CSV Export error

Hi,

After exporting a report to CSV format, when opening the file in Excel, all the data in a row comes into a single column, than spliting into different columns.

We can split into different columns using 'Text to columns' option from 'Data' Menu, but does not do defaultly as a CSV file is supposed to do.

Is this is bug with Reporting Service? Or am i missing something?

I am using release version of MS Reporting Service 2005.

Thanks,

Anobe

I experienced this problem too. The default setting is unicode, you have to specify ASCII for csv rendering. We were able to fix it by changing the config file.

File to change:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\Reporting Services\ReportServer\rsreportserver.config

Before:

<Extension Name="CSV" Type="Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.CsvRenderer.CsvReport,Microsoft.ReportingServices.CsvRendering"/>

After:

<Extension Name="CSV" Type="Microsoft.ReportingServices.Rendering.CsvRenderer.CsvReport,Microsoft.ReportingServices.CsvRendering">

<Configuration>

<DeviceInfo>

<Encoding>ASCII</Encoding>

</DeviceInfo>

</Configuration>

</Extension>

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Thanks buddy,

this was very helpful. I didn't do the exact way, since i cannot change the config file. So, i handled the situation in the code using System.Text.UniEncoding.

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hi anobe....

i am facing the same situation like u...i cant change the config file. so i am wondering how did u handled the situation

using the system.text.uniencoding ? could you please elobrate further

thanks bro

|||In case you didn't get your problem solved (or for others out there with the same problem):

I was having this problem too and changing the encoding of the report to ASCII (default is UTF8 I think) fixed the problem.

I am calling my report through the url, you can pass the encoding as a url parameter, for example:
http://reportservername/ReportServer/report?rs:Command=Render&rs:Format=CSV&rc:Encoding=ASCII