Thanks for your reply Geoff! > --// Fake Word > You could generate HTML and just deliver it via CFCONTENT as .DOC or > .XLS. Clever use of MS styles and the like can lead to pretty > sophisitcated docs and sheets. For excel you create HTML tables... you > can even populate them with formulas. > > Sam Neff talks a bit about this and other approaches here: > Serving Word (complete with Breezo) > http://www.rewindlife.com/archives/000032.cfm
This was great. I was able to create a basic Word doc on the server using Sam's method by just saving the resulting HTML/CSS/XML as a .doc file. However, our Word docs require headers and footers and when I tried to do the same thing Word threw this error ��docFilename� is not a valid Web Archive�. I'm emailing Sam to see if he can help. > --// Java (Apache POI) > http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ > > Dave Ross has a great note specifically how to use POI with Excel... > should be useful start for most any application of the technology in CFMX: > Generating Excel spreadsheets from CFMX > http://www.d-ross.org/index.cfm?objectid=9C65ED5A-508B-E116-6F4F7F38C6AE167C Dave's blog is the best POI example I've seen - thanks! I have only found one other person using XML to generate Excel docs but several using POI, so I think we will try POI before we head down the XML road. Cheers Nathan --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aussie Macromedia Developers: http://lists.daemon.com.au/
