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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Cognos Analytics
Components Reporting
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 27, 2025

We should be able to get layout calculations in excel data format

The requirement is to download the tabular data in 'Excel Data' format with Layout Calculation to the report with either expression ReportDate() or AsOfTime()
in the footer. When we try to download report in excel data any layout calculation or single ton with current time doesn't appear in output. We can't download report in excel as that will download some of the prompts we have used in report page design

Needed By Week
  • Guest
    Sep 18, 2025

    Thank you for submitting this enhancement request. We appreciate your feedback.

    The Excel Data, CSV, and XML formats are intended for raw data export, and as such, they do not preserve layout-based calculations or formatting from the report. If you need calculations to appear in these output formats, they must be defined within the query itself, rather than relying on layout based calculations.