Goo'day, Mark,
At 20:44 23/10/05 -0400, you wrote:
Tony:
What's the fastest path for someone who's been providing the CSV's for the
last 10 years and wants to deliver something more complete. I don't want to
spend a lot of my client's money on packages.
Have you considered (a) the "terminal emulator" path or (b) DOWNLOAD?
I appreciate that there are sites out there infinitly larger than the
environments we get involvred in, and that there are managers out there who
will spend a dollar or two in getting a better solution, but way down here
at the market we're in, CSV or some such seems to be "solution of choice"
to most of our sites.
Sure, we've had people look at expanding their bailiwick to include data
communications twixt UV and "desktop" products, but in most situations, the
available paths have been discounted - too much money or too complicated
with the introduction of middle-ware - "We're not computer geniuses. We
want something simple". They forgot "and as cheap as possible"....
We've had some success with MV-aware terminal emulators with "import" and
"export" functions, with UV and wIntegrate, but the per-user cost of
wIntegrate vs Dynamic Connect (no "import" or "export") normally limits the
implementation of wIntegrate to one or two desktops per site.... (Errr....
Should I mention what is now called "commercial OpenQM" with its bundled
AccuTerm 2k2? With all its "private functions")
With UV we also had lots of success, where implemented, with Cedarville
Uni's DOWNLOAD - now, that's at the *right* price - but it needs a
"complete" in-house person to keep the outlay *really* low....... Users
tend to spend a deal of money over time "automating" their
requirements..... to the extent, we found, where it falls into disfavour
'cos of the "outside" (me) cost to produce "what we want"...... Not
prepared to invest in training for staff, not prepared to invest in
"outside" assistance.......
The assumption is that the users are using Excel. I've taken some other
advice on this forum to generate HTML which has had some success but is
limited in ease of adding fields or making changes. Perhaps this is my
opportunity to get into XML.
DOWNLOAD *could* help you there, then .... an "add on" reporting facility
with XML not an "add in" .....
In his original post, Barry was looking for an "automatic autofit" of data
into Excel cells. Tony, in his reply, mentioned "DIY" XML.
I'm assuming that Barry's .csv file/s are a regular occurrence and of a
"fixed" layout. The easiest method we have used in these sorts of
circumstances is an "up front" (saved) Excel macro to add in columns,
format columns, add column headers, etc, etc, even to the extent of using
Excel's "macro recorder". So, it might take a couple of goes to get it
right, but once it's there, it's there forever....
But, I suppose that'd apply to XML as well as .csv....
It works - and it's cheap
Thanks
Mark Johnson
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