All you need is a text area that is big enough to take the data. I would use Ajax to upload the data to the server, or use Javascript on the client to validate the data which should be faster.
Your business partners pattern is nice if you have the excel sheet open, as the user only has to copy and paste between the two. On the other pattern if you have to do a file upload the user has to :- 1. Save the excel file 2. Go to the browser. 3. Click upload. 4. Remember where they have saved the file 5. Browse to where the file is 6. Click upload. 7. Server validates. User could easily make mistakes with the above in forgetting to save the excel file. Forgetting where it is. On the other hand your business partners pattern is :- 1. Go to the browser. 2. user copies data 3. pastes it 4. Server validates. Nice and simple. This could be enhanced by the browser parcing the data using javascript on the client. And placing the data into a columns of a table on the page. So to give the user instant feedback. All is the quite easy in Javascript now. All the best James http://blog.feralabs.com <http://blog.feralabs.com> 2009/12/10 Krang <jo...@industrialwisdom.com> > We're wrestling with a similar issue on a current project. The > closest thing we've found to a Web-based Excel data entry grid is > Telerik's RadGrid for ASP.NET Ajax: > > http://www.telerik.com/products/aspnet-ajax/grid.aspx > > You can tab through the grid and manually type in data, but I'm not > aware of any way to cut and paste multiple rows from Excel, > unfortunately. > > > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . > Posted from the new ixda.org > http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=47894 > > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
