its working now , the problem is i didnt add a response header : response.headers['Content-Type']='application/vnd.ms-excel'
regards, On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Hassan Alnatour < [email protected]> wrote: > Dear ALL, > > I have this code for my CMS , am trying to make a button that downloads a > csv file for the table auth_event , i did this : > > def UserEvents(): > import cStringIO > file = cStringIO.StringIO() > db(db.auth_event.id >0).select(orderby=~db.auth_event.id > ).export_to_csv_file(file) > return file.getvalue() > > But i dont understand why is it opening the csv in the browser and now > download it , its a file !!! any help > > > Regards, > > -- > > > > --
