Brett, The most common mistake that people tend to make, and I am hoping this is not something that you are doing. Is that ColdFusion can't load the spreadsheet with whatever means you are trying, unless you close the spreadhseet in Excel.
By the sounds of it this might be what is happening. Regards, Andrew Scott http://www.andyscott.id.au/ > -----Original Message----- > From: cfaussie@googlegroups.com [mailto:cfaus...@googlegroups.com] On > Behalf Of Brett Payne-Rhodes > Sent: Sunday, 25 July 2010 2:50 PM > To: cfaussie@googlegroups.com > Subject: [cfaussie] Read an Excel spreadsheet... > > Hi, > > I'm looking at the options to read an excel spreadsheet and despite all the > good stuff I have found from people like Ben Nadal and Charlie Arehart > nothing seems to want to work 'as advertised'. I headed down the path of > using Java and the POI library via Ben's POIutility.cfc but couldn't get it to read > the file - dunno why, it was a weird java error. I then tried CFXL by Jason > Delmore and while I can get that to read the demo excel file it won't read the > one I need it to read. > > I know there are a few more options but I was just wondering if anyone here > had done this before and could let me know what worked for them... > > Many thanks, > > Brett > B) > > -- > Brett Payne-Rhodes > YourSite Web Solutions > w: http://www.yoursite.net.au > e: br...@ehc.net.au > t: +61 (0)8 9371-0471 > m: +61 (0)414 371 047 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaus...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en.
