Problems Exporting FRx to Excel?

Lately I’ve seen FRx having a problem exporting to Excel. Ugly errors and the report won’t export. The problem may lie with the latest version, 6.7.9111. I have a workaround for you though: take the spaces out of the filename output in the output options. So in the screenshot below, “TESTING EXPORT.XLS” would become “TESTING_EXPORT.XLS”.

One way to resolve errors exporting from Excel to FRx

You can check your FRx version by going to Help About.

8 Comments on "Problems Exporting FRx to Excel?"

  1. Bud Cool, HDA Inc. said,
    Tuesday, March 11, 2008 at 4:21 pm

    We have similar problems trying to export to Excel. Your workaround is on the right track, because the problem occurs when there are spaces in the path to the .xls file. Unfortunately, in our case, there are spaces in the folder(s) where FRx is installed. So, just changing the name of the output file doesn’t help us.

    The good news is that the file is actually created in the IO_Data folder – it’s just that Excel can’t “automatically” open it after it’s been exported. Annoying, but we can live with it until it’s fixed.

  2. Wednesday, March 12, 2008 at 10:21 am

    I wouldn’t hold my breath on this getting fixed any time soon. I’ll see some FRx technical folks today and will ask. Meanwhile, I bet you could just change your default import export path in company information to a path that doesn’t have a space in it. Jan

  3. Tuesday, March 18, 2008 at 6:33 pm

    So I’ll eat my words about not holding your breath. Good news. This is due to be fixed in Service Pack 10, which last week was due out ‘any minute’. Jan

  4. Wednesday, November 4, 2009 at 3:28 pm

    We also experienced problem exporting to Excel. When using output format “Excel (XLS,XLSX)”, it works, but when using “Formatted Excel (XLS, XLSX)” it doesn’t, any idea? And what’s difference between these 2 output options?

  5. Geoff said,
    Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 5:59 pm

    Hi,

    I have a client with issues downloading into excel pivot tables from the Drilldown viewer.

    They are set up with program files (including excel 2007) on drive c:\ and data (including user profiles) on drive D:\. When they try to export to pivot tables they get a message that excel is not installed on drive D:\ and the export fails.

    Their policy is not to install programs on data drives.

    Any ideas on how to fix this?

    Regards,

    Geoff

  6. Leslie said,
    Friday, February 26, 2010 at 4:09 pm

    I am having a problem with the export of Financial and Transaction… I added a column for TAPL and ORMNSTRN and they do not export to Excel . I am on service pack 11 and tried to use a directory without any spaces as well as a excel file without any spaces and still not working. Has anyone had any issues like this? Thanks

  7. Leslie said,
    Friday, February 26, 2010 at 4:10 pm

    Sorry forgot to mention that when I view it in Drilldown viewer it has the columns there.

  8. Padma said,
    Monday, July 12, 2010 at 12:58 pm

    I have the same problem. I can view the transaction detail in the drill down viewer. But when I exported the report to Excel, the details disappears. I tried to process the report as an Excel file. It did not work then either. The probelm started when the new verson is installed

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