Call Excel file from Forms10g

Question

Dear friends,
I've list of excel VBA file which generated the report. All the reports are used world wide and the tough job is whenever any modifications done, need to send the .xls file for more than 200 users.
I'm trying to bring them under one roof. Is there is any possibilities to call those excel files via Forms and access through internet. We use 10g forms, so looking for the possiblities. I dont want to upload or send data to excel, just call the excel macro file from different destinations.
Pls. share your suggesstions..
Thanks in advance..
Rgds,
DL

Answer 1

hi friends,
i'm calling the forms from the server. now it is fetching the excel path, but couldnt open the excel file. I doubt whether system is looking for excel.exe in server or local machine
declare
searchType VARCHAR2(10);
extHandler VARCHAR2(100);
exePath VARCHAR2(512);
Extension varchar2(5) := 'xls';
X NUMBER;
AppID PLS_INTEGER;
BEGIN
-- Do the registry lookup for the extension
extHandler := Client_Win_API_Environment.Read_Registry
('HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\'||'.XLS',chr(0),True);
-- Then see what executable the handler invokes:
exePath := Client_Win_API_Environment.Read_Registry
('HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\'||extHandler||'\shell\Open\command', chr(0),True);
:exepath:= nvl(exePath,'no value');
X:= INSTR(exepath,'EXCEL.EXE');
X:= X+9;
:EXEPATH := SUBSTR(EXEPATH, 1, X)||' "g:/risk/xls/rsk_position_report.xls"';
AppID := DDE.App_Begin('"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\OFFICE11/excel.exe" "g:/itops/risk/xls/rsk_position_report.xls"' ,DDE.APP_MODE_MAXIMIZED);
exception
when others then
:exepath:=sqlerrm;
END;
this is throwing me 106500: non-ORACLE exception
any idea?
Rgds,
DL