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Support XLSX template in BI Publisher to go further than 65k row limitation

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Amaury Blanc
Amaury Blanc Rank 2 - Community Beginner
edited May 9, 2025 5:29PM in Oracle Analytics Publisher Idea Lab

Use Case and Business Need

Hello,

XLS template only support 65000 row of data, we need you to implement xlsx template to go further than the 65k row limitation

thanks

Original Idea Number: 153c64487e

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  • User_7LRY9
    User_7LRY9 Rank 2 - Community Beginner

    As a workaround, I've used a Layout Editor (.xpt) or RTF template and then enabled the Excel xlsx output type.  This removes the 65k row limit of the older version of Excel template.  However, BIP being able to accommodate the xlsx as a template type would be nice so the additional features of Excel can be utilized within the template as well.

  • inge niesink
    inge niesink Rank 1 - Community Starter

    it would be very helpful if we can open reports in xlsx.

  • User_Z2DOB
    User_Z2DOB Rank 1 - Community Starter

    this would indeed be helpfull

  • Nikol Pietersen
    Nikol Pietersen Rank 1 - Community Starter

    Gives us the opportunity to run certain report for a whole month in one report which is now not possible.

    This is an terrible situation. We choose Oracle as the application because it promissed to be the best solution for our large range number of transactions.
    How the report output is not able to handle these large numbers ......

  • Bejoylin
    Bejoylin Rank 1 - Community Starter

    Fusion cannot remain in excel 2003 forever. I hope MS retire excel 2003!!

  • Randall E
    Randall E Rank 1 - Community Starter

    As a consultant for multiple large enterprises (over 100k employees), the ability to create BI reports with more than 65k row output is critical. Still relying on 2003 software with such limitations in 2022 does not give a good impression. We have more than 15 custom reports for Compensation reporting and have had to create workarounds to adapt to the growing volume of data, since the OOTB xls template does not meet our needs.

  • Saadiq
    Saadiq Rank 1 - Community Starter

    There is a option at report

    level which will move the rows more than 65k to next sheet without header.

    Nav: Report -->properties -->Formatting -->Excel Template (set Enable Scalable Mode to true)

  • User_XVB8S
    User_XVB8S Rank 1 - Community Starter
    edited Sep 22, 2023 10:54AM

    There is another way, which is a bit of a hack. Create an xlsx template in the normal way, rename this to xls and import into your report. This fools Publisher into thinking is has the 93-2007 style Excel.

    When you download and open the generated xls, you will get a warning that the format does not match the extension, but now you can get reports containing up to 1,048,576 rows.

  • User_LD6AV
    User_LD6AV Rank 1 - Community Starter

    This issue has been known for many years now. Is it possible to advise if any development work being undertaken to support .xlsx templates at all?

  • MandeepGupta
    MandeepGupta Rank 8 - Analytics Strategist

    Upvoted.. It will really help !!!