Data driven approach - Excel limitations
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Issue/Introduction
Limitations of Storing Large Response in Excel for Data Driven services.
Environment
All supported DevTest versions
Cause
When storing the response in the excel, we have a limitation that a cell can hold 30k characters only. So, the response xml if exceeding this limit (it always or mostly do) cannot be stored in a single cell and responded. It's tough to split xmls to fit in to each cell when it's huge. Has CA thought of an alternative around it? It makes this feature unusable!!
Resolution
we don't have anything to control EXCEL in DEVTEST. This is a Microsoft limitation.
Here is the link to EXCEL limitation :
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Excel-specifications-and-limits-1672b34d-7043-467e-8e27-269d656771c3
Microsoft says 32,767 is the maximum size of a cell
You can switch to a database table instead of using EXCEL.
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