[Solved] Export to Excel not working with ClientGroupFooterTemplate and data variable

[Noah]

I have a column in an MVC grid with grouped data defined like this...

columns.Bound(m => m.Location).ClientGroupFooterTemplate("#= data.parent().value #");

This causes the excel export feature to fail.  It works with the standard aggregate values like 'sum' but if any of the columns have a group footer template that references the 'data' variable it causes the excel export to fail.

[Noah]

I got the latest internal build and now it doesn't crash and the excel file is created.  The only problem is now the Group footers are including the HTML from their client templates.  Is there a good workaround to get non-html content in those group footers during the excel export?

[Atanas Korchev]

Hi Noah,

Indeed this was an issue that we addressed with the latest internal build.

To avoid seeing the HTML in the Excel you need to write some code. This demo shows how: http://docs.telerik.com/kendo-ui/web/grid/how-to/excel/footer-alignment

Regards,
Atanas Korchev
Telerik