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Status Planned for future release
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 12, 2022

Exporting BIRT Reports to Excel .xlsx format

Currently BIRT report exports only to older .xls format and most of the Federal Clients have upgrade to Microsoft 365 and blocked users from opening older version of Excel spreadsheets. This is causing users to open Exported BIRT reports in Excel and edit it before printing.

Idea priority Urgent
Needed By Yesterday (Let's go already!)
  • Guest
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    Feb 6, 2023

    TRIRIGA Web properties in Admin Console lists a property "BIRT_ALLOW_XLSX" which is marked false by default. If this is set to true, the pop-up of Export Report gets an additional option to export as .xlsx. This has been already utilized by the Air Force team with the issue being that the resultant .xlsx file errors out and does not open. This behavior has been replicated in TRIRIGA Platform Development environments and logged as a Platform bug which the team is currently investigating.

    As a parallel activity, the enhancement of .xlsx support is being worked upon via Report Scheduler. The current Notification engine provides an ability to export to .pdf and .xls which will be extended to .xlsx as well.

  • Guest
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    Dec 12, 2022

    XLSX has been the Excel default file format since 2007, so it makes good sense to have this updated as well.