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export excel to file

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Sri Thirumalai asked on August 27, 2025

Hello,

   I am using Selenium webdriver to automate emailing of excel reports to clients. The javascript exports the excel report to File and so the excel file gets stored in file system. This works fine for simple reports whereas for crosstab, the report does not finish loading when called thru selenium. Do you have any ideas of why this might happen?

Thanks

Sri

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Solomiia Andrusiv Solomiia Andrusiv Flexmonster August 28, 2025

Hello, Sri!

Thank you for your question.
Our team suggests the following steps that may help troubleshoot the issue:

  • Since Selenium emulates a web browser, as a first step, we suggest exporting the reports manually in a real browser to check if the issue is caused by Flexmonster. If Flexmonster finishes exporting into Excel files correctly in a real browser, we recommend reviewing the Selenium setup as a next step.
  • Check the developer console for potential error messages.
  • Instead of saving the Excel file directly in the file system, try using the exportTo() API callback to extract the exported data and then customize it. For that, set the destination: "plain" in exportTo() API call as shown in the following example: https://jsfiddle.net/flexmonster/y68mrsvd.
    Here are the docs for reference: https://www.flexmonster.com/api/exportto/#destinationtype.

Hope you will find our answer helpful.

Kind regards,
Solomiia

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Solomiia Andrusiv Solomiia Andrusiv Flexmonster September 10, 2025

Hello, Sri!

Hope you are doing well.

Our team is wondering if you had some time to check out our previous letter about exporting Flexmonster reports for automated emailing. Could you please let us know if the suggested approach with using exportTo() API call and customize data in the callback works for your case?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,
Solomiia

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Solomiia Andrusiv Solomiia Andrusiv Flexmonster 3 days ago

Hello, Sri!

Hope you are having a great week.

Just checking in to ask if the suggested approach with using exportTo() API call and customize data in the callback works well for exporting Flexmonster reports for automated emailing.

Looking forward to hearing your feedback.

Kind regards,
Solomiia

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