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Down Loading MLS reports/transactional detail into Excel

6 postsstarted by Jeraldostvig 1,238 viewsoriginal topic

Jeraldostvig
New Member
#1
Hello All,

I am a new Stake Financial Clerk and I cannot find in MLS how to download reports and data to an Excel worksheet rather that just pdf files?

Thank you!

Jerald
kellymab
Member
#2
Exports were removed earlier this summer. The functionality is not expected to return.
russellhltn
Community Administrator
#3
kellymab wrote:Exports were removed earlier this summer. The functionality is not expected to return.
That was for membership. I don't think there has ever been financial exports.
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lajackson
Community Moderators
#4
Jeraldostvig wrote:I cannot find in MLS how to download reports and data to an Excel worksheet rather that just pdf files?
It has been many years since we were able to download MLS financial data into a worksheet, sorry.
Jeraldostvig
New Member
#5
Thanks everyone for your replies. Does anyone know why that functionality would not be available?

I have been a financial analyst for 18 years, worked for many companies and never before encountered a financial reporting system that did not have an excel download functon.
aebrown
Community Administrator
#6
Jeraldostvig wrote:Thanks everyone for your replies. Does anyone know why that functionality would not be available?

I have been a financial analyst for 18 years, worked for many companies and never before encountered a financial reporting system that did not have an excel download functon.
I'm sure that the limitation on exporting financial data is related to concerns about privacy and security. Once data can be downloaded from a secure system, it is much easier for it to proliferate to non-secure systems. I'm not saying that there are no other security holes, but those in charge of setting financial record policies clearly are concerned about the holes related to downloaded data.
Questions that can benefit the larger community should be asked in a public forum, not a private message.