CHAPTER 10

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Secure Export to CSV

Consider this: when you enable export to CSV on an APEX report, you’re allowing any user to export all rows of any report with a single click. Think about that for a second. Enabling this feature may make users’ lives extremely convenient and solve a lot of their problems. But the security implications of enabling it are massive and definitely outweigh any convenience that it brings.

This chapter will start by discussing options in APEX that can be configured to control some aspects of the report exports that APEX provides. It will also introduce a more secure method for allowing users to export report data to ...

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