Bug 355095 - crosstab empty cell data type
Summary: crosstab empty cell data type
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: z_Archived
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: BIRT (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Birt-Data-inbox@eclipse.org CLA
QA Contact: Maggie Shen CLA
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Reported: 2011-08-18 11:03 EDT by Amr CLA
Modified: 2011-12-29 17:05 EST (History)
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Description Amr CLA 2011-08-18 11:03:53 EDT 
Build Identifier: 3.7

In cross tab you can add string in the empty cells that's great but when you are working with other data types such as numbers your number is still is treated as string so when exporting the report to excel the number appears as text and gives an error so adding feature that enables the user to add the data type will be good idea

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 Lin Zhu CLA 2011-12-29 17:05:50 EST 
Hi There,

By "add a string in the empty cell" do you mean use the label report item? If you are using "data" report item and set the data type to int/double etc you can find that the exported excel is correct.

Thanks.
Lin