Nick Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 09/01/2005 03:18:39 PM: > > > --- "J.R. Bullington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Automatically populate?? > > > > Not that _I_ know of, but of course there are those > > on this list that know > > much more than I. > > > > I do know that you can export the values into tab > > delimited format and then > > import it into Excel. > > > > I think that you may want to do this via ASP or PHP. > > It would make life a > > lot easier. > > > > J.R. > > PHP would definitely be the way to go on this. I'm > working on a web application running on our AS/400 > here running Apache, PHP, and MySQL to automate our > schedule forms that we fill out daily around here. > Everything I've got so far is running through > PHP/MySQL so if I can find a way to do this in PHP I'm > definitely going to try. I'll google around for awhile > and see what I come up with. MS Knowledge Base has > proven to be less than useful so far in my endeavor. > > Also, thanks to James for his suggestion on using the > ODBC query directly from Excel. This will get us > started for the time being, and give me some leeway so > I can work on doing this in PHP. > > Thanks to you both! > -Nick >
The ODBC query is SO simple and flexible once you get through the darn wizard just once. I think it will save you a lot of headaches in the long run. Another alternative is to run your query through the MySQL client with the HTML output flag turned on and Tee your output to some temp file. Excel (at least the modern versions) are HTML aware and will convert the <TABLE>, <TR>, <TD>, etc. tags into cells automagically. Another alternative: I have also changed the Screen Buffer settings of my CMD window so that it no longer wraps at 80 columns. I tend to use something like 1024 x 2048 but it can get much bigger if you need it to. It allows me to catch a whole lot of CLI output before I hit the limits of the buffer. Highlight and copy your query results into Word and replace all | characters with tabs. I had to use Word as you can't enter the tab character into the "replace with" field in Notepad. -OR- paste into Notepad and save it off as a temp file. Then import that temp file into Excel as | delimited data. Of course if your actual data contains the | character, some of your rows will be wider by a column or two.... However, the easiest is still the Import External Data wizard via ODBC. If you stick with the PHP solution, remember that Excel will process any tab-delimited file into columns and rows as well as it can do anything else. If you are really gonzo, you can actually produce a fully formatted sheet so long as you conform to the HTML+XML format that Excel uses when you click "Save as HTML". That save format IS thoroughly documented in the KB (I know I found it recently). Options. Way too many options.... ;-D Shawn Green Database Administrator Unimin Corporation - Spruce Pine
