Exporting to XLS broken

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mlpotgieter Posted: 3 May 2012 1:46 AM

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When exporting Investigative or Presentation reports to XLS, bandwidth and hits are in cells formatted as text. This means XLS formulas do not recognize them as numbers. To fix this one has to manually remove the "'" from the beginning of the number in each cell. One could probably use a formula or a few other ways to do this aswell but the point of exporting to XLS is to be able to manipulate the numbers and this seems to defeat that.

This has been broken for years but we are now in the process of importing monthly Websense reports into an custom reporting system and this just adds a step that should not be there in my opinion.

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WJ.Oliver replied on 15 May 2012 2:02 AM

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Thank you for inquiring about a new feature in Websense Web Security. Your request (FR201205-4644) has been entered into our Feature Request tracking system, and our Product Management team will review it within the next 30 days. If you need a response sooner, we recommend that you open a case with Technical Support. When the request is reviewed, the product manager will decide whether to accept this for future consideration or ask for more information. Please note that Websense receives a high volume of feature requests, and as such Websense cannot include all of these requests in the next product release. That said, the product team is constantly revisiting the list of requests to determine the features that have been most frequently requested, so that the highest priority features are addressed. We look forward to your continued participation in the Websense community and welcome your active involvement in our product direction.

Thank you