1. Paul Mathieu
  2. Beta Testing
  3. Thursday, 21 November 2019 17:39 PM UTC

Will the datawindow SaveAS to excel use sheets? Saving to excel without excel installed on PC.

Sivaprakash BKR Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Saturday, 23 November 2019 05:01 AM UTC
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Currently PB saves the data into an excel sheet, not the dw/ds to excel, with formatting and other features.  May be dw2xls utility could do that.  I use that utility to save dw to excel sheets, with some limitations it's working fine.  [Limitations are mentioned in their website itself ].   

I feel appeon could do add this feature in future releases of PB. 

Happiness Always
BKR Sivaprakash

 

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  1. Sivaprakash BKR
  2. Monday, 25 November 2019 12:21 PM UTC
I didn't understand what he means by use sheets. Now I'm clear.
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  1. Sivaprakash BKR
  2. Friday, 29 November 2019 07:34 AM UTC
Miguel Leeuwe,

Don't know what he means by

Conversion of a set of Datawindows and Datastores to separate spreadsheets of Excel workbook.

in the features list of dw2xls tool.



Looks like export to separate sheet is now possible.



< From website>

Features:

Support of Freeform, Grid, Tabular, N-UP, Group, Crosstab, Composite, TreeView and Nested DW styles

Support of Text, Column, Expression types of DW objects

Support of DropDownDW, DropDownListBox, Edit, Edit with Code Table and EditMask edit styles of fields

Conversion of a set of Datawindows and Datastores to separate spreadsheets of Excel workbook

Support of all data types

Support of all kinds of text and data formatting

OLE-components are not required

Excel 97/2007/2010 (XLS/XLSX(OOXML)) format support

Easy-to-use program interface

Good technical support.



FYI.

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  1. Sivaprakash BKR
  2. Saturday, 30 November 2019 00:51 AM UTC
See the documentation. Seems excel sheets could be named and multiple dws could be exported to different sheets.

http://desta.com.ua/dw2xls/doc/of_save_dw2sheet.htm

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Miguel Leeuwe Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Friday, 22 November 2019 02:04 AM UTC
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I deleted an answer here about not being able to SaveAs() to Excel when Excel is not installed, but .. it turns out there's something else preventing me to save any change, sorry about that. I just tested it and you CAN save as Excel, even when it's not installed.

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Miguel Leeuwe Accepted Answer Pending Moderation
  1. Thursday, 21 November 2019 19:19 PM UTC
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Please explain "use sheets". It'll save a file, being a workbook with one sheet, if I'm not mistaken.

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  1. Miguel Leeuwe
  2. Friday, 22 November 2019 16:34 PM UTC
Maybe the only way out, is to do an enhancement / feature request. But I'm not sure if Appeon would be interested.
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  1. Paul Mathieu
  2. Saturday, 23 November 2019 01:11 AM UTC
The idea is run a report, save the datawindow as excel on one sheet, save the criteria for the report on another sheet.

Maybe do a CSV and append the criteria. I will look at the XLSX!

OLE needs excel to set a ConnectToObject("excel.application")

Thank you

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  1. Miguel Leeuwe
  2. Saturday, 23 November 2019 04:25 AM UTC
Yes, indeed you'd need Excel. YW.
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