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Paginated Report - Export to CSV with out quotes

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S V on 12 Jan 2022 18:11:00

Paginated Report - Export to CSV with out quotes


Allow settings or a way to export the paginated report without quotes.


Reproduce steps:

  1. This is my requirement, may be different or not suite for all
  2. A report with only one table and one column
  3. Export as csv
  4. By default
  5. it will export as without (double) quotes when the data does NOT have comma i.e., in the one column
  6. it will export as with (double) quotes when the data does comma i.e., in the one column
  7. If the data in a table column has a comma or other special characters, csv download is adding the double quotes. This is default behavior. I do NOT want double quotes.


It is a variation of export of the CSV


On-premise SSRS/PBIRS servers can be customized

  • Ref: By design
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/report-builder/exporting-to-a-csv-file-report-builder-and-ssrs?view=sql-server-ver15
  • Ref: Customize
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/customize-rendering-extension-parameters-in-rsreportserver-config?view=sql-server-ver15
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/reporting-services/csv-device-information-settings?view=sql-server-ver15
  • Ref: Similar issue
  • https://stackoverflow.com/questions/59667551/ssrs-adding-extra-characters-when-exporting-to-csv


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Timothy Millard on 21 Oct 2022 19:32:22

RE: Paginated Report - Export to CSV with out quotes

Most other report tools that I have worked with allow the user to specify the qualifier string. What I don't understand is if the qualifier string is " for a text value, why does it not add it in for all text values? It either shows nothing when exporting to a CSV file, or it qualifies the " with ". That makes absolutely no sense. Why would you quality just the " and not the rest of the text in the field?