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Re: Generating reports in excel?
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Re: Generating reports in excel?


  • Subject: Re: Generating reports in excel?
  • From: Jake Macmullin <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 08:13:03 +1100

Owen,

1) Do you copy and paste the whole XML file or just the table part ? i.e. do you include things like the DocumentProperties and Styles ? I assume so.

Yep, the whole XML file.

2) What version of WO are you using ? Because when I open the file up in WOBuilder my rows and columns are all hidden in single HTML style table cell so I can't ( unless I do it in the text ) change my place holder values with dynamic ones as you suggest in step 3 below. Is if the case that you need to add your WO tages by hand ?

Sorry, I should have been clear on this - you need to do this in source view. You might find it easiest to set up the bindings in the WYSIWYG mode using WOBuilder - then switch to source view and replace the HTML with the Excel XML (making sure you put the WebObject tags in the right spot).



Cheers,

Jake



On 16/03/2006, at 9:06 AM, Jake Macmullin wrote:

Now that Excel has an XML file format - I've found this to be straight-forward.

1). Create an excel spreadsheet that looks the way you want, with place-holders for the values you want to dynamically generate and save it as XML.

2). Create a new WOComponent and replace the contents of the .html file with the XML from your excel template

3). Insert the appropriate WebObject tags where you want to generate content

I can't remember if you need to specify a different mime-type via a response.setHeader call in the Java file - but this approach has worked well for me.

Details about the xml file formats for excel and the other office products can be found at:
http://www.microsoft.com/office/xml/default.mspx


Regards,

Jake MacMullin


On 15/03/2006, at 5:10 AM, Zac Konopa wrote:

I'm working on a project where we need to generate a report in an Excel format. Has anyone done this before and do you have any tips and tricks?

Thx

Zac
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