# Perspective Table excel report

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [March 3, 2023, 6:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/perspective-table-excel-report/70598 "2023-03-03T18:27:29Z")\
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I get an error on the line that calls the `toExcel()` function:

```auto
Error running action 'component.onActionPerformed' on DataSetPlayGround@C/root/Button: Traceback (most recent call last): File "<function:runAction>", line 13, in runAction TypeError: can't convert [9, u'Test'] to com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.Dataset

```

The data type from the DB is an `nvarchar`. Is there a simple way to strip the unicode character `u` off the string?

Thanks

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