Presently I am using as3xls.swc to export datagrid to excel which is giving me only to save as .xls format which is opening in microsoft excel 2010 which is OK for me, but it is only opening in protected mode where I am unable to do any edits or save it. So, can anybody know any other way to save as .xlsx format in the client side itself?
Protected mode is a feature of Excel within the Microsoft operating system. They're trying to keep you from inadvertently downloading viruses. You can defeat these measures by modifying the Excel trust store. It has nothing to do with your code, and you don't need to use older versions of Excel.
I find it easiest to add a trusted location (like your desktop).
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/excel-help/what-is-protected-view-HA010355931.aspx
You can export to Excel2007 - its just an xml file format. WE have some details on our blog: http://blog.flexicious.com/post/Flexicious-30-Release-Grid-Edition.aspx. Keep in mind however, it generates an XML file, which when you double click on, will correctly open up excel (Assuming you have excel 2007 or the reader installed).
Related
I am having accdb file(Ms access DB file) in sharepoint Document Library. I want edit the file in browser or without downloading the file to the local.
I am able to view the file but not able to Edit it.
Need help
Access doesn’t really work this way. You can store the data tables in Sharepoint, but you still need the local access file to interact with it. You can link to data tables in Sharepoint. Instead of creating a brand new table, you import the data source.
Microsoft does have a newish program out now called PowerApps that may help you accomplish something closer to what you’re describing.
I have a form that will open a file based on user's selections. A few files are .csv and those files open up in Excel, as expected. However, everything is placed into one cell... I know that there is a way to manually configure it so that the | or , are delimiters, but is there a way to set it so that Excel will automatically set the | as a delimiter?
Thank you in advance!
Because you use the word "download" and your question is tagged "html", I assume that the user interacts with a web form rather than a desktop form.
In that case, it's the web browser that decides what to do with the file. If the browser recognizes the content-type of the response as something it can handle natively (e.g. "text/plain" or "image/jpeg") then it may open the file and display it directly.
However if the content-type is not something it knows how to deal with (which is likely the case with "application/csv"), then it will download the file and ask the operating system to open it. At that point, the filename assigned to the file (which can be set via the HTTP response) may come into play.
On a Windows machine, the operating system maintains a list of file extensions and actions associated with those extensions. When you install Excel, that will normally make Excel the default "open" action for files with the ".csv" extension. That's why double-clicking on a ".csv" file opens in Excel, and also why it may open in Excel if you download it from a website. (If you didn't have Excel, it may simply ask you what program you want to use).
This is a long-winded way of saying that if you had control over the user's machine you could give the file a different file extension and then associate that extension with an action that did something different. But, I assume that you probably don't have that sort of control unless you're dealing only with in-house users, and anyway it would not be a trivial thing to achieve.
I don't think that there's any way to communicate to Excel via the command line that it should use a particular delimiter when opening a CSV file, and that - unfortunately - is the mechanism by which the operating system will ultimately open the file.
It is possible to control what Excel uses as the default delimiter for all CSV files (see https://superuser.com/a/606274/18472) but again that would require you to change the system-wide settings on your users' machines, which I imagine would not be possible.
I wan't to merge multiple access reports to one pdf file using vba code. This vba code needs to work on the computers at my work. These computers only contain Adobe Reader, and I am not able to install Acrobat because I am not Administrator. So now my code generates for all the reports a seperate pdf. I had some code to merge these pdf files to one pdf file where I use 'Acrobat.CAcroApp'. But i get an error on line:
Set AcroApp = CreateObject("AcroExch.App")
I think I am not able to do this cause the computers only have Adobe Reader installed. Is there a possibility to create one pdf file for multiple reports/pdfs without using Acrobat.
Thx in advance
2 solutions.
Make a master report that has each individual report embedded as a sub report. If it's just a few, it should work fine, but too many may bog down / crash the application.
Here's a VBA way of doing it here.
Without acrobat reader this is indeed not going to work. I, however, am using the following dirty workaround for users without acrobat;
Export all your reports to rich text ("*.RTF" format) in the same folder. Afterwards, you open a word application via access vba, and loop through the RTF files and then copy them into your word file, with a page break after every insert. Then, you save the word document as a .PDF file.
This is a method prone to errors, so if a more experienced user has a better way, please do tell. I'm interested as well!
SSRS Question: What will happen if a client machine does not have MS Office installed on it and a SSRS report's "Export to EXCEL/WORD" functionality produces on excel report? One possibility is the file will get saved on client machine but one can not open it in excel format. What is the solution to overcome this issue? Can we do something from server side?
You are correct - the report will export to Excel or Word, and the client would then be unable to open the file. If you want to open an Excel file, you will need something that can read the file format. Open source office solutions could work, as could Microsoft's Office Viewer applications, or even a converter tool that converts the file to another format.
Alternatively, could you just export to a format that IS accessible on the client machine? CSV, tab delimited, HTML, etc?
The Official Cohort Default Rates for Schools site has a link on the left to “Download Entire List.” That downloads an Access database file (.accdb). I'd like to have it in CSV (.csv) format.
This answer provides a Windows solution to import Access to MySQL, but ideally, I'd like to have a Unix command-line program, e.g., accdb2csv input.accdb output.csv. Is there anything like that? If not, how do I code that?
Here are some other links I've found:
http://jackcess.sourceforge.net/
https://github.com/akaihola/mdb2django
https://github.com/karlbennett/export-accessdb/blob/5b492778439c85f15d5c859a27094514f7aba8ee/src/main/java/org/youthnet/export/Smasher.java
https://github.com/Tomvb62/DBConvert/blob/dc67a3d835a9708320d29b8040ddc5cde7e7fa39/src/dbengine/export/MSAccess.java
I just released an access2csv program based on Jackess. Code is at https://github.com/AccelerationNet/access2csv, a binary is available at https://github.com/AccelerationNet/access2csv/releases.
so right click rename the file from Aaron.accdb to Aaron.zip and then right click unzip it. Office 2007 / 2010 formats are effectively zipped XML files.
This will give you a bunch of XML that you can easily parse using Excel, or XSL, etc.