We are trying to upgrade from Birt 2.3.0 to 2.6.0. Earlier in 2.3 when exporting report to Excel it used to hide all the images (company logo, chart images, footer etc) and that was an OK behavior for us as we don't need images to show up in Excel, but in 2.6 we have noticed that the excel emitter puts in empty space for the images (no image is shown, but the space is taken) and following warning message is thrown in the log,<br />
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<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>Sep 14, 2010 11:43:39 AM org.eclipse.birt.report.engine.emitter.excel.ExcelEmitter needOutputInMasterPage
WARNING: Excel page header and footer don't support embeded grid.</pre>
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Is there any way (configuration change or something) so we can go back to 2.3 behavior for Excel export? As putting empty cells just messes up the formatting in Excel if the user wants to do any data manipulation in spreadsheet. <br />
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I saw couple of related bugs filed - not sure if they are related,<br />
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<a class='bbc_url' href='
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=246249'>https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=246249</a><br />
<a class='bbc_url' href='
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=237488'>https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=237488</a><br />
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Thanks,<br />
-vivek