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How to export Excel file from Power BI report server using URL
No, there are no changes to server settings required. Did you use the url format from the documentation link?
eg.
https://<server>/ReportServer?/<reportfolder>/<reportname>&rs:Format=PDF
Note that you need to use the Webservice url (/reportserver by default), not the portal url (/reports by default)
Hi Guy,
I discovered that if I used rs:format parameter to export as Excel file, the file format is different from the one that I selected from menu bar. Did anybody have idea, please help?
Regards,
Jimmy
Anonymous wrote:I discovered that if I used rs:format parameter to export as Excel file, the file format is different from the one that I selected from menu bar. Did anybody have idea, please help?
What sort of differences are you seeing? There is only one Excel rendering engine in the product, in theory the menu bar option is just calling in to the rs:format=Excel url endpoint.
When I export the file with rs:format=EXCEL parameter, the file extension is '.xls'. However, if I export using menu bar, the file extension is '.xlsx'. Although they still can be opened by MS Excel program, I want to know if there is a possible solution to export in '.xlsx' by either way
Anonymous wrote:
When I export the file with rs:format=EXCEL parameter, the file extension is '.xls'. However, if I export using menu bar, the file extension is '.xlsx'. Although they still can be opened by MS Excel program, I want to know if there is a possible solution to export in '.xlsx' by either way
Ooh that's really bad. There is an option missing from the documentation for rs:Format=EXCELOPENXML which is what you need to use to generate XLSX files. This should fix your issue and I've left a comment on the documentation page so hopefully microsoft fix this omission.