PageHeader contains a Text field using PageExec, not exporting to Excel

[Will]

Stand Alone Q2 2016

We need to include a value from the first data set record in the page header of reports.  In other report writers (Crystal) you siply put the field into the header and the value in the first record shows up file.

In Telerik it looks like we need to use pageExec and reference a scope.  I am using the following expression in a text field in the header and it is showing up in the report fine.  The scope "ReportHeaderName" is the label of another text field located in the table that is in our detail section. 

[=pageExec("ReportHeaderName",first(Fields.ReportHeaderName))]

The problem I am having is that the field does not get exported to Excel. 

How do I resolve the problem?

[Will]

More information...

Exporting to PDF includes the field just fine.

[Will]

More information...   Exporting to PDF works just fine for this header field.

[Katia]

Hello Will,

I believe it is the same question that you asked in the ticket #1033333, you can check the reply to the mentioned ticket.

For anyone who's interested, the described behavior is logged in our systems a bug in the exporting mechanism of the HTML5 Report Viewer. When a report is exported to Excel formats from the viewer the result of PageExec function is not displayed.
This issue was logged in our system for further investigation and improvement.

In the meantime, please consider exporting to other formats (page-oriented) if your scenario is similar.

Regards,
Katia
Telerik

[Stephen]

was this ever fixed? i'm having the same problem when rendering the report in my action from within my controller.

[Neli]

Hello Stephen,

The priority of the bug is increased. You can check for the updates in our Feedback portal- PageExec is not calculated correctly in Excel renderings.

Regards,
Neli
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