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We are trying to automate the process of CR/CN daily reports to download to a network folder. Is there any way – Windchill can automatically download as an excel report of a custom report from query builder ?
Hey Venkata - how are you?
One approach to this - which we used extensively at Alcon and now starting to do similar at Edwards - is to set up Excel with the results of running the report once (e.g. nice column formatting, charts, pivot tables, etc.etc.then configure Excel to actually generate the report - which has the effect of simply refreshing the data. Works very nicely. I did a PTC conference presentation on this once.
Users love it - they simple click a link within the spreadsheet to get latest data at any time - with no needed formatting or other work after.
Here is one link on PTC: https://support.ptc.com/appserver/cs/view/solution.jsp?n=CS162869&art_lang=en&posno=1&q=report%20from%20excel&ProductFamily=Windchill%7CWPA&source=search