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FatRod
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posted posted 09-19-2003 12:28

do anyone know of a very simple solution to display an excel work sheet in a layer without saving the excel sheet as a webpage. i.e The website owner will upload a xls file to the webserver every week and the webpage will import all the data and display it in a similar layout upon call. I have searched for answer but all solutions seem to involve technologies such as POI /Java ect.

Emperor
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posted posted 09-19-2003 15:11

FatRod: That sounds like a rather messy way of doing things but........

I would imagine that ASP has some ways o dealing with this kind of thing. That said I suspect most server side languages could probably process the spreadsheet but it would be better if it was exported as something sim ple like CSV.

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FatRod
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posted posted 09-19-2003 16:45

I have found a solution (and it was ASP) but also discovered that this would apparently be a very bad idea.

"ASP is meant to handle multiple users, Excel is not so you will experience problems if you put this on a server that handles multiple users"

do you think making the XL file read only would make a difference?

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posted posted 09-19-2003 18:09

Well, first of all - what server side languages do you have available on your server, and which are you familiar with?

Either way, you would most likely want to export the file as a CSV file first, as Emperor suggested. Makes things much easier to work with.

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posted posted 09-19-2003 18:19

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posted posted 09-19-2003 18:21

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