Hi Lars, 

Since most people would export to excel and excel in turn would ignore the 
space hence making it "no separator" option as you mentioned, I would suggest 
that the comma be used as it quickly gives the number scale at a glance. 

But whichever way, the majority carries the vote I guess. 

RegardsOn 4 May 2016 8:56 am, Lars Helge Ă˜verland <l...@dhis2.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> many thanks for all the feedback. Will make this configurable per system then 
> given the all the various opinions.
>
>
> Another point of clarification: It seems that space is a preferred separator 
> in the Web based pivot table. However, when downloading to Excel, it seems 
> space is useless as it makes Excel interpret the cell as text, not numbers.
>
> So as a short term solution (which could be back-ported) could be that when 
> downloading to Excel, the system could fall back to no separator when space 
> is selected as separator. This because space never seems useful for Excel 
> spreadsheets.
>
> Would that work?
>
>
> regards,
>
> Lars
>
>
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>
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>
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