Download content with Links

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I have a report with URL link values.
When downloading this into excel the link is not clickable, any idea how to handle this?
Thanks

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Hey @barak1

You are expecting a results table when downloaded to excel to be clickable as well, similar to the screenshot below?

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This will not be possible I am afraid as this is being rendered on the front end and not part of the downloaded data. That would have to be a separate dimension to be queried, so that it ends up in the excel file.

Best

MArc

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Hi,
I know that the link parameter can’t be exported to Excel.
But I thought that a value of ‘https://www.google.com’ will be clickable on excel.

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Gotcha.

I just tried downloading a CSV and opened it in Google Sheets, works as expected:

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Unfortunately, cant test it with MS Excel

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Thanks, I tried opening it with Libre Office while my teammate tried MS Excel.
On Google Sheets the links didn’t appeared, I guess I should keep it as CSV and not XSLX.
Thanks

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Glad its sorted. Enjoy!