Exporting access database to Excel .xls

Squall Leonhart · November 27th, 2003, 07:18 PM

Hi, guys.:)

Nice to meet you. First time be here.
Please take a look at following code.

Code:

<%@ Language="VBScript" %>
<% Option Explicit %>

<%
Dim objConnection
Dim objRecords
Dim objExcel
Dim strQuery
Dim i

Set objConnection = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")
objConnection.Open "DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ= " & Server.MapPath("tech_re.mdb")

Set objRecords = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
strQuery = "SELECT * FROM tblFAQ"
objRecords.Open strQuery, objConnection

Set objExcel = Server.CreateObject("Excel.Application")
objExcel.Workbooks.Open "DRIVER={Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls)};DBQ= " & Server.MapPath("excelface.xls")

'Defines the first row
i = 3

'Creates the column description
objExcel.ActiveSheet.Range("A" & i).Value = "ID"
objExcel.ActiveSheet.Range("B" & i).Value = "Category"
objExcel.ActiveSheet.Range("C" & i).Value = "Description"
objExcel.ActiveSheet.Range("C" & i).Value = "Document ID"
i = i + 1

'Fills columns for each recordset
While not objRecords.EOF
    objExcel.ActiveSheet.Range("A" & i).Value = objRecords("ID")
    objExcel.ActiveSheet.Range("B" & i).Value = objRecords("Category")
    objExcel.ActiveSheet.Range("C" & i).Value = objRecords("Description")
    objExcel.ActiveSheet.Range("D" & i).Value = objRecords("Doc_ID")
    objRecords.MoveNext
    i = i + 1
Wend

'Saves file and close Excel
objExcel.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs("excelface (" & Date & ").xls")
objExcel.ActiveWorkbook.Close
objExcel.Workbooks.Close
objExcel.Quit
%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
    <title>Create a pricelist with ASP</title>
</head>
<body>
    Pricelist has been created successfully.
</body>
</html>

I had written this code to export data from access database to excel .xls file. Problem arises from the following line of the code.

Code:

Set objExcel = Server.CreateObject("Excel.Application")

I am getting error like not validated excel object on the server something like that.

Greg Griffiths · November 27th, 2003, 08:12 PM

You may need to declare your variables AS something see the examples at :

http://www.greggriffiths.org/webdev/both/excel/

planoie · November 28th, 2003, 07:09 PM

If you would like to have the output show up in the browser (in IE) or load up into Excel without having to save the file on the server, you can output the rows and columns as a clean HTML table. Change the content type to "application/ms-excel" and the browser will call Excel to load it up. When you browse this in IE excel will load right up within IE. Also, you can add standard HTML formatting to the cells and they will show up in Excel.

Peter
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Work smarter, not harder.

Squall Leonhart · December 2nd, 2003, 02:58 PM

I have found the working code finally.

code:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<html>
<title>CodeAve.com(Create Excel on Server)</title>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<%
' Name of the access db being queried
accessdb="tech_re"

' Connection string to the access db
cn="DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};"
cn=cn & "DBQ=" & server.mappath(accessdb)

' Create a server recordset object
Set rs = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")

' Query the states table from the tech_re db
sql = "select * from tblFAQ "

' Execute the sql
rs.Open sql, cn

' Move to the first record
rs.MoveFirst

' Name for the ouput document
file_being_created= "state.xls"

' create a file system object
set fso = createobject("scripting.filesystemobject")

' create the text file - true will overwrite any previous files
' Writes the db output to a .xls file in the same directory
Set act = fso.CreateTextFile(server.mappath(file_being_creat ed), true)

' All non repetitive html on top goes here

act.WriteLine("<html><body>")
act.WriteLine("<table border=""1"">")
act.WriteLine("<tr><center>North American</center></tr>")
act.WriteLine("<tr><center>Price List</center></tr>")
act.WriteLine("<tr>")
act.WriteLine("<th nowrap>ID</th>")
act.WriteLine("<th nowrap>Category</th>")
act.WriteLine("<th nowrap>Description</th>")
act.WriteLine("<th nowrap>Doc_ID</th>")
act.WriteLine("</tr>")

' For net loop to create seven word documents from the record set
' change this to "do while not rs.eof" to output all the records
' and the corresponding next should be changed to loop also
While not rs.EOF

Act.WriteLine("<tr>")
act.WriteLine("<td align=""right"">" & rs("ID") & "</td>" )
act.WriteLine("<td align=""right"">" & rs("Category") & "</td>" )
act.WriteLine("<td align=""right"">" & rs("Description") & "</td>")
act.WriteLine("<td align=""right"">" & rs("Doc_ID") & "</td>")
act.WriteLine("</tr>")

' move to the next record
rs.movenext

' return to the top of the for - next loop
' change this to "loop" to output all the records
' and the corresponding for statement above should be changed also
wend

' All non repetitive html on top goes here
act.WriteLine("</table></body></html>")

' close the object (excel)
act.close

' Writes a link to the newly created excel in the browser
response.write "<a href='state.xls'>Price List</a> (.xls) has been created on " & now() & "<br>"
%>
</body>
</html>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This writes on .xls file.
But problem is when I wanted to write specific data into cells in specific location, how can I modify above code to do that?
For example, like this

code:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------act.WriteLine(A1:E3)= "Congraturations"--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This code doesn't work yet.

Greg Griffiths · December 2nd, 2003, 06:46 PM

check out http://www.greggriffiths.org/webdev/both/excel/

Squall Leonhart · December 2nd, 2003, 07:42 PM

Sorry, I checked out the site. But there isn't the method I was looking for.
As you can see above, I want the way not using Active X method.