just want to do a find and replace on "," and replace it with ", carriage return".
It would be SO GREAT to finally overcome this hurdle.
Any of the three options above should do the job.
Regards,
Barry

BUG: SQL Developer 1.5.3 CSV export column order broken

There's a bug in the 1.5.3 release of SQL Developer regarding data export. This bug re-orders the column order in the data export to be alphabetically sorted. This produces mangled CSV files if used on a table or a view.
This is a critical bug to me since I need to produce lots of ad-hoc data CSV export files. I'm staying with SQL Developer 1.5.0.53 (53.38) for now as it doesn't have this problem.
This is the same bug as present in Jdeveloper 11.1 as described in my post here: BUG: Jdev 11.1.1.0.0 -- DB table data export column order is not preserved
Quoted from that post:
When I connect to Oracle database, get the table list, right click on the table and select 'Export Data'->csv. The dialog box opens with three tabs: Format, Columns, Where. The column order displayed in both tabs Columns and Where is alphabetic. Because alphabetic ordering re-arranges columns from their initial ordering in the table, this screws up CSV export because columns are not in their intended order. This same problem occurs when I try to export data from views to generate a CSV file with a particular column order.
Please open/check bug report if it's already open.
Thanks!

This happens with all of the export options for tables or views if you right click from the connections tab table list. If I pull it up in the main window and go to the data tab, I can then right click and it will keep the column id order for some of the views and tables. But not all.
I am running 1.5.3 Build Main 5783 on a Windows XP Professional Service Pack 3 platform

BI 7 Web Templates: Problems with csv-export

Hi all,
I am aware that a csv-export out of a web template is associated with excel, meaning that the export in csv opens in excel.
Nevertheless my problem is, that in the course of the export process several blank columns are inserted.
So when I afterwards open the file with the "windows editor" for example I have a result like
PLZ;;;45133 where I expected
PLZ;45133
Has anyone an idea?
Best regards
Mark

Hello,
Is there a hierarchy involved?
If yes, then the blank spaces are inserted due to the hierarchy. When the hierarchy is drilled down, the blank spaces are inserted to show the hierarchy structure. Unfortunately, this is standard and cannot be changed using standard BW functionality.
Thanks,
Michael

Report + Jquery + CSV export = jquery result lost

We have some IR reports with breaks. We put these next to eachother on specific headers with jquery code in the report. But when we do an export i want the same results as shown in the report. The changes made in Jquery get lost when i do a CSV export. Is there some way to get the same columns next to each other like in the report on the screen? or is there some other way to get the same result using something other than jquery? We are now want to making a function in DB using dynamic sql that returns a query to apex report but there should be some easier way in Apex than this no?
Thanks in advance

@ TexasApexDeveloper i asked this question on linkedin Apex group before. But not here. So there no way to show the breaks next to eachother in the CSV file? with or without use of Jquery?
@ Tyson: no sample app.
Standard behavier of IR report:
department :1
col1 col2 col3 col4
BREAK
col1 col2 col3 col4
BREAK
col1 col2 col3 col4
BREAK
col1 col2 col3 col4
BREAK
department :2
col1 col2 col3 col4
BREAK
col1 col2 col3 col4
BREAK
With Jquery made it look like this
department 1
col1 col2 col3 col4 BREAK col1 col2 col3 col4 BREAK col1 col2 col3 col4 BREAK col1 col2 col3 col4 BREAK
department 2
col1 col2 col3 col4 BREAK col1 col2 col3 col4 BREAK col1 col2 col3 col4 BREAK col1 col2 col3 col4 BREAK
i want the data like this in CSV, so that then user opens this in excel the data is presented horizontaly per department:
department 1
col1 col2 col3 col4 BREAK col1 col2 col3 col4 BREAK col1 col2 col3 col4 BREAK col1 col2 col3 col4 BREAK
department 2
col1 col2 col3 col4 BREAK col1 col2 col3 col4 BREAK col1 col2 col3 col4 BREAK col1 col2 col3 col4 BREAK

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