Overview

This module enables you to export and import configured Excel Exporter templates. This enables you to share templates and saves time by not having to recreate the same templates in different environments.

Documentation

Description

This module enables you to export and import configured Excel Exporter templates. This enables you to share templates en saves time by not having to recreate the same templates for different environments.

You can use the test functionality to compare an exported and imported template with the original. This functionality will compare both templates to see if they are equal.

Please contact me when an imported template is not equal to the original.

Typical usage scenario

Export and import Excel Exporter templates.

Features and limitations

• Export Excel Exporter templates
• Import Excel Exporter templates

Dependencies

• Mendix 9.24.5 and above
• Excel exporter, with its dependency
• MxModelReflection module

Tested with Excel exporter 7.2.0 and Model reflection 6.2.0

Installation

1. While installing the Excel Exporter module, you've added the Excel_Document_Overview page to your navigation. Create a new page, add that to you navigation instead of  Excel_Document_Overview and add the Excel_Document_Overview snippet from the _USE_ME folder to that page. This snippet basically is a copy of the original Excel_Document_Overview page with the addition of Export, Import and Test buttons.
2. Add the ExcelExporterTemplateManager.Configurator module role to an appropriate system role.

Configuration

No configuration needed

Known bugs

#47615 - White space is trimmed when importing data from XML (Fixed in Mx 7.1)

When you have whitespace at the begin or end of an element in the exported XML file, that whitespace will be trimmed by the platform.