Generating Excel Sheet from Reports ......

Question

Hi,
I want to generate reports both in Oracle Reports 6.0, as well
as in Microsoft Excel. The simplest solution I thought was to
generate the Oracle Report first and then, give a button on the
report, which when pressed, can scan the data in the generated
report and write it into an Excel file. The writing part to
Excel file, I can do by using the OLE2 automation. I am not able
to find a way to read the data in the generated report
programatically. Is this possible and if yes, then can anyone
suggest me a way to do this. Is there an alternate solution to
this problem.
regards,
Abhilash

Answer 1

Hi ,
Modified your code .
public void generate(IPortalComponentRequest request) throws Exception {
HSSFWorkbook wb = new HSSFWorkbook();
HSSFSheet sheet = wb.createSheet();
HSSFRow row = sheet.createRow(3);
HSSFCell cell = row.createCell((short)0);
HSSFCellStyle cs1 = wb.createCellStyle();
HSSFCellStyle cs2 = wb.createCellStyle();
HSSFCellStyle cs3 = wb.createCellStyle();
HSSFDataFormat df = wb.createDataFormat();
HSSFFont f = wb.createFont();
HSSFFont f2 = wb.createFont();
f.setFontHeightInPoints((short) 12);
f2.setFontHeightInPoints((short) 10);
cs1.setFont(f);
cs1.setDataFormat(df.getFormat("#,##0.0"));
cs2.setFont(f2);
cell.setCellValue(1);
row.createCell((short)1).setCellValue(1.2);
row.createCell((short)2).setCellValue("This is a string");
row.createCell((short)3).setCellValue(true);
HttpServletResponse res = request.getServletResponse(true);
try {
res.setContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel");
wb.write(res.getOutputStream());
}catch(Exception e) {}
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