How To Remove The Generated Date-Timestamp From Downloaded OpenAir Reports

Did you know you could remove the ‘Generated’ date-timestamp from downloaded OpenAir reports?

NetSuite OpenAir reporting is capable of quite a bit of reporting but there are plenty of occasions where people just want to download information into Excel for pivot table use during data analysis. By default, report downloads in NetSuite OpenAir have 2 additional rows at the bottom of the downloaded data – a blank row and a message stating ‘Generated on: ’ where date and time is the date and time you ran the report.

If you forget to delete this last line, any pivot table or sorting you perform may pick this lineup and cause a bit of confusion in your overall result.

You can have this generated message removed automatically from data downloads by contacting NetSuite OpenAir Support and having the internal switch enabled to ‘disable date and timestamps on reports’. This is a global option, however, so consider carefully if others are using this information for reference such as comparing month to month snapshots downloaded and saved. The blank line at the bottom of the data still remains. This tends to have less impact on sorting and pivot tables.