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Comment: DEV-5545 comment 1: clarified viewing the Excel template

By the end of this section you will be able to associate an Excel template with a view.

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  1. Open the model Dashboards and Forms 01-08: Views, filters and dashboards.
  2. Click on the icon for the Overall Debt Levels stream to open its configuration form.
  3. In the Views section, click on Overall Debt Levels. This opens the stream view configuration form.
  4. In the Advanced section, in the Excel Template box, enter debtOverview.xls and press Image Added.
  5. Press Image Removed
  6. Open the template you just used. The template itself is stored on the PhixFlow server but you can have a copy is available in input directory you downloaded, under ...\excelTemplates.Review the template.
  7. You will need to unhide the first sheet to see it.
  8. The first worksheet is called Basic Data. It is blank because PhixFlow always writes exported data to the first worksheet.
  9. In this example, you can find formatted cells on the worksheet called Formatted Data. You can use data from the first sheet across any number of sheets - this is purely down to what is achievable in Excellook at copy.
    1. Download  train.zip and extract the contents to a folder on your computer (indicated as <path> in the following instructions).
    2. Open <path>\train\excelTemplates\debtOverview.xls. The file opens with one worksheet, called Formatted Data, which shows how the data will be formatted.
    3. If the file is protected, enable editing.
    4. There is a another, hidden worksheet. To view it, right-click on Formatted Data and select Unhide.
    5. The Excel file now has a tab called Basic Data. This worksheet is blank ready for PhixFlow to populate it with data. Once the first sheet is populated, you can use the data in other sheets.

      Info

      When PhixFlow exports data to Excel, it always writes the data to the first worksheet.


  10. Open the view Overall Debt Levels and export the data to Excel.
  11. You will see the exported data from PhixFlow in the first worksheet and the formatted output on the second worksheet.