Monday, November 12, 2012

Export to MS Excel Issue from OBIEE (> 16 digit number))

I was having this issue for a long time now and luckily found a trick in OTN to overcome this.

When you have a column with more than 16 digit number in your OBIEE 10g report and if you export the report to excel, MS Excel converts the number to an exponential value.

eg: 1234E67898765432 to 123 E+79

This can be avoided by following suggestion provided by Satya in OTN forum below.

https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2382153

There are other ways to fix these numbers but I think this is the best option as it would not require Users to go through the process of converting.

Hope it helps.


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