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Bug 159491

Summary: Microsoft Word and Excel Output
Product: z_Archived Reporter: Krishna Venkatraman <kvenkatraman>
Component: BIRTAssignee: Birt-ReportEngine-inbox <Birt-ReportEngine-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: bluesoldier, deleted_36229, noban, perseusli, rkanguri, whe
Version: 2.1.1Keywords: plan
Target Milestone: 2.2.0   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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first draft on excel exporting none

Description Krishna Venkatraman CLA 2006-10-02 15:41:08 EDT 
Users who receive reports often want to distribute these reports to a wider audience via email in order to share information. In the process of doing this, they may want to export the report to a common format such as MS Word or Excel, make the edits and then distribute the Word file or Excel spreadsheet. For usability, the receiver of the email would rather access the document as an MS Office file. PDF is often not an option since the user wants to make edits to the file. The MS Word and Excel report format converters approximate the look and spacing of elements in the original report to Word and Excel formats respectively.
Comment 1 Lin Zhu CLA 2006-10-06 02:06:35 EDT 
I believe Engine team should take a look of this issue.
Comment 2 Larry Liang CLA 2006-11-03 18:52:59 EST 
Created attachment 53241 [details]
first draft on excel exporting

This is a proposal for excel exporting for BIRT. Please forward comments to the pmc mailing list.
Comment 3 Krishna Venkatraman CLA 2007-02-01 20:54:28 EST 
Some minor comments:

The Excel emitter should allow the user to 1) select an object to export or 2) export all objects in a report. This would be similar to the CSV exporting functionality.

Hyperlinks should function according to the output format defined in the link definition.
Comment 4 sergio CLA 2007-02-21 10:39:06 EST 
First of all, I am not sure that this it is the correct site to make this proposal. We are developing a complex project which uses Eclipse Birt technology in order to generate a huge report (between 40 and 50 pages), we need urgently the new feature Bugzilla ID: 159491 “Microsoft Word and Excel Outputs” explained in your bugzilla system to close our project.
We would like to know if is possible we could obtain that new feature before April in this case we are willing to pay a quantity or contribution to your project.
If this isn´t possible we could access to beta versions in order to test them?

Thank you,
Comment 5 deleted_36229 CLA 2007-03-08 02:20:19 EST 
"Maximum rows" problem can be solved by splitting output into multiple sheets within document. I think it's more user-friendly solution than just discarding other rows.
Comment 6 Wei Yan CLA 2007-05-18 19:36:24 EDT 
has supported.
Comment 7 Krishna Venkatraman CLA 2007-06-18 18:13:46 EDT 
This project now also includes being able to generate PowerPoint output from BIRT.