This section reviews formatting issues that occur in Export for Excel.
Structural differences are discrepancies between the existing Excel report and the current model data within Contributor that will be used to refresh the report. If the two structures are different, a message will appear notifying you of the difference and ask you whether or not you want to resolve the difference.
If you choose:
Yes, a missing item is inserted into the worksheet or an unknown item is removed from the worksheet.
No, the difference is maintained in the worksheet.
Cancel, aborts the refresh operation.
Laminations are two or more dimensions merged into one axis (row or column). You can use laminations to reduce the number of pages in your report by moving page dimensions to either rows or columns.
When the header cells of laminated dimensions are merged, the repeated sequential header names are shown in merged cells rather than repeated in each unmerged cell. See example below.
Merged | Not Merged | |||
Y | A | Y | ||
B | X | B | X | |
Y |