Export as CSV with alternative delimiter e.g. semicolon

[Grant]

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• Is it possible to set this as a global preference for all users?

Yes! We have a guide on creating a set of default user preferences for all users within a given collection/discipline/institution:

Setting Default User Preferences

[User Preferences] In Specify 7.7.0, the User Preferences menu was introduced! This menu enables users to customize various preferences such as appearance, behavior, home page, navigation menu, interactions, forms, collection chooser, attachments, tree editor, query builder, record merging, reports and labels, WorkBench, app resources, and GeoMap. Setting custom default preferences for both new and existing users can be a great idea! Defaults can be set for each collection, discipline, or in…

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• Is it possible to set the encoding of the export file?

At this time, no. As @markp mentioned, when using Excel it is important to use their “Get Data” system rather than opening the CSV directly. I have written feature requests to make it so Excel can immediately detect the encoding (Add UTF-8 BOM to CSV exports for Excel users · Issue #2959 · specify/specify7 · GitHub) but it would not be needed if Microsoft added proper encoding detection to Excel.