PDF and XLSX Exports That Keep Their Citations
Rexfin's exported workbooks carry review status and source scope with them, so a downloaded file never claims more certainty than the model actually has.
By The Rexfin team
Export a model to PDF or XLSX from most tools and you get a snapshot: numbers formatted nicely, with no trace of where they came from or how confident anyone should be in them. Open the file six weeks later and there’s no way to tell if a figure was final or still pending review when it went out. Rexfin’s exports are built to carry that context with them, not lose it the moment the file leaves the browser.
The caveat travels with the number
If a source document behind a model is still pending review (someone uploaded a filing but hasn’t signed off on the extraction yet), Rexfin doesn’t let exports quietly treat that figure as final. Every export format is capped at the same status: allowed with a caveat. The XLSX workbook says so, the PPTX deck says so, and the board pack cover says so, driven by the same underlying flag, so the download dialog and the actual file agree with each other. Nobody sees “ready to export” in the interface and then opens a document that reads as fully verified.
That caveat is written in full, not truncated. A cover page that clips a warning partway through and drops the part that says what’s actually unverified is worse than no warning at all, so the layout wraps the whole message rather than cutting it off.
What an XLSX export actually contains
A Rexfin workbook is a multi-sheet export, not one flat table. The cash sheet, for example, ships alongside the other statement sheets and is labeled for what it is (a 13-week cash view marked advisory where the underlying data warrants it) rather than presented with the same confidence as a fully reconciled annual statement. The same source-linked figures that back the on-screen model back the exported cells; the export isn’t a separate, less-accountable copy of the numbers.
Exports only ever contain your own numbers
Because Rexfin is multi-tenant, an export also has to answer a boring but critical question: whose figures are in this file? Every export route checks that the model being exported actually belongs to the requesting workspace before it will produce a workbook, deck, or pack. A workspace can’t accidentally, or otherwise, generate an export containing another tenant’s cached figures. The same discipline applies to auditor share links: a link is pinned to the workspace that created it at the moment of creation, and an anonymous viewer opening that link only ever sees that workspace’s documents and figures, never whatever else happens to be sitting in the ambient session.
Why this matters more than it sounds like it should
Exports are where a model leaves the system it was built and checked in. Once a number is sitting in an XLSX cell or a PDF page, most tools have no way to say whether it was final, provisional, or borrowed from someone else’s workspace. Carrying that status into the file itself, rather than trusting whoever opens it to remember the context, is what makes a Rexfin export usable as evidence later, not just a nicely formatted snapshot.
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