Rowan Woodhouse <[email protected]> writes: > I need to generate a download file on the fly (it's an excel spread > sheet with content drawn from a database) but I'm having some > difficulty working out the best way to do this. > > At the moment I've got an Archetype based product that has a FileField > in the schema. So far I've been attempting to work out a way to create > the correct sort of accessor so that the generated file is never saved > in Zope itself (at the moment I just get the file coming over as plain > text mime type). Is this the best approach? If so could someone point > me in the correct direction on how to wrap the file correctly so that > it downloads correctly instead of coming over as a plain text file? If > not could someone point me in a more sensible direction?
You might want to check out `SmartCSVExporter <http://plone.org/products/smart-csv-exporter>`_ and see if you can just use that and collections to meet your requirements. Ross _______________________________________________ Product-Developers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.plone.org/mailman/listinfo/product-developers
