Generate Excel spreadsheet

How can I generate a tabular report in a excel spreadsheet. Can we make the comma separated output file automatically convert into an excel spreadsheet while excuting a report
I am using Reports 6i
Thank you
Philip Juch

Yes you can use desformat=delimited & delimiter =, as a runtime parameter values

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Php to generate numbers spreadsheet

there is a pear package (http://pear.php.net/package/SpreadsheetExcelWriter) that uses php to generate excel spreadsheets. could this be done with numbers? anyone have any idea what would have to change to use numbers instead of excel?

that explains quite a bit, thanks.
this could be worth my while though. i've never used numbers and rarely use excel. is anyone aware of any obvious reasons that using numbers for this purpose might be better?
i have modified a version of the spreadsheet excel writer and making graphs is possible but very tedious and extremely limited, could it be that numbers make it easier to do this?
also excel is tricky with the way it stores dates and some of it's formatting information, and a wild little conversion process as to take place to convert from mysql format to a format excel will display properly. maybe numbers might improve this?
finally, the only way i've discovered to effectively upload information from an excel spreadsheet is to first export it to csv (mostly because of this date and formatting issues) then upload it. obviously it'd make more sense to an end-user not have to export a file to a different format. i was hoping numbers might be able to keep a consistent file format instead.
like you said, the structure is not documented, so i doubt you'd know the answers here for sure. but do have any incline at all that any of these points would be improved by using numbers?
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How to generate an excel spreadsheet from an Oracle Application forms runni

I need URGENT generate an Excel spreadsheet with rows and columns populated from a forms that is running on Oracle Application R11.5 and open this worksheet for the User save.
I want to include a PL*SQL code on a button and this button to run the spreadsheet open save for the User.
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I need URGENT generate an Excel spreadsheet with rows and columns populated from a forms that is running on Oracle Application R11.5 and open this worksheet for the User save.
I want to include a PL*SQL code on a button and this button to run the spreadsheet open save for the User. This functionality is already available in the application (File > Export) and you do not need to write a code to do that.
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Excel spreadsheet in generated word file

Hi
I'm using BI Publisher Release 10.1.3.4
I have an .rtf template which will be used to generate a .doc file.
In this generated report I would like to have an excel spreadsheet to calculate some data whit data that the user has to fill in into this spreadsheet (so it can't be calculated upon creation of the report).
When I generate the report the excel spreadsheet is not added in the output file.
Is there a way to do this or is this just not supported?
Thx in advance!
Philip
Edited by: Philip on 17-feb-2011 10:52

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How can I generate a data merge that includes a barcode from excel spreadsheet to InDesign?

Can you please advise if the following process is possible within InDesign CS 5.5? (Mac OS 10.8.2).
We need to create a data merge that includes a barcode. The data merge is for several thousand records.
We have a customer-supplied Excel spreadsheet that contains seven fields, one of which is a number that ultimately needs to print as a barcode when we make the data merge in InDesign.
As you would expect, the conventional six fields data merge perfectly - but we can't find a way to make the barcode print correctly within the data merge.
We have investigated several possible solutions without success.
Some solutions suggest a plug-in for Excel to convert the number into a barcode whilst still in the spreadsheet - but this doesn't come across correctly when we import the CSV file into the InDesign data merge.
We have investigated certain third party software applications but none provide the full solution we require. Some, for example, appear to create the barcode within the Excel spreadsheet but don't produce the barcode correctly when we data merge in InDesign; and some will allow us to create a one-off barcode within InDesign but have no automated way of retrieving the thousands of Excel numbers and turning them into barcodes.
We have also come across possible 'font' solutions but have had no success with these either.
For a previous job we needed to produce we outsourced to a specialist mailing company, who assured us they produced the whole job (very quickly) within InDesign. They, understandably, won't tell us how they did it. But, given the speed with which they produced the job for us, we imagine - with the correct software - the whole process is easy to do.
Can you please advise?

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How to Format Microsoft Excel spreadsheet generated using RFC

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Hi Jithu,
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How do I generate a data merge in InDesign from an excel spreadsheet which includes a barcode

Can you please advise if the following process is possible within InDesign CS 5.5? (Mac OS 10.8.2).
We need to create a data merge that includes a barcode. The data merge is for several thousand records.
We have a customer-supplied Excel spreadsheet that contains seven fields, one of which is a number that ultimately needs to print as a barcode when we make the data merge in InDesign.
As you would expect, the conventional six fields data merge perfectly - but we can't find a way to make the barcode print correctly within the data merge.
We have investigated several possible solutions without success.
Some solutions suggest a plug-in for Excel to convert the number into a barcode whilst still in the spreadsheet - but this doesn't come across correctly when we import the CSV file into the InDesign data merge.
We have investigated certain third party software applications but none provide the full solution we require. Some, for example, appear to create the barcode within the Excel spreadsheet but don't produce the barcode correctly when we data merge in InDesign; and some will allow us to create a one-off barcode within InDesign but have no automated way of retrieving the thousands of Excel numbers and turning them into barcodes.
We have also come across possible 'font' solutions but have had no success with these either.
For a previous job we needed to produce we outsourced to a specialist mailing company, who assured us they produced the whole job (very quickly) within InDesign. They, understandably, won't tell us how they did it. But, given the speed with which they produced the job for us, we imagine - with the correct software - the whole process is easy to do.
Can you please advise?

HI MIKE
Thanks again for your reply and your help with this.
I've downloaded the barcode font from the link you supplied.
I've tried three tests - and seem much closer to getting what we need. But I've come up against a couple of issues.
TEST 1 - almost just to see if the downloaded font worked, I simply data merged our source csv file and applied the downloaded barcode font to the serial number in ID. Probably unsurprisingly, this produced a perfectly printed barcode - that wouldn't scan.
TEST 2 - I manually added asterisks before and after the serial number in the first couple of fields and then tried the same process as TEST 1. It produced a perfectly printed barcode which this time DID scan correctly - but obviously the barcode had asterisks on it which I don't want. I just want the serial number. And with thousands of serial numbers we need the addition of the asterisks to happen automatically (which is where your text editor process seems the perfect solution, if we could get that to work).
TEST 3 - Noting your comments about using parenthesis around the serial number, I followed your example of (123456). But Excel won't let me type a parenthesis. It lets me type the parenthesis but then instantly substitutes it with a - (hyphen) before the number in the actual serial number cell and no character at all after the number.
If you have any suggestions or solutions for any of the above they'd be gratefully received! Thanks again for all your help with this.
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Rob

IMporting Excel Spreadsheets

Hello
We recently upgraded RH in our company from x5 to HTML 6,
build 099. In a project I worked on with X5, I had imported Excel
spreadsheets saved as html and generated a primary layout without
any problem. However, in 6, when I would generate a layout, it
would get to Updating Files and RH would crash without any error. I
narrowed it down to 10 html files that were all Excel spreadsheets
saved as html and imported into my project in x5. If I deleted
those 10 files, the project would generate the layout. If I
imported any of those files, it would crash again.
To recreate the spreadsheets in RH wold just be too time
consuming, and really inefficient as I expect to get regular
updates on these spreadsheets to have available on this website via
our intranet. Has anyone encountered this before? and
recommendations?
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Hi BradPrid and welcome to our community
Did these spreadsheet files have any conditional text
applied? If so, I believe a problem exists with merged table cells
(which seem quite likely coming from Excel) when you use
conditional text.
If you can't seem to sort it, one thought would be to simply
import the Excel HTML files as baggage files. Then simply link to
them or maybe use redirects.
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Linking to specific cells in an Excel spreadsheet no longer working

I use RoboHelp HTML version 7 and just upgraded to MS Office 2007. I have project that contains hyperlinks to specific cells in an Excel spreadsheet using the following syntax: <a HREF="../file_name.xls#cell_name"> (a tip I found on Peter Grainge's website). This worked fine with Office 2003.
With Office 2007, however, the hyperlink opens the Excel spreadsheet to the first cell on the first tab regardless of the the #cell_name suffix. I've tried the following with no success:
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Hi all
As I understand it, the "X" on the 2007 stuff signifies a format similar to a zipped format. If what I understand is true, it would seem to make sense that this would also somewhat preclude linking in the manner you are speaking of. It would be akin to opening a specific document after first opening the zip archive.
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How to get an effective EXCEL Spreadsheet as output for Oracle report 10g

Hi All,
I am a newbie in Oracle reporting. I am using 10g. I have an oracle report whose output format is PDF from the user interface. User asked for Spreadsheet output. I changed the JAVA CODE "desformat" = Spreadsheet and got the report in Excel. But this report is not as expected as it has many blank cells, misplacements etc and looks really ugly. so Is there anyway to get an excellent spreadsheet as output.
If anybody needs any more information on this, please let me know.
Thanks in advance.

Thank you so much Marwim. Your suggestion is very helpful. But I have some other Oracle reports which have only one .rdf file giving output in both pdf and Excel. This doubt might be silly. Almost same features were existing for the rdf what I am working now. For the remaining reports, it was given that DESFORMAT=SPREADSHEET , what this report lacks. I googled and found these links http://docs.oracle.com/html/B13895_01/orbr_paptoexcel.htm &
http://docs.oracle.com/html/B13895_01/orbr_paptoexcel.htm#CIHFDJAJ . But they are not intended for excel output. they generate only web layout in spreadsheet form. Could you please suggest any other ways to achieve this.
Thank you in advacne.
Edited by: user07960 on Jan 10, 2013 10:47 AM

Revised "Generate Excel Report" Example

I recently answered a question from a Forum user about an error encountered when trying to generate an Excel spreadsheet with the Report Generation Toolkit. I thought that the example code he was using was "unusual" and overly complex, and just discovered that it was, in fact, the LabVIEW 2013 "Generate Report From Template (Excel)" Example.
In the spirit of trying to demonstrate how nice the new(er) "Easy Excel" functions are, I rewrote this Example, and have attached it here. While doing so, I discovered (and have reported to NI) a "bug/feature" of the Excel Insert Graph function. One of its parameters allows you to position the graph by specifying the Left and Top edges (Left would be the Excel Column, Top would be the Excel Row). The only problem is that the parameters are reversed -- to put the graph on Row 1, Column G, you specify (0, 6), not (6, 0). Oops ...
Solved!
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Here is a Snippet, in LabVIEW 2012, of the Excel Demo (the Revised Generate Excel Report Example). If you have LabVIEW 2012 or more recent, you should be able to drag this into a blank Block Diagram and have the VI "magically" created. If you have an earlier version of LabVIEW, you can at least see a picture of all the VIs and wiring here, and can open LabVIEW and "build it yourself". There are no Case statements, so nothing is hidden from view. In case the image is too small, I also attached the PNG file, which you should be able to open with an Image Viewer and potentially print out for yourself.
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Generating Excell Sheet using Reports 9i

Hello,
I wanna know how can I do to generate one excell sheet using reports, without
use the option that4s generate text file using tab. I wanna know if someone have
example codes, or library4s.
Thanks,
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Here are some notes we created from the demo below. This works great for generating true formated excel output in 9i Reports using 9ias Rel2.
Notes from
http://otn.oracle.com/products/reports/htdocs/getstart/demonstrations/index.html
Output to Excel with Oracle9i Report
1.     Create an Excel template for the report. It should contain generic information such as title, logo and column headers
2.     Cretae a sample line of data in the spreadsheet
3.     Save the Excel spreadsheet as a Web page. File | Save As Web Page
4.     Open the Web page you just created in Reports Builder
5.     Double-click on Web Source node to display the HTML code for the Excel spreadsheet
6.     Note how Excel generated HTML and XML code for the spreadsheet you created. Reports Builder also adds its own JSP tags
7.     Add the Data Source An SQL Query
8.     Modify the Web Source. Now that youve written the query, you can modify the Web source to tell Reports Builder to display your report in Excel.
9.     Click on the Web Source icon in the toolbar.
10.     To force the browser to open MS Excel it is necessary to change the HTTP Content Type to a specific MIME Type:
application/vnd.ms-excel
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          <%@ page contentType=application/vnd.ms-excel %>
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11.     To respect Excel format, you should delete the blank lines above the <html> tag.
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13.     Search for the sample line of data you added to your Excel spreadsheet
14.     Each line is saved as an HTML Table Row tag ( <tr> ).
15.     Each column is mapped as an HTML Table Data tag ( <td> ).
16.     Using Reports JSP Tags, add a Reports repeating frame tag to loop around the Data Model group.
17.     To help, show the Object navigator next to the Web Source Window. All group information is now visible in the Object Navigator
18.     Enclose the sample line of code in the Web source with the Reports9i JSP repeating tag.
Use from menu Insert | Repeating Frame at beginning of sample
Move the closing repeating tag after the </tr> tag.
Start of the repeating tag would be
<rw:foreach id=foreach src=>
Ending of the repeating frame would be
</rw:foreach>
19.     In the opening of the repeating tag (<for each>), add the name of the group the tags enclose. JSP custom tags require a unique identifier.
For example: <rw:foreach id=gEmpNoId src=G_EMPNO>
20.     Now, map the cells of the Excel spreadsheet to the corresponding field from your data model.
Select on the data value. From menu select Insert | Field. The source of the tag is the name of the field in the query.
21.     Repeat the operation for each field of the report. Note: do not forget to specify a unique identifier for each field.
22.     The code now contains a repeating frame. You have also mapped each cell in the Excel spreadsheet to the corresponding field in the data model
23.     Save the report as a Reports JSP. You can test the report using the Run Web Layout icon in the toolbar
24.     The execution of a Web Layout report from Reports Builder creates a temporary HTML file and launches the browser. The browser does not launch Excel because the document is saved as an HTML file. To launch Excel from the browser you need to test it from Reports Server.
25.     In order to have the report appear inside Excel, you need to execute it with the Reports Server under OC4J. To do this you need to:
First, start an OC4J instance from Oracle 9iDS see How to Execute Reports Services from Oracle 9iDS on OTN. Then, copy the JSP to a directory. For example: $IDS_HOME/reports/j2ee/reports_ids/web/test
26.     Enter the URL to execute the jsp. The JSP is executed from an OC4J instance.
http://reports9iTestServer:8888/reports/test/ListOfEmployees.jsp?userid=scott/tiger@ora901
27. The browser launches Microsoft Excel and displays the data from your report.

Report output to excel spreadsheet

Hi,
I have a matrix report which will be run through oracle apps by the user. Now the user will open the output file in excel spreadsheet for further analysis.
I can not create an ascii file as it is a matrix type report. What could be the best solution ?
Thanks.

Thank you so much Marwim. Your suggestion is very helpful. But I have some other Oracle reports which have only one .rdf file giving output in both pdf and Excel. This doubt might be silly. Almost same features were existing for the rdf what I am working now. For the remaining reports, it was given that DESFORMAT=SPREADSHEET , what this report lacks. I googled and found these links http://docs.oracle.com/html/B13895_01/orbr_paptoexcel.htm &
http://docs.oracle.com/html/B13895_01/orbr_paptoexcel.htm#CIHFDJAJ . But they are not intended for excel output. they generate only web layout in spreadsheet form. Could you please suggest any other ways to achieve this.
Thank you in advacne.
Edited by: user07960 on Jan 10, 2013 10:47 AM

Writing two arrays to a Excel Spreadsheet

Guru's
I am trying to take information from two arrays and write them to a spreadsheet. One array generates the headers information for the columns, the other array is a random number generator. The number of columns and rows are input from the front panel. The first column of the chart is time at some multiple (interval) input from the front panel
The problem I am having is timing the data out of the loop at the same time so they write together. One loop writes first and the other is left out. The data is going out to an excel spreadsheet. The data is correct for the headers and the columns, but won't write together.
I have only been using LabView for six weeks and have spent a good portion of this weekend working on this problem.
Attached are screen shots and the .vi of the problem. Explanations of each loop are writen in the block diagram.
Thank you for your time and help!!
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First let's talk about the code flaws:
Placing a text decoration over a path constant does not turn it into a valid path constant.
All your controls belong outside the loop, because it would be really bad if they could change during running of the loop. This is also less work, because LabVIEW does not need to re-inspect the control during each iteration.
Your while loop should be a FOR loop because the number of iteration can be calculated before the loop starts. This eliminates checking for termination.
You are not writing any excel files. You are just writing an ASCII table, but you possibly force excel to open it via a fake file extension. (this might be OK, but make sure to NEVER save it later as excel or the file structure would change dramatically).
"# of rows" and "# of machines" should be integers (blue).
Don't be afraid to brance a wire. You don't need any local variables if you do so.
To determine the order in which the segments are written to the file can be determined by dataflow if you wire it correctly. Wire the path to the write function that needs to write first. Then use the path output of this function and wire it to the next instance. Now the second instance must wait until the first one is finished.
(Currently you are branching the path wire, and the execution order is random!)
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How do I validate a field using names in Excel spreadsheet only

I am new to PDF forms and I need to create one with a text field that is validated against a list of 300 names, to ensure the names are spelt correctly by the person completing the form. Short of creating a dropdown box and manually typing in the 300 names, is there an easy way to do this?
I have exported the form from Indesign as an interactive PDF, then created all the fields and now the client has asked for this?? The names are held in an excel spreadsheet.
Also, second questions, is there an easy way to automatically generate a second form, rather than saving each form individually. Basically one person could be completing 30-40 forms which each will need printing out centrally and rather than saving as the name of each person they are completing it for, is there an easy way to do this?
Many thanks for any help you can offer, but please explain simply as I am new to all this.

Thanks Gilad,
Issue 1# - the list should only change a few times each year, so how I will google how to hard-code it in a script as you suggest, sounds just what I was looking for, rather than a drop down with 300 names.
Issue 2# - the form is a certificate with various options on, which are now fields, and each tutor may have between 12 and 60 to complete and then forward back to the office to be printed centrally. So, is there a way that you can automatically create another blank form once one is completed until all the certificates are completed for the number of pupils and then save them all in the one file to email back to the office, or will each one need to be submitted individually for printing.
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