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Dear Essential Team,
the Lauchpad Export generates a broken Excel File.
Steps to reproduce:
1) install Essential Standalone 6.21
2) open Essential baseline 6.21 model
3) import lauchpad_loader.dup
4) upload repository to "http://localhost:8080/essential_viewer"
5) navigate to Lauchpad Exporter
6) Export empty XLSX or Export XLSX.
7) Open downloaded file in MS Excel.

Copilot delivers the following analysis:
Here’s an automated inspection of your XLSX file’s structure:
Inspection Report

Is valid ZIP archive: Yes, your file is a valid ZIP archive.

Expected Items Found:

[Content_Types].xml: Found
_rels/: Found
xl/: Found
xl/workbook.xml: Found
xl/worksheets/: Missing
xl/styles.xml: Found
xl/sharedStrings.xml: Missing

Unexpected Items:

docProps/
docProps/app.xml
docProps/core.xml


Analysis

The file is structurally a ZIP archive, which is correct for XLSX.
However, key components are missing:

xl/worksheets/ (should contain the actual worksheet data)
xl/sharedStrings.xml (needed if your workbook contains text)


The presence of docProps/ and its files is normal, but the missing worksheet folder is a critical issue.

Thanks for raising, we'll take a look

Hi,

Did you select the sheets you want to export first? Select for example Business Capabilities, Apps, etc then export Blank file? If you don't select a sheet first it exports an empty file missing the required folders

We need to make it clearer that the user needs to do this, and add some guard code. If you did select a sheet then there is another issue

Thanks

John

Hi John,
i clicked in various ways on the selection right for the views or on the selection left for the objects / slots.
In any case, it does not generate an Excel-Sheet at all.
In the new version of the standalone and baseline repo the launchpad exporter is disabled and i enabled it first.
Holger

I re-checked with Viewer 6.21.1 and it it working now fine. Thanks for the fast fix.
Holger