[hobbit] Report in Excel format

[Asif Iqbal]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 09:20:54AM, Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> Hi Asif,
> 
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 07:42:47PM -0500, Asif Iqbal wrote:
> > 
> > Is it possible to add a feature to be able to create report in Excel
> > format? My director was wondering if that is possible.
> 
> Reporting in native Excel format is out of the question - it's way too
> complicated and proprietary a format.
> 
> I've had some requests for generating reports in CSV (comma-separated
> values) format. That is one option; a more flexible solution would be

Sorry that is--CSV--what I meant

> to export the report data in an XML format - since everybody seems to
> be adopting XML as a universal data exchange format, I think that
> would make the most sense.
> 
> Importing XML data into Excel should be simple, although I must

Excellent

> confess that I never touch Excel.
>  
> > Looking forward to migrate to hobbit when it releases.
> 
> It's getting closer.
> 
> 
> Henrik
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