+1 Kind Regards, Chandan Khandelwal
On Wed, Sep 9, 2026 at 11:18 AM Ashish Vijaywargiya < [email protected]> wrote: > +1 > > -- > Kind Regards, > Ashish Vijaywargiya > Vice President of Operations > *HotWax Systems* > *Enterprise open source experts* > http://www.hotwaxsystems.com > > > > On Tue, Sep 8, 2026 at 6:35 PM Mridul Pathak <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I've opened two PRs adding a new screenxlsx view-handler type that > produces > > genuine binary .xlsx workbooks via Apache POI: > > https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-framework/pull/1899 for the core > > mechanism, > > and https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-plugins/pull/395 wiring it into the > > example plugin's demo screens alongside a couple of new UI entry points. > > Both PRs are purely additive and don't touch any existing behavior, > tracked > > as OFBIZ-13567. > > > > The motivation is that the existing screenxls view-handler type doesn't > > actually produce a real Excel file: its FreeMarker macros just emit a > plain > > HTML table, and it only opens in Excel because Excel is lenient about > > mismatched file extensions and content types, while tools like > LibreOffice > > and Google Sheets are far less forgiving. The new screenxlsx handler > builds > > a real OOXML workbook directly from the same widget form/grid data, with > > typed cells for currency and date fields, and has been verified > end-to-end > > against a running instance producing files that open cleanly everywhere. > > > > This makes screenxls obsolete. If there are no objections, I'll file a > > follow-up ticket to remove it once OFBIZ-13567 lands. > > > > Reviews and feedback on the PRs are very welcome. > > > > Thanks, > > Mridul Pathak > > >
