Hello Peter,
A. If you expect that your clients can create an Excel workbook according
to the Excel template in their client machine by clicking on a button in
the web page, the following two solutions may help you:
Solution 1. have a link to the template file in your web page.
When you clients click on the link, a "File download" dialog appears. If
the client click on "Open", an excel workbook will be created according to
the template, and be opened in the web browser (if the client is using
Office 2003), or in Excel (if the client is using Office 2007). If the
client click on "Save", he/she can save the template to his local directory.
The weakness of this solution: there is an unavoidable "File download"
dialog.
Solution 2. Write Office automation code in the client script, to automate
the client Office app to create and open a workbook according to the Excel
template.
Sample vbscript
:
Dim app
set app = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
app.Workbooks.Open("URL TO THE .xlt FILE IN THE SHARED FOLDER")
app.Visible = True
The weakness of this solution: though this solution avoids the "File
download" dialog, it requires a setting in the client's IE:
"Initialize and script ActiveX control not marked as safe"
Otherwise, the script fails for sake of security.
B. If you expect to populate the Excel Template to a web page, you would
need to use Office automation on the server side. For instance, in asp.net
code, we automate Excel in the server to create a workbook based on the
template, save it as html, and embed the html content to our web page.
However, as Mark Rae said, Office automation in server app like ASP.NET is
NOT recommended. Microsoft does not support this scenario.
Regards,
Jialiang Ge (ji****@online.microsoft.com, remove 'online.')
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