I've actually looked into this an have yet to get it to find a solution, I
would be interested in the answer. For our purposes we want the user to be
able to click on a link and the output of the report will be put into an
.xls file which they can download to their desktop. Whether the goes to the
browser or directly to excel is unimportant, one way the user would have to
do a file-save as, the other way it would just go directly to the directory
they choose, either way will work. What we want to avoid is writing any
.xls files to the server even temporarily due to the sensitivity of the
data. I've tried several custom tags from the allaire gallery as well, but
have been unable to get them to work, so I have set this task aside for the
time being.
Casey Cook
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Subject: forcing downloads
Hi folks..
can anyone help us out with this one, it should be so simple and I just
can't accept all the hassle we've been having to try and figure it out.
What we want to do is have the user click a link to a cfm file, that cfm
file then returns a file (for arguements sake a .xls file) which starts to
download to the users machine (forcing download rather than returning to
browser).
We've tried using CFCONTENT and setting the type to unknown, this will
start the file downloading all right but the name that appears in the
dialog boxes is the name of the orginal cfm file that was called rather
than the name of the actual file (i.e. saves as "download.cfm" rather than
"file2download.xls" )
surely this is a simple operation? ... I really hope somebody can make me
look stoopid with the answer..
in hope
.jez
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