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Exporting a tab delimited inventory search

  • November 19, 2007
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Hello * I am using the new Casper Suite 5.1 and attempting to export a tab delimited text file after doing an inventory search in the JSS. The original search is viewed as a Standard Web Page. After my results are displayed, I select "Tab" from the drop down View Results As: menu on the bottom. When I click the Go button, it opens a new window in Safari with the text instead of downloading the file. I'm sure there is an easy solution for this but I can't seem to find it. In the old Casper Suite 3.2, I used to be able to option-click on the link to download the text file. Anyone know how to do this?

Thanks,
Betty Prystal
Star Tribune

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    talkingmoose
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    • talkingmoose
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    • November 19, 2007

    Hi Betty!

    Right-click the link and download the text file to your Desktop. I think
    that works for any of the delimited file links.

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    bill

    William M. Smith, Technical Analyst
    Digital Information Systems Support
    Merrill Communications, LLC
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    • ernstcs
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    • November 20, 2007

    Hi Betty,

    I'm not really sure there is a way like it use to be. Both Safari (3.0) and FireFox just open the page instead of prompting as a download as a regular text file.

    FireFox seems to handle this better when the text file is displayed in the browser. You can just select 'File -> Save Page As' and it at least understands that you want to save it as a text file. Safari wants to append some dumb extension.

    I don't think there is another way around it.

    Craig Ernst
    Systems Management & Configuration
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    • Anonymous
    • November 20, 2007

    All,

    Option-click the link. That will download the tab'd file. Then open excel, go to Import, go through the wizard.

    Alternatively, ctrl-click, and open with Numbers. Both options should give you a managable file.

    -Jesse Wolcott
    -Ease Technologies, Inc.

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