Comments on: TRUTH: Business Objects Does Not Create an Excel File, Help!

By: Ushasri

Ushasri — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:22:24 +0000

thankyou for the information. We are facing the same issue here. The scheduled status in infoview shows success but users are not receiving any email in excel format. However, if we select some other format they are able to receive it through email. But when we check the instace in history we can view the excel generated. It was working earlier but failing since last week.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:57:46 +0000

Thanks Julian – that does actually work – it gives me an option at least, although I would prefer A4/Portrait – I will check with my users and see if this will satisfy them

By: Julian

Julian — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 04:17:20 +0000

Hi Bob, I am not sure about this, but what if your report’s page size is passed into the Excel export? Try adjusting to an A3 or A2 page size or try landscape and see what happens. If that doesn’t do it then I don’t think there is a way to configure Business Objects to set the page width of the Excel output.

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 12:16:56 +0000

Another question to do with Excel – I have a report layed out as a form. Users are required to refresh it, save to Excel and add some more information, before printing it. The layout of the form is such that Excel is forcing it over two page widths. Manually narrowing the left print margin in Excel will fix the problem, but I would like to do this be default. I have made the form as narrow as I can manage. Can I adjust any settings in BO, or is the Excel default template being used? I’m using BO XI R3/Webi

By: Julian

Julian — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 14:02:48 +0000

Hi Rosemary I believe that there is a table option (select the outer border of the table to see the table properties) that allows you to specify to “repeat header rows on new pages”. As for displaying the last row… here are my thoughts:
1) If the page is sufficient to hold all of the table’s data than you will see the last row.
2) If the table spills over on to a second page and you still want to see the table “footer” on the first page… well if there is no setting for this than this is expected behavior. Please look at the table properties and see what you see.
Please share your findings here. Good luck!

By: Rosemary

Rosemary — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 18:50:22 +0000

Hi Julian:

I am having problems with Web I not displaying the first row in a second page (or not displaying last row in first page) of a report.
Downloads to excel show all the data.

Have you experienced this problem before?
I am running Web i in BO XI R 2

By: roger dold

roger dold — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:35:17 +0000

I have seen similar solutions with the addition of lookup tables in the Excel file to enhance the final output.

By: Julian

Julian — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:12:01 +0000

Business Objects’ output of Excel does not depend on anything on the client PC. You will find that the PC that finds the Excel report unreadable would experience the same issue if another PC was used to receive the Excel file from BO and then forward it to that PC. In other words the solution lies on that PC. Are you sure that the PC with the trouble has Excel installed?

By: Elke

Elke — Mon, 15 Nov 2010 21:02:07 +0000

hello,
we have problems with excel exports too but they appear very localy only on one pc.They do not refer to the size of the result of a query.
Running the report on one pc everything works fine, running it on another one with technical identical features Excel cannot open the delivered file. It is unreadable.
Might be a simple problem but not for us.
Does anyone have had similiar problems and a solution?

By: John Baker

John Baker — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 06:53:54 +0000

I have the smae problem, but it seems to occur ONLY when there is a sufficiently large volume of data in the output file. Instead of outputing the 10000 rows and 50 columns it outputs one blank cell with a width of about 100 in Cell A.