We do pretty much the same thing

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Post #22,255 by JayMehaffey 12/21/01 8:50:36 PM Reply	We do pretty much the same thing The application I work on does pretty much the same thing right now. We actually build an .xls file on the server, and then put a link so they can download the file. To upload the file we have a macro in the spreadsheet that picks up the data fields we need back, formats them nicely and copies them to the clipboard. Then the user can past them into a text box on the server. Jay
Post #22,434 by Arkadiy 12/26/01 11:58:59 AM Reply	OUCH!!!!
Post #22,473 by CRConrad 12/27/01 9:13:16 AM Reply	Done that too, in PL/SQL. Only, IIUC it was... ...actually a CSV-format file -- but by giving it the .XLS file-name extension, you get Windows/Explorer/Internet Explorer to have Excel open it by default, and then you let that figure out the actual format of the file. Can't be sure, though; it could be that we used some special export-to-Excel package that built a real actual Excel file... I dunno, it was a while ago, and I only copied-and-modified a colleague's code. Oh, and we only built the file if they really tried to download it. The URL pointed to a PL/SQL procedure that, when they clicked the URL / invoked the procedure, built a file for them. IIRC. Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything

Trolling for ideas... - (ChrisR) - (11) - Dec. 20, 2001, 11:09:50 PM EST

Only thing I can think of - (nking) - (2) - Dec. 21, 2001, 12:20:22 AM EST

Fat clients - (ChrisR) - Dec. 21, 2001, 11:42:03 AM EST

We did something like that - (nking) - Dec. 21, 2001, 12:40:02 PM EST

Is it a simple data structure? - (ben_tilly) - (4) - Dec. 21, 2001, 07:12:25 AM EST

A tree of sorts - (ChrisR) - Dec. 21, 2001, 11:48:11 AM EST

We do pretty much the same thing - (JayMehaffey) - (2) - Dec. 21, 2001, 08:50:36 PM EST

OUCH!!!! -NT - (Arkadiy) - Dec. 26, 2001, 11:58:59 AM EST

Done that too, in PL/SQL. Only, IIUC it was... - (CRConrad) - Dec. 27, 2001, 09:13:16 AM EST

Install a web server? - (Arkadiy) - (2) - Dec. 21, 2001, 10:02:04 AM EST

Roll your own server? - (ChrisR) - Dec. 21, 2001, 11:51:43 AM EST

Not hard, but it has some issues - (nking) - Dec. 21, 2001, 12:45:07 PM EST

PDF the sucker to me. Prepaid.
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