Thanks for your Inputs Ben. Can you share the code please?
Thanks
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From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of btallman
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 8:11 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: New technique to Export to Excel,
feasible?
What I do for Excel export is all handled on the server side. In
my
case I am using php for the backend, so I use a library call
PHPExcel to
build the spreadsheet and then I either attach it to an email,
or pass
it back to the browser. There are good libraries available for
most
backend languages (I have used Java, Python and .Net versions),
so that
puts you back in the religious wars...
I have also done the formatting in the Flex App and passed the
complete
text of an Excel 2003 file to the app server to have it turned
around
and sent back in a new window. That is the same basic idea as
putting
it in to the clipboard, but a bit more transparent to the user.
In any
case, I prefer formatting the data on the app server, not the
client for
excel and I get the added benefit of being able to send reports
by email
as excel attachments.
If anyone wants the code, I'd be happy to give it away...
Thanks,
Ben
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<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , Tom Chiverton
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> On Wednesday 30 Jan 2008, Johannes Nel wrote:
> > just create a csv file, you are making it way more complex
than
needed
>
> Unless he needs the things you can't get in CSV like style
information,
> formula etc.
>
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