Bob Dively

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• ColdFusion Component Wrapper For POI To Read And Write Excel Files

  Posted on Mar 5, 2010 at 1:18 PM

  @Eli, look at the write_custom_tags.cfm example file in Ben's zip. Toward the bottom he uses a cfcontent tag to send the file directly to the user's browser.... read more »

• ColdFusion Component Wrapper For POI To Read And Write Excel Files

  Posted on Mar 5, 2010 at 9:51 AM

  @Eli, just copy the poi directory from Ben's zip file into your custom tags directory. That's all there is to it.... read more »

• ColdFusion Component Wrapper For POI To Read And Write Excel Files

  Posted on Mar 5, 2010 at 9:37 AM

  @Eli, I work with CFMX7 instead of CF8 but I believe that CF8 ships with a version of POI that works with Ben's code, so AFAIK there's nothing you have to do POI-wise. I just dropped Ben's code in my custom tags directory and it worked. What are you stuck on?... read more »

• ColdFusion Component Wrapper For POI To Read And Write Excel Files

  Posted on Mar 5, 2010 at 8:46 AM

  @Eli, I use Ben's code and POI to generate files that are opened without issue by Excel2007 users. Are you naming your files with an .xlsx extension? If so, try switching to .xls.... read more »

• ColdFusion Component Wrapper For POI To Read And Write Excel Files

  Posted on Nov 20, 2009 at 9:41 AM

  @bill, You're right - removing code is definitely not the best solution. Anyway, putting in IsDefined( "VARIABLES.RowHeight" ) won't work because it evaluates false and thus the row height code wrapped by the cfif doesn't execute.... read more »

• ColdFusion Component Wrapper For POI To Read And Write Excel Files

  Posted on Nov 20, 2009 at 9:38 AM

  @ben, Thanks for the response, Ben. I do indeed have the latest version of the code.... read more »

• ColdFusion Component Wrapper For POI To Read And Write Excel Files

  Posted on Nov 19, 2009 at 11:06 AM

  Ben, first a huge thank you for this - it's 100 kinds of awesome. I've been trying to get something like this going for literally years. When using the tag-based stuff, if I define a style class with a height attribute and apply that style to a row, an error is thrown from row 127 in row.cfm: Eleme... read more »