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Michael Simon
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We're finding out that WF doesn't save the output as a "XLS" file but in an XML format. I think it's an Open Office format can't be sure. Is there a way to export the "Excel" format? What would the output format code be? Is there a way for IBI to compress the XML format before sending it through the wire?


Have used WF 5.x, 7.x w/RC, BID, MR
WAS 5.x/6.x
AIX 5.3.0
 
Posts: 29 | Location: Wine Country | Registered: October 10, 2006Report This Post
dhagen
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When your output format is "EXL2K", then the response is an XHT file. It's a fancy pants XML format for Office. If you change your output format to "EXCEL", then you would actually get an XLS file. However, you would lose a lot of the formatting options that you get with the EXL2K output.

There is a compression option between the WF Client and Server (via the client admin console), but I do not know what has to be done to implement properly (you should probably call NY on that one). Worse case scenario is you could implement your own compression routine using a Filter pattern to wrap the response object.


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Michael Simon
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Thanks for the quick feedback.


Have used WF 5.x, 7.x w/RC, BID, MR
WAS 5.x/6.x
AIX 5.3.0
 
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