Re: Exporting data from an Orbeon Form to an Excel spreadsheet

Posted by Alessandro Vernet on
URL: https://discuss.orbeon.com/Exporting-data-from-an-Orbeon-Form-to-an-Excel-spreadsheet-tp1575094p1580348.html

Alan,

Like Mats said, you can generate the Office XML format, and we did
this successfully for a couple of projects we did here. If generating
CSV is an option, you might want to consider that, as it will make
your job much simpler.

Alex

On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 6:33 AM, Leavy, Alan <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Hi,
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> I’m new to this mailing list and I already have a question J
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> I have a form which pulls annual expense records from a database. The
> populated model instance looks like this:
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> <expenses ex="565.00" xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
> xmlns:p="http://www.orbeon.com/oxf/pipeline"
> xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
> xmlns:oxf="http://www.orbeon.com/oxf/processors"
> xmlns:sql="http://orbeon.org/oxf/xml/sql">
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>   <year>2009</year>
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>   <wm_id>RWWM00011</wm_id>
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>   <wm_name>cafekiwm_name>
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>   <fb_id>RWFB00011fb_id>
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>   <local_currency>RWF</local_currency>
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>     <section name="CapEx Loan Expenses" currency="usd">
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>       <item name="Interest" id="C9224C6A-50E1-4081-BCAA-EF80D0604960"
> advance="0">100.00
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>       </item>
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>       <item name="Principal" id="BEA45230-13CE-49A8-B25F-FD5FFF02329F"
> advance="0">100.00
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>       </item>
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>     </section>
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>     <section name="Marketing / Credit Expenses" currency="usd">
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>       <item name="Service" id="B915A8A0-651C-4008-9701-9230F8D6B9D9"
> advance="0">2000.00
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>       </item>
>
>       <item name="Working Capital Fee Cost"
> id="B18A7788-10C6-4864-B462-792D988EF12F" advance="0">2000.00
>
>       </item>
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>       <item name="Working Capital Interest Cost"
> id="39A5BE43-4E92-4ED8-AFA6-1DB6122FAC10" advance="0">2000.00
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>       </item>
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>     </section>
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>     <section name="Wetmill Expenses" currency="rwf">
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>          <!--AND SO ON -->
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>       </section>
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>     </section>
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> </expenses>
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> I’d like to the form user to be able to export this to an Excel spreadsheet,
> with totals for each section.
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> What’s the best way to do this sort of thing in Orbeon forms?
>
>  I’ve seen in the Orbeon documentation that there was an Excel processor
> (POI library) but that this has been deprecated. There’s a reference to
> other internal documentation on Converters
> [http://www.orbeon.com/orbeon/doc/processors-converters#xls-converters] but
> Excel is not specifically mentioned.
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> I’m guessing that the answer might be to use an XLST pipeline to convert the
> model instance into something compatible with the Microsoft XML Spreadsheet
> schema.
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> If this is the case, can anyone suggest any resources / examples to help me
> on my way?
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> Any help would be appreciated.
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> Regards,
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>     Alan.
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