Comments on: How to call Microsoft Excel from Oracle Reports/Forms 6i

By: Carlosdl

Carlosdl — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:32:16 +0000

Trying to post again, as it seems the editor removed the backslashes.

declare
	myCSV text_io.file_type;
	app PLS_INTEGER;
Begin
	myCSV := text_io.fopen(’c:test.csv’,'w’);
	text_io.put_line(myCSV,’test1,test2,test3′);
	text_io.fclose(myCSV);
	app := dde.app_begin(’C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice12EXCEL.EXE c:test.csv’,dde.App_Mode_Maximized);
end;

By: Carlosdl

Carlosdl — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 16:30:29 +0000

I have never generated XLS files, but I’m almost sure it can be done with the help of some library.
How about generating a CSV file, and open it with excel ? will that work for you ?

Using the TEXT_IO package you could write your program output to a file (csv), and after that, you could call Excel to open it, as described above.

For example:

Declare
myCSV text_io.file_type;
app PLS_INTEGER;
Begin
myCSV := text_io.fopen(’c:test.csv’,'w’);
text_io.put_line(myCSV,’test1,test2,test3′);
text_io.fclose(myCSV);
app := dde.app_begin(’C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice12EXCEL.EXE c:test.csv’,dde.App_Mode_Maximized);
end;

Some exception handlers need to be added…

By: Exporacle

Exporacle — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 08:46:19 +0000

thanks a lot for this

DDE is only open EXE file or specific file
but my problem is that to open when i call report through parameter output will be generated into excel form.give me this answer