On Nov 4, 2:50 pm, Rotem Tamir <[email protected]> wrote: > The way I'm using is this: > > I have a template file with something like > > ${grid(data)} > > where grid is a DataGrid object and data is a list of database records > from SqlAlchemy > > To serve this I'm doing: > > @expose('project.templates.excel',content_type="application/vnd.ms- > excel") > > this way the browser thinks it's receiving a true MS-Excel file but > actualy receiving an html table (from DataGrid) - turns out excel > proceses this just fine! > > good luck > > Rotem >
Thanks Rotem! This is very cool. I'm not sure it solves my problem exactly, but it might lead to a working solution. I never thought of using the template system to create the excel file...I would have just made a tab delimited text file in one of the controller methods. Need to think more about how to use this strategy... ~Sean -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en.
