Writing MS Word Document from PL/SQL

Question

Hi,
I have an application which writes the data into EXCEL from PL/SQL. I am using follwong code to write the data.
Owa_Util.Mime_Header ( 'application/vnd.ms-excel', False);
htp.print('Content-Disposition:attachment;filename="'||v_report_title||'.xls"');
owa_Util.Http_Header_Close;
I want to know if there is any option to write the data into MS Word. If i am changing the Mime type to ms-word its generating a word document with the HTML equivalent of data. Looking forward for a quicked response.
Regards,
Dhirendra

Answer 1

I am not sure if you ever got your problem resolved, but I just wanted to share my experience that is is possible to have "server" side code which will get document in Oracle or another Doc. management syste, stream it back to the client and open it (I am talking about MS Office documents) in Office application or actually inside the browser (there is a little trick with the client Windows Explorer settings to enable this, otherwise it will open as an application).
It works perfectly also for TXT files, .TIFF, .jpg , .PDF etc.
You have to be correctly setting the MIME type depending on type of the application the files was created by (I can see you are doing that);
BUT your following line :
htp.print('Content-Disposition:attachment;filename="'||v_report_title||'.doc"');
==> is telling the client's browser that the file is coming over as attachment and therefore it will always prompt the user with OPEN, SAVE, CANCEL.
Here is a snippet of my code example [ writting the file into local temp dir]:
Response.AppendHeader("ContentEncoding", ctype);
// set the final Content Type
Response.ContentType = ctype;
// stream and write the file out
Response.BinaryWrite(bytBytes);
Response.End();