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That's what I am going to go for. The user can then open the file in excel
or some other program they have. 

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Sent: 20 April 2005 16:09
To: Coldfusion Development
Subject: Re: [CF-Dev] Download a returned recordset

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what's wrong with a CSV?

Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote:
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> 
> Depending on what it is you can get strange results when outputting to 
> Excel. We use POI for Query to Excel and Excel to Query but we are on 
> MX - you may be able to use it on CF5 though just a little more 
> convoluted I would think.
> 
> http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/index.html
> 
> This is very fast, very reliable.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Simon Baynes
> Sent: 20 April 2005 15:50
> To: Coldfusion Development
> Subject: Re: [CF-Dev] Download a returned recordset
> 
> 
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> 
> Why are you using a structure? Just output the results form the query 
> to the page.
> 
> Does your query change much? If not the cache it and that will save 
> database hits.
> 
> On 4/20/05, Stephen Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
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>>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have a query which displays a large number of result, anywhere 
>>between
> 
> 500
> 
>>to 1800. Now not only do I want to display the results in my page. I 
>>want
> 
> to
> 
>>allow the user to download this result set into an Excel file.
>>
>>The idea I am thinking of using is placing the results into a 
>>structure
> 
> and
> 
>>then using this structure to loop through in one page to display the 
>>results, and then when the user decides they wish to download this 
>>result set, loop through the structure again in another file creating 
>>the
> 
> download
> 
>>excel file, using cfhttp and cfcontent.
>>
>>But I am worried about the performance of this, will this method be to
> 
> slow,
> 
>>is there another way I could do this. Unfortunately the site is 
>>running on CF5, no CF7, bugger!
>>
>>Stephen
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