Save Iview as excel/word/html

Question

Is there a neat way of exporting an iview to xls/doc/html format? It could be server side too.
So far I have explored possibilities with javascript (
shellExec
command) but this seems to work for IE only. Also when I do a SaveAs for the iview the saved file has a warning message that says 'Iview content expired....etc'.
Saving it as HTML doesnt work and it give all sorts of javascript object no defined errors.
How do I save the iview ( prefreably the same way as it looks in the browser )  to a file with the data entered.
Thanks
Sid

Answer 1

You could do all of this through java. You should use HSSF apis which is part of open source POI project. It is very easy to use. For more documentation and to download the jar , go to http://jakarta.apache.org
I am also planning to write a weblog on how to use HSSF api to create an excel. If you can wait couple more days, you will have a pretty good source code.
This is what code would look like.
HSSFWorkbook wb = new HSSFWorkbook();
    HSSFSheet sheet = wb.createSheet("new sheet");
    // Create a row and put some cells in it. Rows are 0 based.
    HSSFRow row = sheet.createRow((short)0);
    // Create a cell and put a value in it.
    HSSFCell cell = row.createCell((short)0);
    cell.setCellValue(1);
    // Or do it on one line.
    row.createCell((short)1).setCellValue(1.2);
    row.createCell((short)2).setCellValue("This is a string");
    row.createCell((short)3).setCellValue(true);
    // Write the output to a file
    FileOutputStream fileOut = new FileOutputStream("workbook.xls");
    wb.write(fileOut);
    fileOut.close();