Create an excel with two columns

[Miriam Zaragoz1]

Hello,

I have created a Record producer to generate an excell. Currently the excell is created without problem but I have all the data in the same column and I would like it to be created in two separate columns.

The code used to create the excell is:

var attachment = new Attachment();
var fileName = 'Accounts for ' + cs_user.user.name + '.csv';
var content_type = 'text/csv';
var fileBytes = 'Name,Number\n';

                    ...

    var trans_name = gr.name.split(' ');
    if (trans_name[1] == '' || trans_name[1] === undefined) {
        var trans_name2 = trans_name[0];
        if (array_accounts.indexOf(trans_name2) < 0) {
            array_accounts.push(trans_name2);
            array_count.push(1);
        } else {
            array_count[array_accounts.indexOf(trans_name2)] += 1;
        }
    } else {
        var trans_name2 = trans_name[0] + ' ' + trans_name[1];
        if (array_accounts.indexOf(trans_name2) < 0) {
            array_accounts.push(trans_name2);
            array_count.push(1);
        } else {
            array_count[array_accounts.indexOf(trans_name2)] += 1;
        }
    }

}

for (var i = 0; i < array_accounts.length; i++) {
    fileBytes += array_accounts[i] + ',' + array_count[i] + '\n';
}
//Attachment attached
var attach_url = attachment.write('sys_user_grmember', cs_user.sys_id, fileName, content_type, fileBytes);

I think that the key is fileBytes but I dont know how to do it. Anyone can help me?

Thanks.

[Martin iTSM]

Hey Miriam,

how do you open the file?
You cannot just double click a .csv and load it into excel. You can - but it won`t format it correctly that way.

You have to open an (empty) excel sheet and go to > Data > From text/csv 
From there one you can do different settings before the import/load i.e. which character is used to separate the individual chunks of data etc.

The .csv should look roughly like this:

Name, Number
Martin, 1
Paul, 2
Bert, 3

Then the above described procedure should work just fine.

Hope this helps!

Cheers!

Martin