[flexcoders] Re: export to excel

[Anatole Tartakovsky]

Tom,
The answers inline
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Is there a way to create an Excel file on the client using flex ?
After you create Excel. you would not be able to save it as Flex can't write to the file system (Apollo will change that) so your options on client are limited to SWC, Excel with embedded flash or other type of interprocess communications. The book chapter shows also clipboard, but basically no access to the file system means either second app or roundtrip to server.

 
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If not, the only way to support IE AND firefox is by using a getData button in an empty Excel ?
getData button can also load and open blank Excel so user interaction is minimal
 
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If you do it server side, it would do it with a .net webservice that gets some params, retrieves the data, creates a new Excel file and pushes it to the flex app user.

Not sure of a question. but you would essentially post all the data as XML/HTML to servlet/.net page that would set mime type and return it to the client to be opened as a popup window.
 
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What about layout possibilities ?
Limitless
 
 
Hope this helps,
Anatole
 
On 9/20/06, Tom Van Haver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:




Anatole,
 
As you are the only one that answered, i turn to you.
 
-          
Is there a way to create an Excel file on the client using flex ?
-          
If not, the only way to support IE AND firefox is by using a getData button in an empty Excel ?
-          
If you do it server side, it would do it with a .net webservice that gets some params, retrieves the data, creates a new Excel file and pushes it to the flex app user.

-          
What about layout possibilities ?
 
 
Thanks alot, Tom.
 
 
Kind regards,
Tom Van Haver, Web Developer


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