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Opening Exported Spreadsheet Files

zax

Hi, 
 
I am trying to generate reports that are exported as Excel files, but I cannot get a result I can give to the end user. I can generate the reports in the viewer, both in Eclipse and on Tomcat. But when I export as an .xls file, the resulting file cannot be opened in Excel (well, as I am on Linux, I am using Microsoft Excel Viewer in Virtualbox). 
 
You can open the resulting file in OpenOffice if you change the file extension to .xml, but again, this is not desireable. 
 
I have tried the Xls emitter for BIRT (Tribix) [Version 2.5.1] with Eclipse and that did not work. I used instructions in this <a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/forum/index.php/topic/11900-use-birt-api-to-export-data-to-csv-excel/page__s__7db9d27e644c76b7c9bc1301a4bce267'>post.</a> 
 
But it did not work (even starting eclipse with -clean). In fact the option to export an Excel file disappeared from the interface. 
 
I was wondering if there are any other things I can try to produce a .xls file that the user can just double click open. 
 
Versions: 
Eclipse Helios 
BIRT: 2.6.1 
Ubuntu 10.04 
 
Thanks in advance, 
Stephen

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mwilliams

Hi Stephen,

I have not heard of this issue happening before. Of course, I've never seen anyone say they're using Excel viewer on virtualbox either, so it could be an issue with that. Don't know why that would be though. As far as the Tribix emitter not working, I have not tried to use the 2.5.1 Tribix version in 2.6, so I don't know if that will even work at all.