[Casper] Exporting a tab delimited inventory search

[Jesse Wolcott]

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.

On Nov 19, 2007, at 9:51 PM, Ernst, Craig S. wrote:

> 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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>
>
>
> On 11/19/07 4:09 PM, "Betty Prystal" <bprystal at startribune.com> wrote:
>
> 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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