Take a look at the Apache POI utility. There are some CF wrappers for it, I believe, and it is also what Adobe is using under the covers for its cfspreadsheet tag.
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 2:34 AM, marc -- <m...@marcbakker.com> wrote: > > Hi > On the server (CF 8.0) I have an Excel .xls file. It is a simple file > containing text and formatting (no macros etc). What I want to do is to read > it, replace a few placeholders (<date>,<username>)in cells with their actual > values (the current date and name of logged in user) and stream the modified > file to the client. > I did this before with an .rtf file and that worked fine but excel is > different since it is not text. > Has anybody tips on how to accomplish this? > > Thanks, > > Marc > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:324694 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
