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  • Nathan Skidmore 63 posts 251 karma points c-trib
    Oct 21, 2015 @ 13:52
    Nathan Skidmore
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    Umbraco Forms Export to Excel displays & instead of & character

    Hi,

    I have created a form in Umbraco Forms (Contour) where within one of the fields I am storing a URL with querystring parameters.

    The entry data is displayed correctly in the backoffice (URL is valid) and this is also the case in a HTML Export. However in an Excel export, the URL is changed and the & symbol is converted to &

    Therefore when clicking this link in Excel, the URL doesn't work correctly as the querystring is not recognized.

    The database value is stored as &, the HTML markup on the HTML Export also displays as & when inspected. Therefore the export to Excel process must be encoding the & symbol to &.

    Does anyone know how I can override this or know of anything else I can do to resolve the issue?

    Thanks in advance.

    Nathan

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  • Sunnefa 22 posts 41 karma points
    Nov 25, 2015 @ 10:22
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    I'm having the same problem. Does anyone know the answer to this? This is really troublesome for us since we have a language with a lot of accented letters and they all get turned to their respective HTML entities when exporting, either to HTML or Excel.

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  • Dennis Aaen 4500 posts 18255 karma points admin hq c-trib
    Nov 25, 2015 @ 10:53
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    Hi Sunnefa,

    Perhaps you could try to use the workaround that is provided in this issue http://issues.umbraco.org/issue/CON-815

    Hope this helps,

    /Dennis

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  • Nathan Skidmore 63 posts 251 karma points c-trib
    Nov 25, 2015 @ 11:48
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    Hi Sunnefa,

    Based on Dennis' tip I have managed to fix my issue. I edited the Views/Partials/Forms/Export/csv.cshtml file to decode the HTML. I changed the following code

    @Html.Raw(col).ToString().Replace(Environment.NewLine, " ")

    to

    @Html.Raw(HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(col.ToString().Replace(Environment.NewLine, " ")))

    You should be able to apply the same logic to the html export.

    Thanks,

    Nathan

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