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Status Future consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 6, 2023

Enable Excel formats for standard reports

Standard reports are, for the most part, only available to be downloaded in CSV format. This often causes issues when importing into Excel with data sets using non-English characters. It relates to, I think, encoding issues with UTF-8 vs. UTF-16 vs. ANSI. I would imaging that many, if not most, downloads of CSV files of standard reports are imported into MS Excel. So it would better if they were all made available in that formal natively. 

Idea priority Medium
Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool
  • Admin
    Eugene Yu
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    Jan 9, 2024

    Thanks for raising the idea.


    We will review this in the coming road map planning together with other UI related enhancement work. Report download and grid export are separate functional areas of the platform, so they will likely be reviewed and assessed separately.

  • Guest
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    Dec 1, 2023

    This idea also applies to grid export.

  • Guest
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    Dec 1, 2023

    After discussion with the customer. The business impact of this is high.
    Needed By should be ASAP, and Priority High.