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Thursday, October 2, 2008

Exporting Currency from SmartList to Excel

We received a simple request for a smart user - who was having trouble when Excel sheets were exported from SmartList. It exported the currency along with the values, and it would take him time to clean it up to do totals.

There is an old setting in in dex.ini ExplorerFormatCurrency, which controls if currency amounts are exported as text or numbers.

Making ExplorerFormatCurrency=FALSE ensures that foreign currency is exported as easy to use numbers.

I am not sure if this is still supported, but it is definitely pretty useful.

Yesterday, I found that if you use ExplorerFormatCurrency=FALSE, Analytical Accounting SmartList's export 0 amounts to excel. It shows data in the SmartList, but exports all zeroes to Excel. Turning off the ExplorerFormatCurrency fixes this problem.

1 comment:

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