30 November 2009

Weekly Dynamic: Report Writer Exports to Excel

Exporting Report Writer reports to a file for use in Excel is real pain. The headers export as well and lines wrap creating an awful lot of cleanup to make the report usable in Excel. Well the Support Debugging Tool provides an option in the Dex.ini settings area to prevent line wrapping in text report exports.

This eliminates one of the biggest problems of exporting Report Writer reports to Excel. Generally sorting options can clean up the headers pretty easily. While this doesn't eliminate the pain of sending RW reports to Excel it doesn make the process easier. The Support Debugging Tool is available from your partner. More information is available here.