Good to see a follow-up blog entry. FYI, JIRA supports XMLRPC and it can be extended as well using the RPC endpoint module I mentioned to you earlier — see “rpc-soap” and “rpc-xmlrpc” module descriptor.

But anyway, you did address one of the problems of the Excel export, which is tracked at JRA-8426:

* http://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-8426

And here’s a little trick I always do to convert the XML excel to “real” excel /csv when I’m on Linux/OpenOffice.org:

1. Export issues to Excel in issue navigator
2. Open exported Excel using OpenOffice.org
3. Create a new spreadsheet
4. Copy cells from exported Excel to new spreadsheet

yc