Re: Specifying Excel Data Types in CFCONTENT?

2011-08-03 Thread Feras Nabulsi
Thanks for the info, now that the project is not hold anymore, I will do this. I've used the POIUtility long ago, I'll check it out again. so I can't develop for 9 strictly yet. As an alternative, try the POIUtility.cfc. Like cfspreadsheet it generates a true Excel file. IIRC it should

Re: Specifying Excel Data Types in CFCONTENT?

2011-06-29 Thread Feras Nabulsi
Thanks Azadi, I know there are some additional features for the recent versions. I am using CF9 on my Dev by still CF7 on Production, so I can't develop for 9 strictly yet. Thanks for your help no, there isn't. cfcontent basically just tells the browser which mime type the content being

Re: Specifying Excel Data Types in CFCONTENT?

2011-06-29 Thread Leigh
so I can't develop for 9 strictly yet. As an alternative, try the POIUtility.cfc. Like cfspreadsheet it generates a true Excel file. IIRC it should work on MX7 too. If you prefer to stick with pseudo-excel files (ie html) there are a lot of old css tricks floating around. Do a search on

Specifying Excel Data Types in CFCONTENT?

2011-06-28 Thread Feras Nabulsi
Hello, I am using CFContent to create an excel spreadsheet. The type of data is different, some are currency and some are integers, ...etc. Each of these fields once put into Excel should be specified in order to properly format the spreadsheet. Is there a way to specify a data type for

Re: Specifying Excel Data Types in CFCONTENT?

2011-06-28 Thread Azadi Saryev
no, there isn't. cfcontent basically just tells the browser which mime type the content being delivered is to help the browser figure out how to display it. if you are on a recent cf version, check out cfspreadsheet group of tags and related functions. Azadi On 28/06/2011 23:26 , Feras