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Export to excel question??

Last post 03-26-2008 08:46 AM by Clay Fox. 3 replies.
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  • 03-21-2008 11:55 AM

    Export to excel question??

    When I do an export to excel all my fields show this fieldname (my:MFF/my:fieldname)

     

    Any clue???????????????????

  • 03-21-2008 01:16 PM In reply to

    Re: Export to excel question??

    Can you give some more details, attach a screen shot or something?

    This is an export to excel within InfoPath, where it will convert the view to a spreadsheet? Or is this some excel view in SharePoint?

    What are you hoping to accomplish?

  • 03-26-2008 08:17 AM In reply to

    Re: Export to excel question??

    Yes where it will convert to a spreadsheet view.

  • 03-26-2008 08:46 AM In reply to

    Re: Export to excel question??

    Your images do not show up. It may be better to attach them in the options tab.

     Export to Excel does not have a lot of practical uses. Since it requires a manual export by the user, typically you also need to switch to a view that shows the data you need, and there is no control over the data layout or format in Excel.

    You can show some data in a repeating table within InfoPath which resembles a spreadsheet but if you really want to be able to get the form data into Excel then you need a backend data repository both InfoPath and Excel share.

    InfoPath information is saved in it, across all forms, and then a spreadsheet is created which permanently links to the database and displays the information in real-time.

    That makes the InfoPath users and the Excel users very happy and they can share the data and play nicely together.

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