Does anyone know how to do this? I have tables that are generated from asp that i would like to allow clients to download to a .csv file to their pc.

Thanks

if you alter the same script that generate the tables, get rid of the <table> and </table>, get rid of all </tr>, replace all instances of </td><td> with a tab, and replace all instances of <tr> wit ha line break, you have a properly formatted csv file (provided there are no tabs or line breaks in your data). You can then make a button that calls a script that generate the file for download.

Do you know how to create headers that force a download?

Excuse me for the bloat, I'm using dreamweaver for the asp pages. Here is the actual code for what I am trying to do. This page will display hours so far entered for the user that is logged in. It is using a session variable to know what data to pull. I want to be able to have a link that will allow the client to download this information in excel.

I have attached a sample of the results page.

Thanks for the help.

<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="1252"%> 
<!--#include file="../Connections/conn.asp" -->
<%
Dim Recordset1__MMColParam
Recordset1__MMColParam = "1"
If (Session("userid") <> "") Then 
  Recordset1__MMColParam = Session("userid")
End If
%>
<%
Dim Recordset1
Dim Recordset1_numRows

Set Recordset1 = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
Recordset1.ActiveConnection = MM_conn_STRING
Recordset1.Source = "SELECT * FROM hoursLog WHERE userID = " + Replace(Recordset1__MMColParam, "'", "''") + " ORDER BY dateAC DESC"
Recordset1.CursorType = 0
Recordset1.CursorLocation = 2
Recordset1.LockType = 1
Recordset1.Open()

Recordset1_numRows = 0
%>

<%
Dim userName__MMColParam
userName__MMColParam = "1"
If (Session("userid") <> "") Then 
  userName__MMColParam = Session("userid")
End If
%>
<%
Dim userName
Dim userName_numRows

Set userName = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
userName.ActiveConnection = MM_conn_STRING
userName.Source = "SELECT Fname, Lname FROM Users WHERE UserID = " + Replace(userName__MMColParam, "'", "''") + ""
userName.CursorType = 0
userName.CursorLocation = 2
userName.LockType = 1
userName.Open()

userName_numRows = 0
%>
<%
Dim Repeat1__numRows
Dim Repeat1__index

Repeat1__numRows = 15
Repeat1__index = 0
Recordset1_numRows = Recordset1_numRows + Repeat1__numRows
%>
<%
Dim MM_paramName 
%>
<%
' *** Go To Record and Move To Record: create strings for maintaining URL and Form parameters

Dim MM_keepNone
Dim MM_keepURL
Dim MM_keepForm
Dim MM_keepBoth

Dim MM_removeList
Dim MM_item
Dim MM_nextItem

' create the list of parameters which should not be maintained
MM_removeList = "&index="
If (MM_paramName <> "") Then
  MM_removeList = MM_removeList & "&" & MM_paramName & "="
End If

MM_keepURL=""
MM_keepForm=""
MM_keepBoth=""
MM_keepNone=""

' add the URL parameters to the MM_keepURL string
For Each MM_item In Request.QueryString
  MM_nextItem = "&" & MM_item & "="
  If (InStr(1,MM_removeList,MM_nextItem,1) = 0) Then
    MM_keepURL = MM_keepURL & MM_nextItem & Server.URLencode(Request.QueryString(MM_item))
  End If
Next

' add the Form variables to the MM_keepForm string
For Each MM_item In Request.Form
  MM_nextItem = "&" & MM_item & "="
  If (InStr(1,MM_removeList,MM_nextItem,1) = 0) Then
    MM_keepForm = MM_keepForm & MM_nextItem & Server.URLencode(Request.Form(MM_item))
  End If
Next

' create the Form + URL string and remove the intial '&' from each of the strings
MM_keepBoth = MM_keepURL & MM_keepForm
If (MM_keepBoth <> "") Then 
  MM_keepBoth = Right(MM_keepBoth, Len(MM_keepBoth) - 1)
End If
If (MM_keepURL <> "")  Then
  MM_keepURL  = Right(MM_keepURL, Len(MM_keepURL) - 1)
End If
If (MM_keepForm <> "") Then
  MM_keepForm = Right(MM_keepForm, Len(MM_keepForm) - 1)
End If

' a utility function used for adding additional parameters to these strings
Function MM_joinChar(firstItem)
  If (firstItem <> "") Then
    MM_joinChar = "&"
  Else
    MM_joinChar = ""
  End If
End Function
%>
<%
Repeat1__numRows = -1
Repeat1__index = 0
rsLocations_numRows = rsLocations_numRows + Repeat1__numRows
%>

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            <table width="90%" border="1" align="center" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="2" bordercolor="#AE760C">
              <tr bgcolor="#D69417"> 
                <td><div align="center" class="style5">Location</div></td>
                <td><div align="center" class="style5">Activity</div></td>
                <td><div align="center" class="style5">Job</div></td>
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                <td><div align="center" class="style5">Edit</div></td>
              </tr>
              <% While ((Repeat1__numRows <> 0) AND (NOT Recordset1.EOF)) %>
              <tr bgcolor="#F7EC82"> 
                <td><%=(Recordset1.Fields.Item("location").Value)%></td>
                <td><%=(Recordset1.Fields.Item("activity").Value)%></td>
                <td><%=(Recordset1.Fields.Item("job").Value)%></td>
                <td><div align="center"><%=(Recordset1.Fields.Item("hours").Value)%></div></td>
                <td><%=(Recordset1.Fields.Item("dateAC").Value)%></td>
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  Repeat1__index=Repeat1__index+1
  Repeat1__numRows=Repeat1__numRows-1
  Recordset1.MoveNext()
Wend
%>
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%>
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userName.Close()
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Hi jjorgensen626,

maybe I can help, but I have only done that in jsp-pages.

To export a table, I have a button, which opens a new jsp-Page, just call it excel.jsp. In excel.jsp I set the following values of the Response-object:

response.setContentType("application/binary");
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=\""+ strFile +"\";");

Afterwards, I open the connection to the database, get the ResultSet and instead of writing it into a table, I use a OutputStream, which I get from the Response-Object:
OutputStream ostr = response.getOutputStream();


For every col I add a ";" after the colvalue, after every row I add a "\n" for a linebreak.

Resultset rs = dbcon.createStatement().executeQuery(query);
while (rs.next()){
ostr.write((rs.getString("col1")+";").toBytes());
ostr.write((rs.getString("col2")+";").toBytes());
ostr.write("\n".toBytes());
}
rs.close()........


Maybe this helps and you can change it so it works in asp, c#/.net.

best regards,
Moritz

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