Tony,
You can do anything you need to do in the cf template, writing it out as you
would normal html. Excel can open an html file (formatted like a table) and
it will "function" exactly like excel. The following code will trick the
browser into thinking it's dealing with excel:
<CFHEADER NAME="Content-Disposition" VALUE="attachment;
filename=sample.xls"> <CFCONTENT TYPE="application/excel">

If you're going to email the file to someone, I would think that you could
use cffile to write the content (using cfsavecontent to build the page).

-Deanna


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tony Weeg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 10:13 AM
Subject: RE: query output to Excel file


> trouble is, I cant do it all in 1 query, I have cf logic that HAS to be
> there, and it is then emailed to a client :( so, is there a way to take
> a cfquery object that is returned, and just dump that into something,
> and send it, versus writing line by line by line....
>
> tony weeg
> sr. web applications architect
> navtrak, inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.navtrak.net
> office 410.548.2337
> fax 410.860.2337
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Craig Dudley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 10:53 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: query output to Excel file
>
>
> Youre using SQL server yes?
>
> So DTS would be the best option for that amount of data, Jon Hall posted
> all about it a few months back, check the archives.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tony Weeg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 04 September 2003 15:54
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: query output to Excel file
>
>
> id love to know myself, I have a query that returns an assload of data,
> that I have to write to csv, and now it takes 45 minutes to
> complete...there has to be a better way!
>
> tony weeg
> sr. web applications architect
> navtrak, inc.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.navtrak.net
> office 410.548.2337
> fax 410.860.2337
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Petr Kysela [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 10:45 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: query output to Excel file
>
>
> What would you say is the best way of creating an Excel file from query
> data? I don't need to know how to create a .csv file.
>
> I've seen solutions through ADO objects, ODBC dsn, custom tags, etc.
>
> But surely there must be something quick and easy.
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
> 
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