Export DataGrid to Excel

Question

Hello,
I populated a datagrid using a query. Now I want to export
the content of the datagrid to Excel.
Is this possible?
I don't want to use the query to Export to Excel.
I want to Export from the datagrid itself.
Anyone has an idea how to export my datagrid to Excel in
flex?
Thx

Answer 1

Code is below. I simplified it a bit for this post, I hope it
still works ;-)
Couple of assumptions
1) My dataproviders are XMLListCollections - you have to
adapt that if you are using something else
2) I set a dataField on the datagrid columns for the XML
attribute I want to read
I am sure there are better / more generic ways of doing this,
but this works for me right now and I blew a lot of time on this
when I first came across the problem. If you find a better solution
let me know ;-)
public static function
copyGridData(srcDataGrid:DataGrid):void {
var outputA:Array = new Array();
// header
var headerA:Array = new Array();
var columns:Array = srcDataGrid.columns;
for each (var col:DataGridColumn in columns ) {
headerA.push(col.headerText);
outputA.push(headerA.join("\t"));
// data
var data:XMLListCollection =
XMLListCollection(srcDataGrid.dataProvider);
for each (var r:XML in data) {
var rowA:Array = new Array();
for each (var col2:DataGridColumn in columns) {
if (col2.dataField != null) {
rowA.push(r.attribute(col2.dataField.substr(1,col2.dataField.length-1)));
} else {
rowA.push("");
outputA.push(rowA.join("\t"));
// copy onto the clipboard
System.setClipboard(outputA.join("\n"));
Alert.show("Data copied to the clipboard.\nOpen target
application (e.g. Excel) and paste data.", "Data Copy");