I have a few users who when exporting a JIRA Filter receive a blank export in Excel. However, when myself and a few other users export to Excel it works fine with data and all. The major difference I am noticing is that the users that are not able to get any data on the export are using Excel version 16.0.4405.1000; while the users that are able to export data correctly are using Excel version 16.0.4390.1000. My main concern that the Excel update was pushed across company wide and that this issue may affect everyone shortly. Is there a work around for this that any on is aware or a way to resolve? Any help is greatly appreciated.
I was able to resolve this. With the Excel update it does an auto default on a setting that prevents the data from exporting. Do the following to resolve this:
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Thank you! Disabling Protected View allowed me to open the exported JIRA search results in Excel 2016 / Office 365. Before I disabled it, Excel wasn't even giving an error. It just looked like the file wouldn't open.
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JIRA Cloud (OnDemand) has recently made this unnecessary by now providing a CSV export, which works for Excel 2010 without disabling the protected view.
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thank you Bryan!
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We appear to have had some success by setting our JIRA URL as a trusted site in Internet Explorer.
Steps:
You can configure the above changes with Group Policy (which we did - search for "Site to Zone Assignment List" to see how to do this). Please note that we found that some machines had to be restarted for the fix to take effect even after Group Policy had been updated by issuing a gpupdate command.
Another workaround appears to be to "unblock" the file. It will then open as normal.
Steps:
We found that after making the changes to the settings in Internet Explorer that the Excel files downloaded from JIRA did not get the "blocked" status (presumably as they're from a trusted zone).
Hope this helps someone else.
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Thanks! Adding our JIRA instance to Trusted Sites via Group Policy is definitely preferable to disabling Protected View.
Also note that you will need to re-export any excel doc after the Trusted Site is added.
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You may want to replace the built-in Excel exporter with the Better Excel Plugin, that produces actual XLSX files, not an HTML file that is named as .xls.
Using Excel's native fileformat is a major difference with several advantages, and will never confuse Excel.
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Got the same issue with Excel 2010. This Micorsoft Security Update seems to have broken excel opening the export: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3115322
Renaming the .XLS file .HTML allows it to be opened in a web browser.
Rasied this issue with Atlassian: https://support.atlassian.com/servicedesk/customer/portal/22/JSP-271208
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Thank you for the info Tom. Hopefully this gets resolved quickly so my operators can combine our filters in one Excel doc. I will have them try the file extension rename.
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Hi Tom,
Thanks for reporting this to atlassian. Unfortunately i can't access this support issue. Is there a public issue available where this problem is being handled?
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Hi Tom,
Thanks for all of the information you have provided on this problem and raising an issue with Atlassian. As Benny stated, I am not able to access this support issue either and was wondering the same question if a public issue is available or is there a way to gain access to the ticket you created?
Thanks.
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Atlassian ticket:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-61891
They intend to fix this in JIRA 7.2 by replacing the Export to Excel feature by Export to CSV.
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Thanks for noting that! Great choice for handling this better, I think.
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I found that I needed to change the settings in Excel : Trust Center : File Block Settings to allow Open and Save for Excel 97* / 95* workbooks which allows selected files of this type to be opened in Protected View.
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Same problem here: Exporting JIRA filter results to an Excel (97-2003 .xls) file worked fine for opening in Excel 2010 until July 13th, when it started opening as blank.
Following up on the .XLS to .HTML renaming workaround: Opening the .HTML spreadsheet in Internet Explorer (e.g., IE-11), then right-clicking > "Export to Microsoft Excel" worked for opening the spreadsheet in Excel 2010 with the data.
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