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General vs. Text formatting for SmartList exports to Excel

Posted on by Microsoft Employee

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Our team has put the ExplorerFormatCurrency=FALSE and SmarlistEnhancedExcelExport=TRUE INI settings in place for GP 2013 due to having currency export issues and decimal places being too long respectively.

Current Problem

Our A/R team runs SmartList to export statements to Excel that are uploaded to a customer portal showing their open invoices. In doing so they are prompted with an error in the “supplier invoice no” column. The initial format in this column was text. When they change the format of that column to general, they can upload it.

Last week one member uploaded 150 invoices. The customer informed her she uploaded the wrong PO #. She checked thru the Excel file and the format of the PO# column is also text, but she wasn’t prompted with any error when uploading like the one she got on the supplier invoice no issue. She re-uploaded some invoices after changing the format of the PO # to general and it works fine.

Question

Can you change the format in GP to “general” instead of using “text” for particular fields?

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    Community Member Microsoft Employee on at
    RE: General vs. Text formatting for SmartList exports to Excel

    Thanks Kirk.  I think we'll be able to use the macro functionality for other tasks as well.  This is a great help and we appreciate it.

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    KirkLivermont Profile Picture
    KirkLivermont 5,985 on at
    RE: General vs. Text formatting for SmartList exports to Excel

    Hi Brad,

    You might want to consider making a export solution for this smartlist that applies the necessary formatting with an excel macro. Or if you have access to Smartlist Builder you could probably make a refreshable excel report with the necessary formatting.

    Creating Export Solutions www.rosebizinc.com/.../smartlist-export-solutions-in-dynamics.html

    Kirk

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