Export Cgridview to CSV

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I am trying to export cgridview data (current search results) to a CSV by using the excelview extension, by clicking a button.

However, I am not getting the filtered data in my CSV; instead, I’m getting all the records in the model.

This is my controller action I am calling:


  ]public function actionExcel()

	{

		$model = new PackagingMetric('search'); 

		$this->widget('application.extensions.EExcelView', array( 

                'dataProvider'=> $model->search(), 

                'grid_mode'=>'export', 

				'filter'=>$model, 

                'exportType'=>'Excel5', 

                'filename'=>'report_work', 

                )); 

	}[/

I’ve been told I need to retrieve my POST search attributes as follows, but I just receive a "Undefined Index: PackagingMetric " error with the following:


public function actionExcel()

	{

		$model = new PackagingMetric('search'); 

		//$model->attributes = $_POST['PackagingMetric'];  

		$this->widget('application.extensions.EExcelView', array( 

                'dataProvider'=> $model->search(), 

                'grid_mode'=>'export', 

				'filter'=>$model, 

                'exportType'=>'Excel5', 

                'filename'=>'report_work', 

                )); 

	}

Anybody have any ideas?