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designer — Excel export design pass

Date: 2026-08-27 · Task: review the ticket Excel export (column sizes, colours, styling).

Before

utils/excel.utils.ts had a bare schema — no widths, no header styling, no alignment, raw SNOW timestamps, no number formatting. Functional but ugly.

After (FORGE-branded, token-derived colours)

• Header row: indigo #6366F1 (--primary) background, white bold centred text, row height 22, frozen (stickyRowsCount: 1) so it stays visible when scrolling.
• Column widths tuned per field: Number 15, State 20, Assignee/Requester 22, Short description 46 + wrap, Group 30, Brand/Market 14, Lifetime/In-state 12, Last activity 14, Jira 14, Jira key 12, Cost 11, Ccy 7, PO 15, Link 34.
• Alignment: numeric columns (Lifetime, In state, Cost) right-aligned; dates + Ccy centred; text left. All vertically centred.
• Number format: Cost #,##0 (thousands separators).
• Dates: Last activity rendered as a short local date (25 Aug 26) instead of the raw 2026-08-25 12:00:00 SNOW timestamp.
• Grid: thin light-grey borders #E2E8F0 (--border) on every cell.
• Font: Calibri 11 (header) / 10 (body).
• Columns reordered so the human-readable ones (desc, brand, market, requester) sit before the group/analytics fields.

Evidence

• client tsc --noEmit → clean; vite build → OK.
• Node render (write-excel-file/node, all style options): produced a valid "Microsoft Excel 2007+" file (PK/zip header, 4 KB) — every styling option accepted, no throw.

Next: done — export honours the FORGE palette + is readable. (Excel colour-coding by

state/size intentionally skipped to keep it clean; can add if wanted.)