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Title: Excel format of report not opening
Post by: sspk on 15 May 2008 02:25:25 PM
HI All,
I am  developing a report in query studio and trying to run it , it run's very well in html and pdf but when i am trying to run the report in any of the excel formats or csv format, it starts running the report and all of a sudden the window closes.
I checked the  KB#1015618.1 , KB #1014647, and even checked the internet options  and ensure that no popup blockers preventing cognos connection.But nothing is working out.any suggestions will help me a lot.
Thanks......... ???
Title: Re: Excel format of report not opening
Post by: bonniehsueh on 25 Jun 2008 07:59:22 PM
I've seen something simliar happen where they would get a error message every time they downloaded to excel from Cognos Connection. In addition to changing settings in the KB articles you mentioned, we deinstalled all toolbars (ie yahoo toolbar, google toolbar) as even though you may disable the pop up blockers in the toolbars they occasionally still interfere. The person was also on IE6, so we upgraded them to IE7.
Title: Re: Excel format of report not opening
Post by: rockytopmark on 27 Jun 2008 09:15:13 AM
Not a Pop-Up blocker issue.  Change your IE security settings.  What those setting are exactly, I do not know, but if you lower your security setting to medium-low, it wil no longer be an issue.

As a work-around, press the ctrl key as the page begins to load the excel format
Title: Re: Excel format of report not opening
Post by: tkunkler on 24 Sep 2009 10:44:45 AM
In IE under Tools -> Security -> Internet -> Custom Level, changing Automatic prompting for file downloads from Disable to Enable worked for me.