Murex has many browse screens: trade query, accounting journal, payment query, etc… And associated with these screens comes the question: how do I get that information outside Murex?

There are multiple ways of doing it but there is a first question to answer: what do you need it for?

Exporting a browse screen on a regular basis

If you indeed after a browse screen exported on a regular basis, a report is probably the better solution for you. You have multiple options:

• Rebuilding the browse in a viewer and making a dynamic table on it (I would not recommend that solution expect if you have another use for the viewer).
• Re-selecting the fields you need from a standard TRNRP_PL (or whichever appropriate) dynamic table. This is good if you’re after some calculated fields which are not always available in the browse directly (How many times did I get the request to have PL figures along with the trade query)
• Building the report using a copy creation of the table your browse is based on. It might not work in every case but for trade query it does work fine. Just reselect the fields you need from the table and/or the related tables and you’re all set

Reports can be automated during EOD and produce data automatically.

Exporting a browse screen on an adhoc basis

This one is probably where I can help you most.

There are 2 main ways of doing it. The first one is to use the classic windows shortcuts: Ctrl-A (select All), Ctrl-C (Copy) and then Ctrl-v (Paste) into excel/word. Good old classic. Never disappoints and always work.

The classic way is great especially if you have a limited amount of data to copy. It gets trickier when you start to have multiple pages (usually more than 300 lines). More Murex proficient people will tell you to use Ctrl-Shift-C and voila, all columns copied regardless of the number of pages. While it does work, be very careful.
One evening, I was leaving a customer site a bit late and could see someone still at his desk. That person needed to export that data and used Ctrl-Shift-C and the pop up window Copying was still there. The problem of Ctrl-Shift-C is that it loads all the data from the server to your computer clipboard. If the amount of data is too large for your memory, the java process might run out of memory and while you believe something is still happening, it is in complete limbo. And you don’t want to waste your evening because of that!

So here’s the better solution when the amount of data is large: File-Export… The export data lets you export all data to a file (on your computer). You can choose to export all pages and it will do it by itself leaving you with a csv file in your client directory.

Somehow, while this function is much more reliable than Ctrl-Shift-C, it is quite unknown. Maybe because nowadays everyone copies/pastes everything!