Uploading Excel Documents

Question

Hello! :)
I'm working on a dashboard that requires me to "upload" or "attach" an excel document that users may choose to open or save. I've tried using a link and so far it worked well with .doc, .txt, and .pdf documents. When the link is clicked, the download dialog box opens and the document can be viewed without problem. Unfortunately, this did not work with an excel document.
Does BIEE have a restriction to excel documents? Is there a specific way for me to do this? This may just be a simple problem. Hope someone could help.
Thank you! :)

Answer 1

Hello Kum,
One approach is that immediately after uploading the initial file, put the loop at 'data_tab' and pass the last field which contains the file path and name and type of the file.
For this purpose you've to use:
1.) Variables for passing the vaule to FM (file name and type)
2.) You need to use the string handing in order to get the type of file format from the file path from the 'data_tab' from 1st call
Once you get the field containint the filename and path using string handling you can 1st measure the lenght of the full string using 'strlen' command and then check the string and check for the '.' and last 3 characters which is the format in general
example:
filename = 'C:\UPLOAD\UPLOAD1.TXT'.
STRING = STRLEN( filename ).
CAL2 = STRING - 4.
TYPE1 = FILENAME+CAL2(STRING).
IF FILENAME+CAL2(1) EQ '.'.
CAL2 = CAL2 + 1.
TYPE3 = FILENAME+CAL2(STRING).
ENDIF.
Pass the Filename and TYPE2 as filepath and type.
One thing to remember there might be a performance problem since you said there are thousands of file for upload during one session.
/Manik