How to Export the BI Beans report to Excel sheet?

Question

Hi all,
I have a requirement of exporting the report generated by using BI Beans to Excel sheet (*.xls NOT *.csv)
Is this possible directly using any feature of BI Beans?
If not can I get the java resultset object along with meta data like column header and row header, which I can use to write the report to Excel sheet using third party excel writers like JExcel?
Please provide the code excerpts for getting the resultset.
Thanks,
Mrutyunjay

Answer 1

Hi,
Currently we only support export to csv file. The code below might help you traverse a crosstab. It is from a demo system, when a user clicks on a data cell it finds where the user clicks and updates a linked graph. So this code gets a query and traverses a particular dimension. It should hopefully point you in the correct direction.
DataComponentHandle ch = (DataComponentHandle) e.getComponentHandle();
* Thru the ComponentInfo, you can determine the row and column number
* where the user clicked. We want the dimension/dimension member combinations
* for where the user clicked. This is achieved by looking at the QDR - or
* Qualified Data Reference. Data Access will resolve the row/col into
* a dimension/dimension member pair
DataAccess dataAccess = m_linkableCrosstab.getModel().getDataAccess();
QDR qdr = ch.getComponentInfo().getQDR(dataAccess, QueryDataAccess.QDR_WITH_PAGE);
// Get the Geography selection from the QDR
QDRMember member = qdr.getDimMember(GEOGRAPHY);
// Chnage the Graph to display the data for the Geographical
// region the user selected in the Crosstab
try {
// Get the Query of the top right Graph
QueryClient query = (QueryClient)m_linkableGraphTop.getDataSource();
if (query != null) {
Selection sel = query.findSelection(GEOGRAPHY);
sel.removeAllSteps();
// Create a new MemberStep for Geography,
// and set the member on it to be the one user cliekd on in the Crosstab
MemberStep ms = new MemberStep(GEOGRAPHY);
ms.setHierarchy(sel.getHierarchy());
ms.addMember(member.toString());
sel.addStep(ms);
// Apply the new Geography selection to the Graph
query.applySelection(sel);
catch (Exception ex) {
getParentFrame().showExceptionDialog(ex);
Hope this helps
BI Beans PM Team
Oracle