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Links in large lists broken when exporting to Excel using Cognos Analytics

Troubleshooting


Problem

When exporting report to Excel, hyperlinks in large lists do not export successfully and message is displayed:
We found a problem with some content in 'content'. Do you want us to try to recover as much as we can? If you trust the source of this workbook, click Yes.
When selecting Yes, report opens in Excel but hyperlinks do not work

Cause

Diagnosing The Problem

Hyperlinks are valid after manually correcting them.

Resolving The Problem

Refer to the following Microsoft article for information:

Hyperlinks are removed or invalid after you sort cells that contain these hyperlinks in Excel

To help avoid this issue in Cognos Analytics the following parameter can be implemented to display all rows on a single Excel sheet.

RSVP.EXCEL.EXCEL_2007_WORKSHEET_MAXIMUM_ROWS

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Document Information

Modified date:
05 January 2022

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