Hi all, I've opened two PRs adding a new screenxlsx view-handler type that produces genuine binary .xlsx workbooks via Apache POI: https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-framework/pull/1899 for the core mechanism, and https://github.com/apache/ofbiz-plugins/pull/395 wiring it into the example plugin's demo screens alongside a couple of new UI entry points. Both PRs are purely additive and don't touch any existing behavior, tracked as OFBIZ-13567.
The motivation is that the existing screenxls view-handler type doesn't actually produce a real Excel file: its FreeMarker macros just emit a plain HTML table, and it only opens in Excel because Excel is lenient about mismatched file extensions and content types, while tools like LibreOffice and Google Sheets are far less forgiving. The new screenxlsx handler builds a real OOXML workbook directly from the same widget form/grid data, with typed cells for currency and date fields, and has been verified end-to-end against a running instance producing files that open cleanly everywhere. This makes screenxls obsolete. If there are no objections, I'll file a follow-up ticket to remove it once OFBIZ-13567 lands. Reviews and feedback on the PRs are very welcome. Thanks, Mridul Pathak
