"DBA72" <DBA72@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I want to add an export option for the report dropdown menus that will
>allow
> users to export reports to tab delimited files. This will allow them to
> open
> up the data of a report directly in excel.
>
> Does anyone know if this can be done?

"Wayne Snyder" wrote:

> First you can render a report in Excel already using one of the rendering
> extensions... You may have the report rendered in excel immediately by
> calling the report from a URL passing the rendering extention , or having a
> user subscribe to the report in Excel.
>
> However if you really wish to, you may write a new rendering extension which
> renders a tab delimited report, and load it into reporting services, and
> modify some config files... This is documented in books on line... look for
> rendering extensions..
>
>
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> "DBA72" <DBA72@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A5CBA5C7-9FA1-40A1-8132-45DC9E838D60@microsoft.com...
> >I want to add an export option for the report dropdown menus that will
> >allow
> > users to export reports to tab delimited files. This will allow them to
> > open
> > up the data of a report directly in excel.
> >
> > Does anyone know if this can be done?
>
>