Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
MDCFUGMaryland ColdFusion User Group
3/14/2000
Downloading CF Data into Excel
presented by Joan Falcão, NIST
Quick and Dirty
Save your ColdFusion web page in html Open Excel Open the html file from the Excel File/Open menu
Html tables translate into Excel tables Form objects translate into Excel objects
“Seamless” Integration
Code a template with cfcontent tag Invoke the template from the following template
Configure each browser to associate “application/excel” with the Excel executable via the “Pick App” button
Embellish with Excel macro or add-in(another configuration step)
ColdFusion Code for Excel
Use cfcontent Tag• Enable CFCONTENT in CF Server Basic security?
• <cfcontent type="application/excel"> Select import format:
• html or tab/carriage return Engineer white space
• <cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="yes">• Careful placement of <cfoutput> and </cfoutput>
Plan ahead for next screen• Post the Excel sheet from the next screen
Configure browsers to open Excel automatically
Excel_tab.cfm<cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="yes"><cfset AwardNumber = "6H2000"><cfset RecipientName = "TeraTech, Inc">
<!--- QUERIES FOR GRANTS AND ACCRUALS DATA AND LAST UPDATED DATE---><cfquery name="GetAccruals" datasource="Grants">SELECT FY, PP, Accrual FROM AllYearAccrualsWHERE AwardNumber='#AwardNumber#' AND Accrual <> 0</cfquery>
<!--- START OF EXCEL OUTPUT. ---><!--- Delimited by TAB and RETURN. ---><!--- APPLICATION.CFM white space will be included. ---><!--- So be sure to use cfsetting enablecfoutputonly --->
<!--- EVERYTHING PRINTED MUST FALL WITHIN CFOUTPUT TAGS ---><cfcontent type="application/excel">
<!--- HEADING DATA ---><cfoutput>Award Number: #AwardNumber#Recipient Name: #RecipientName#</cfoutput>
<!--- DYNAMICALLY RENDERED ACCRUALS DATA. PRINTED ROW-BY-ROW. ---><!--- Engineer your white space carefully. ---><!--- Pay careful attention to placement of cfoutput tags --->
<cfoutput query="GetAccruals">#FY# #PP# #DollarFormat(Accrual)#</cfoutput><cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="no">
Excel_tab.cfm OUTPUTAward Number: 6H2000
Recipient Name: TeraTech, Inc
1997 23 $629,972.00
1997 3 $525,761.00
1997 11 $741,652.00
1997 16 $1,142,713.00
1998 25 $170,008.00
1998 25 $935,902.00
1998 5 $201,170.00
1998 10 $1,366,523.00
1998 16 $1,832,299.00
Excel_html.cfm (1 of 3)<cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="yes"><cfset AwardNumber = "6H2000"><cfset RecipientName = "TeraTech, Inc">
<!--- QUERIES FOR GRANTS AND ACCRUALS DATA AND LAST UPDATED DATE---><cfquery name="GetAccruals" datasource="Grants">SELECT FY, PP, Accrual FROM AllYearAccrualsWHERE AwardNumber='#AwardNumber#' AND Accrual <> 0</cfquery>
<!--- START OF EXCEL OUTPUT. ---><!--- EXCEL SPREADSHEET WILL READ/IMPORT HTML FORMATTING. ---><!--- EVERYTHING PRINTED MUST FALL WITHIN CFOUTPUT TAGS --->
<cfcontent type="application/excel">
<!--- GRANTS DATA AND ASOFDATE DISPLAYED ---><cfoutput><html><head><title>Accruals History</title></head>
Excel_html.cfm (2 of 3)
<body>
<table border="2" bordercolor="red">
<tr><td align="LEFT" bgcolor="Aqua"><font face="Arial Narrow"><b>Award Number:</b></font></td><td align="left" colspan=2><font face="Arial Narrow">#AwardNumber#</font></td>
</tr>
<tr><td align="left" bgcolor="Aqua"><font face="Arial Narrow"><b>Recipient Name:</b></font></td><td align="left" colspan=2><font face="Arial Narrow">#RecipientName#</font></td>
</tr>
</cfoutput>
Excel_html.cfm (3 of 3)
<!--- DYNAMICALLY RENDERED ACCRUALS DATA. --->
<cfoutput query="GetAccruals">
<tr>
<td align="center"><font face="Arial Narrow">#FY#</font></td>
<td align="center"><font face="Arial Narrow">#PP#</font></td>
<td align="right"><font face="Arial Narrow">#DollarFormat(Accrual)#</font></td>
</tr>
</cfoutput>
<!--- END OF EXCEL OUTPUT --->
<cfoutput>
</table>
</body>
</html>
</cfoutput>
<cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="no">
Called from NextScreen.cfm<html><title>Next Screen</title>
<cfif IsDefined("GenerateExcel")><body onLoad="document.excel.submit();">
<cfelse><body>
</cfif>
<!--- Contents of next screen --->
Hello World!
<cfif IsDefined("GenerateExcel")><!--- hidden form to pass variables to Excel spread sheet ---><form name="excel" action="Excel_tab.cfm" method="post"><input type="hidden" name="AwardNumber" value="6H2000"><input type="hidden" name="RecipientName" value="TeraTech, Inc"></form>
</cfif></body></html>
Application.cfm
Ensure that application.cfm does not generate white space – especially with “tab&carriage return” format
<cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="yes">
<!--- Your Application.cfm code goes here --->
<cfsetting enablecfoutputonly="no">
Configure Each Browser(Netscape notes)
If you’re lucky, Netscape will prompt you• In the “Unknown File Type” box,• click the “Pick App” button, and• browse for/SELECT the Excel executable on your PC
If unlucky, (blank screen or Netscape insists on saving):• On Netscape menu bar,• edit/preferences/category/navigator/applications• search each description for “file type details” entry with
MIME type = “application/excel”• it may have “description” of “download” (from Norton) • delete it, since it’s not working• regenerate the Excel file and respond to prompt
For security reasons, do not uncheck the box:
“Always ask before opening this type of file”
![mailto:richard.davis@fmglobal.com] - nist.gov](https://img.pdfslide.net/doc/110x75/6299b29681e8d526d1386d99/mailto-fmglobalcom-nistgov.jpg)
