Hi all. Hopefully someone here has ran into this problem...
I have an excel exporter type deal. Now before I get alternative suggestions
for how I can do this let me explain how it has to "look" to the client.
I am on a page that shows a table format of query results. There is a little
Excel Icon that I click on to export my results to an XLS file (not csv). A
small window about 2 inches wide, 1 inch across pops up and says "Building
Excel File....Please wait" so I CFFLUSH that much to the page while it
builds the file and writes it to the server using CFFILE.
Once that file is completely written I then display "Retrieving Data". This
is where I then through Javascript submit the page to another file called
getfile.cfm. In getfile.cfm I am using CFCONTENT to retrieve that file back
out of the server and then delete it.
The problem is two things...
1. When I get the pop up box it says I am trying to download a file
"getfile.cfm" Why is it naming the file in the pop up box the name of my CFM
template? But when I click save as it saves it with the correct name
"myfile.xls". Someone on the macromedia board suggested I put the filename
after the getfile.cfm page as you can see in the code below, and it seems to
fix this problem, but I dont know how stable this is.
2. When I click open instead of save as, it doesnt open. Instead, I get a
second dialog box asking me once again if I want to open or save as. This
time, if I choose open, it does open Excel and I can read the file. Why
would it give me this pop up twice?
After the file downloads I close the window that originally popped up.
Which also isn't working, but I think that is because CF isn't letting me
process the page anymore after I use CFCONTENT or submit to a new page.
Here is the code I am using...
gen_excel.cfm
<!--- Lots of code up here parsing out the excel sheet and query blah blah
blah --->
<font id=medium><b> 2. Retrieving Data</b></font>
<form action="getfile.cfm/<cfoutput>#filename#</cfoutput>.xls" method="post"
name="TheForm">
<input type="hidden" name="filename"
value="<cfoutput>#filename#</cfoutput>.xls">
</form>
<script language="JavaScript">
document.TheForm.submit();
</script>
getfile.cfm
<cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="yes">
<cfparam name="filename" default="download.xls">
<CFHEADER NAME="Content-Type" VALUE="application/unknown">
<CFHEADER NAME="Content-Disposition" VALUE="attachment;
filename=""#Filename#""">
<CFCONTENT TYPE="application/unknown" FILE="#path_to_tempdir##filename#"
deletefile="yes">
<cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="no">
Any help would be greatly appreciated. The poeple at Macromedia and the
boards and such either don't know or just aren't helpful.
Thanks,
Misty Woodward
BigOSoftware
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