Hey guys:
We are porting most of our computers over to windows 7 in the coming year and we seem to be running into a problem with the excel format feature and windows 7. WF exports into excel in a .xmh format and, initially, Win 7 doesn't know what to do with this file extension.

Once you associate it with excel however it works fine so it really isn't a problem, I was just curious if anyone else has come across this issue before.

Thanks.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Tim P.,

We have recently moved into a Win7 environment (recent = 1.5 years) and we aren't having any issues with this.

What back-end are you using for web? Ours is tomcat-IIS on a Win2008 server. We are also on 7.7.04 now.

Which excel format are you exporting to?
We continue to use the older Excel 2003 format since it is most portable. We hope to have all of our user base on Office 2010 by EOY2013.

I believe we have a similar set up with tomcat but i'm not sure what server we have (they don't let me near the shiny red buttons).

We export to EXL2k format and we really haven't had a problem. There just happened to be two cases come in at once regarding the topic. I believe we just have to get the computer configuration team to add that extension as an excel extension from the start and it should be ok. Once you associate it with it, it run just fine.

Once we start getting more people ported over, i'll update the post.

It's possible that tomcat sends the wrong MIME-type for those documents. That may be worth investigating.

We had a similar problem for newer Office 2010 documents (that were stored in a DB and retrieved with WF) and it turned out that Tomcat(5.5) was missing the MIME-type definitions for those file types - no wonder, when Tomcat 5.5 was released, Office 2010 (or 2007) didn't exist yet!