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Sai Salveru
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Hi,

I have generated an hold file and saved in excel format(In others folder). I want to call this excel file from fex file or html file.

I have used
-HTMLFORM
Its giving the report in HTML format.

But the same thing if i call PDF file, i am able to open the PDF report.

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Webfocus 7.1.4
 
Posts: 2 | Registered: May 23, 2008Report This Post
Sai Salveru
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I HAVE GENERATED EXCEL FILE USING THE BELOW CODE..

TABLE FILE CAR
PRINT
COUNTRY
CAR
MODEL
BODYTYPE
WHERE RECORDLIMIT EQ 10
ON TABLE HOLD AS SAI_EXL1 FORMAT EXCEL
END

THE EXCEL FILE NAME SAI_EXL1.XLS IS SAVED UNDER OTHER FOLDER.

NOW I WANT TO OPEN THIS SAI_EXL1.XLS FROM A FEX FILE.
PLEASE LET ME KNOW HOW THIS CAN BE DONE.


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Posts: 2 | Registered: May 23, 2008Report This Post
Danny-SRL
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Sai,
Try this in your focexec:
  
!"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\excel" C:\path_where_xl_saved\SAI_EXL1.XLS

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12 is usually where Excel is installed


Daniel
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Francis Mariani
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This is another way, the location of Excel is not required:

<html>
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="2; URL=/approot/temp/book1.xls">
</head>
</html>


In IE, the Excel file opens in the IE window. In Firefox, the file is downloaded and then opened in Excel.


Francis


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Waz
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To use -HTMLFORM you must specify the type and location.

FILEDEF SAI_EXL1 DISK OTHERS/sai_exl1.xht
SET HTMLFORMTYPE = XLS
-HTMLFORM SAI_EXL1


If you created the XLS in the same fex, you may not need the FILEDEF.
If the xls is not in an APP directory, the FILEDEF will need to change to a path.
Check the extension of the xls file, is it xls or xht.


Waz...

Prod:WebFOCUS 7.6.10/8.1.04Upgrade:WebFOCUS 8.2.07OS:LinuxOutputs:HTML, PDF, Excel, PPT
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DMoses
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I keep getting a 404 resource not found error. Is there anyone who can help?
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0; url=baseapp/cat_work_data.xlsx">
</head>
</html>


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FP Mod Chuck
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Dmoses

Try this....

CONTENT="2; URL=/approot/baseapp/cat_work_data.xlsx">


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Francis Mariani
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<html>
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="2; URL=/approot/baseapp/Book1.xls">
</head>
</html>

This does still work after ten years. As Chuck mentioned, approot must be specified. The 2 in the CONTENT attribute means refresh after 2 seconds.

Also important is that the file must be on the web server (if it is different than the reporting server.


Francis


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