Opening Excel Workbooks from a WAD

Question

Hello Experts,
My company is using a mixture of 3.5 and 7 Queries and Web Templates.
I use the 3.5 WAD Role Menu item to give direct access to 3.5 Queries (via the Adhoc Query Browser) and 7.0 Web Templates.
However to solve a complex problem I have had to use some 7.0 Excel Workbooks.
The workbooks appear and can be executed from PFCG, however they do not appear on my web Role Menu item!
Has anyone over come this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Ruben

Answer 1

Hi,
In my application , we have Excel files on the server i.e we are not creating excel sheets.
I just want to display these static excel files through a jsp.
I am able to display the excel files by reading them into ByteArrayOutputStream
<%
response.setContentType("application/vnd.ms-excel");
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition","attachment; filename=B.xls");
ServletOutputStream so = response.getOutputStream();
String filename = "D:\\Test.xls";
String mimetype = "application/vnd.ms-excel";
ByteArrayOutputStream output = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
InputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(filename));
byte bytebuff[] = new byte[500];
for(int lengthread = 0; (lengthread = in.read(bytebuff)) != -1;){
output.write(bytebuff, 0, lengthread);
byte data[] = output.toByteArray();
response.setContentType(mimetype);
so.write(data);
in.close();
so.close();
%>But my question is that , do i really need to do all this for rendering excel through a jsp.
Can't i do it by just setting the content type ?
Thanks