topic Re: Number format setting 'Expression Default' and Excel export in QlikView

Number format setting 'Expression Default' and Excel export

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 14:30:27 GMT

Hello all, in a function in a QV application is use the number format 'expression default' in the expression is set the different formats on base of the dimension elements and the num function. This looks like this.

If          ( DimX='1',
          Num(
          $(vFunc1),
          '#.##0,0%')
          ,
If          ( DimX='2',
          Num(
          $(vFunc2)
          ,
          '#.##0,0%')
          ,
If      (DimX='3',
          Num(
          $(vFunc3)
          )
          , 
          '#.##0')
)))

When I use the excel export, it gives the figures as a text field and it rounds the figures. When u use the other formats, other than 'expression default' it exports good. It is also going wrong when exporting from the web front-end (IE-Plugin, ajax not tested), then it's exporting the figure without any format

Excel export from desktop application:

the first two as text and the last one is good

Excel export from web front-end:

the first two without any format and the last one good.

Has anyone seen and solved this before? Can you help me please, thanx in advance!

Number format setting 'Expression Default' and Excel export

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:11:54 GMT

Anyone an idea about this problem?

Number format setting 'Expression Default' and Excel export

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:19:43 GMT

Hi,

Could you please attach the File with some sample data.

Thanks,

Lavanya

Re: Number format setting 'Expression Default' and Excel export

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 06:41:02 GMT

An example!

Re: Number format setting 'Expression Default' and Excel export

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:11:14 GMT

anyone any idea?

Number format setting 'Expression Default' and Excel export

Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:13:28 GMT

Re: Number format setting 'Expression Default' and Excel export

dwh1104 — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:38:09 GMT

I am also having the same issue as we recently upgraded to QV10 SR3. My table exported as expected in QV9 SR7. So, there is definitely something that changed between the two versions.

Re: Number format setting 'Expression Default' and Excel export

peter_turner — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 10:20:12 GMT

Hello,

It sounds like you've found one of the changes between v9 and v10, thedefault excel format is now Text.

To work around this you can wrap your numeric expressions/fields in the num(), they will then export to excel as numeric values.

From the V10 SR3 release notes:

The default export format when exporting to Excel is now always text. Ifyou

experience that exports from your application has changed, then you need tochange

the format of those columns to some appropriate numeric format.

Re: Number format setting 'Expression Default' and Excel export

dwh1104 — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:41:33 GMT

Wrapping the numeric expressions/fields in num() does not work when you have mixed expression number formats and use the "Send to Excel" option. However, it does work when you use the "Copy to Clipboard", ... "Full Table". Then paste it in Excel.

I have created buttons with macros for my end users that do the copy/paste and adjust column/row widths of the cells in Excel where I am using tables with mixed formats. It is one click for the end user and they really like that option.

I was hoping that this was a bug and QlikTech would correct this issue going forward. I am trying to eliminate as many macros as possible, but with this issue, I don't see how to avoid it.

Thanks,

Dan

Number format setting 'Expression Default' and Excel export

picturebox — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:20:00 GMT

Working in 9SR6 and 7 I have found that exporting to Excel depends very much on the version of not only Excel but also of windows. E.g. Exporting "2011/10" (calendar week 10 of year 2011) it is a string not a date function I get differing results:

- W7 Ultimate to Office 2010 - the entire column comes out clean "as is seen in QV"

- XP to Office 2003 - the column has a mixed status of "as seen in QV" and the number in time format 40nnn. Have not found a way of controlling that.

- W7 professional to Office 2003 or 2010 often also a mixed salad.

No amount of formatting in Excel sets this correctly.

Maybe these things are related?

Petra

Re: Number format setting 'Expression Default' and Excel export

dwh1104 — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:24:33 GMT

There might be a relation, but when we were on QV9 SR7, there were no issues at all with the Excel export. Now that we are on QV10 SR3, this is where we encountered the problem.

Re: Number format setting 'Expression Default' and Excel export

Fri, 06 Jan 2012 17:24:38 GMT

Thank you Dan for the information.

This change in QlikView 10 (exporting as text) has caused a lot of grief at our company as we are transistioning from 8.5 to 10.