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
jjorgensen626
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Jump to Postif 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 …
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Arizona Web
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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?
jjorgensen626
30
Junior Poster in Training
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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<title>NCL: Home</title>
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text-decoration: none;
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font-family: verdana;
font:900
}
a:visited{color:ffffff}
a:hover{color:#00CC00}
a.gray{color:575757; font-size:9px; font-family:verdana; text-decoration:underline}
a.gray:visited{color:575757}
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<%=(userName.Fields.Item("Fname").Value)%>, here are your current hours loged:<br>
</font> </p>
<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>
<td><div align="center" class="style5">Hours</div></td>
<td><div align="center" class="style5">Date</div></td>
<td><div align="center" class="style5">Comment</div></td>
<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>
<td><%=(Recordset1.Fields.Item("info").Value)%></td>
<td><div align="center"><A HREF="editHours.asp?<%= MM_keepURL & MM_joinChar(MM_keepURL) & "hoursID=" & Recordset1.Fields.Item("hoursID").Value %>" class="gray">EDIT</A></div></td>
</tr>
<%
Repeat1__index=Repeat1__index+1
Repeat1__numRows=Repeat1__numRows-1
Recordset1.MoveNext()
Wend
%>
</table>
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<%
Recordset1.Close()
Set Recordset1 = Nothing
%>
<%
userName.Close()
Set userName = Nothing
%>
jjorgensen626
30
Junior Poster in Training
Any Clues?
Moritz
0
Newbie Poster
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
DaveSW
15
Master Poster
have you googled this? There's a few useful links there:
http://www.google.com/search?q=asp+generate+csv+file&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
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