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Creating And Streaming Simple Microsoft Excel Files With Cold. Fusion. I was demonstrating to a co- worker the other day how you can easily create Microsoft Excel data files and stream them to the browser as an attachment that the end user can then open (in Excel) or save to the file system. This blew his mind, so I thought I would share it here as well. You don't need Java objects (ex. JExcel) or COM objects if you want to create simple Excel files. This technique uses basic HTML and just requests that it be interpreted by Microsoft Excel, not the user's browser. This does NOT create a full- fledged Excel document.
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When you open this document in Excel you will see that it does not have a proper grid. However, if you copy and paste the Excel data into a new Excel sheet, it works flawlessly.
I was demonstrating to a co-worker the other day how you can easily create Microsoft Excel data files and stream them to the browser as an attachment that the end.
For basic file creation, I consider this is to be completely acceptable (and so do all of my clients). To create the Excel file all you have to do is create a basic HTML page that caters to the Excel application way of doing things (such as using PT instead of PX for font sized, border widths, padding, etc) and then stream it to the browser with the proper CFHeader and CFContent tags. The CFHeader tag is always the same, but there are several ways to handle the content.
You can stream it as text, as a file attachment, or as a binary data stream. I suspect that the binary data stream and the file stream do pretty much the same thing, but as the "Variable" attribute only came about in Cold. Fusion MX 7, I will demonstrate both methodologies. In the code below, also notice that I put in the ability to preview the code (?preview in URL).
This has nothing to do with creating Excel files, this was just for debugging purposes and to demonstrate flexability.< !- -- Create and store the simple HTML data that you wantto treat as an Excel file.- -- > < cfsavecontent variable="str. Excel. Data"> < style type="text/css"> td {font- family: "times new roman", verdana ; font- size: 1.
Conversational Phrase< /td> < td class="header"> Daily Count< /td> < /tr> < tr> < td> Sweet ass sweet!< /td> < td> 3< /td> < /tr> < tr> < td> Freakin' Sweet!< /td> < td> 1. Heck yeah!< /td> < td> 5< /td> < /tr> < tr> < td> Booya Grandma!< /td> < td> 0< /td> < /tr> < /table> < /cfsavecontent> < !- -- Check to see if we are previewing the excel data. Thiswill output the HTML/XLS to the web browser withoutinvoking the MS Excel applicaiton.- -- > < cfif Struct. Key. Exists( URL, "preview" )> < !- -- Output the excel data for preview. Excel Data Preview< /title> < /head> < body> < cfset Write. Output( str. Excel. Data ) /> < /body> < /html> < !- -- Exit out of template so that the attachmentdoes not process.- -- > < cfexit /> < /cfif> < !- -- ASSERT: At this point, we are definately not previewing thedata.
We are planning on streaming it to the browser asan attached file.- -- > < !- -- Set the header so that the browser request the userto open/save the document. Give it an attachment behaviorwill do this.
We are also suggesting that the browseruse the name "phrases. Content- Disposition"value="attachment; filename=phrases. There are several ways in which we can stream the fileto the browser: - Binary variable stream- Binary file stream- Text stream Check the URL to see which of these we are going to endup using.- -- > < cfif Struct. Key. Exists( URL, "text" )> < !- -- We are going to stream the excel data to the browserthrough the standard text output stream. The browserwill then collect this data and execute it as if itwere an attachment. Be careful to reset the content when streaming thetext as you don't want white- space to be part of thestreamed data.- -- > < cfcontenttype="application/msexcel"reset="true" < !- -- Write the output. Write. Output( str.
Excel. Data. Trim() ) < !- -- Exit out of template to prevent unexpected datastreaming to the browser (on request end??).- -- > /> < cfexit /> < cfelseif Struct. Key. Exists( URL, "file" )> < !- -- We are going to stream the excel data to the browserusing a file stream from the server. To do this, wewill have to save a temp file to the server.- -- > < !- -- Get the temp file for streaming. File. Path = Get.
Temp. File(Get. Temp. Directory(),"excel_") /> < !- -- Write the excel data to the file. WRITE"file="#str. File. Path#"output="#str.
Excel. Data. Trim()#"/> < !- -- Stream the file to the browser. By doing this, thecontent buffer is automatically cleared and the fileis streamed. We don't have to worry about anythingafter the file as no page content is taken intoaccount any more. Additionally, we are requesting that the file bedeleted after it is done streaming (deletefile). Now,we don't have to worry about cluttering up the server.- -- > < cfcontenttype="application/msexcel"file="#str. File. Path#"deletefile="true"/> < cfelse> < !- -- Bey default, we are going to stream the text as abinary variable. By using the Variable attribute, thecontent of the page is automatically reset; we don'thave to worry about clearing the buffer. In order touse this method, we have to convert the excel textdata to base.
This method is available in Cold. Fusion MX 7 and later.- -- > < cfcontenttype="application/msexcel"variable="#To. Binary( To. Base.
Excel. Data. Trim() ) )#"/> < /cfif> We are creating basic HTML documents here for use within Microsoft Excel, but that doesn't mean that we can go ahead an use just any old HTML. A lot of the HTML that you might use, especially when it comes to CSS/Styles are not used by Excel. To get a better idea of what Excel will accept create an actual Excel data file and then save it as a web page and view the source. You will see that the Excel "web preview" document has some crazy HTML most of the time, but you will also see exactly what it can work with. When it comes to streaming Excel document data to the browser, I would always go with either the file stream or the Variable stream. The streaming of text in the standard buffer has caused problems for me in the past, especially for very large files. Some characters don't seem to play well with the stream or get changed / corrupted during the process.
Not sure how it handles large, extended characters; probably not well. I am sure this is review to a lot of you, but hopefully this was a Eureka moment for a lot more of you. Enjoyed This? You Might Also Enjoy Reading.