hpcc-systems/HPCC-Platform — Issue #1271: xls link on Results Tab seems to have a limit for what can be sent to Excel
Author: lorraineachapman
Created: 2012-01-17 14:53:36+00:00
State: open

I don't know whether this behaviour is normal (I haven't actually seen this message before), but if there is a limit then what is it and shouldn't the system handle it better than returning this to the browser:

Exception(s) occured:
Reporter: WsWorkunits::WURESULTBIN()
Code	Message
20064	2012-01-16 18:32:13 GMT: The data set is too big to be converted to an Excel file. Please use the gzip link to download a compressed XML data file.

It took a while to return this, displaying a blank browser screen for some time.

The WU I was looking at, was generated using the certification scripts we supply, specifically this one: BuilDataFiles. I'm using this build on Ubuntu: community_3.4.2-2rc.