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Excel Tools: Export CDT to Excel smart service can't be found under Integration Services > Excel Tools

edmund.loh

I have downloaded and deployed the latest version of the plugin (2.0.2) and found that I am unable to select the Export CDT to Excel smart service. The icon seems to be missing from the palette. Switching back to version 2.0.0 brings it back again.

Has anyone else encountered this issue with 2.0.2 and was able to resolve it?

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    Certified Lead Developer
    I'm still waiting to hear some sort of official word from Appian as to why this deprecation was done in spite of the massive need that still exists out there to have it available. To reiterate, at least 2 of my projects will be massively inconvenienced by this since the alternative solutions do not cover all use cases.
  • 0 in reply to Mike Schmitt
    Hi Mike, have you heard back from Appian on what they are planning on doing with the CDT To Excel plugin?
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    Certified Lead Developer
     in reply to erickp

    I as well as some other users have left comments on the Excel Tools AppMarket page, but have gotten no meaningful response other than "use this other functionality [even though it doesn't really work that way]".  Appian's only official response is, "it's a plug-in and therefore not officially supported".

  • 0 in reply to Mike Schmitt
    Interesting. I have a use case where I need to generate group membership data in an Excel report for the audit department. What I am doing in production is creating a list of CDTs that contains users and their group application roles and using the CDT To Excel to convert the data into Excel. I had the need for another business case to store the group membership information in a database table twice a day so because of the deprecation of the CDT To Excel plugin, I will have to pull the data from the database with the risk the data will not be up-to-date (only twice a day).
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