Try CF_Query2Excel tag - works very well

if you can't find it on Macromedia send me another email - I've got a copy 
here somewhere

Seamus


At 05:23 pm 3/04/02 , you wrote:
>At one of my clients, the content providers each look after an allocated
>part of the data used for displaying information on the web site. They
>want to be able to export their data to a spreadsheet so they can review
>it and update it off line.  These are not IT people but experts in their
>various consumer fields.  They want me to put a button in their admin
>areas for each category of comsumer data so it will export the data for
>them automatically.  I was going to do it this way and I wondered if there
>was a better way:
>
>
>(1)  Have a spreadsheet already attached to CF as a datasource.
>(2)  Use a CFQuery to delete all the records in that datasource.
>(3)  CFQUERY the SQL7 table the content provider wants to export
>(4)  loop through the query, inserting the data into the (now blank)
>spreadsheet.
>(5)  Use CFMail to email the spreadsheet to the user (getting their email
>address from their logon details).
>
>I seem to remember a function or a tag that output the results of a query
>into spreadsheet format but I can't find any reference to it any more.
>Can anyone enlighten me?
>
>
>Is this the easiest way?   Will CFMail be able to send the spread sheet or
>will I need to unlock it from the server first? in which case, how can i
>do that automatically?
>
>
>Cheers,
>Mike Kear
>AFP Webworks,
>Windsor, NSW, Australia
>
>
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