To download the trial version of EasyXLS Excel Library, press the below button:
If you already own a license key, you may login and download EasyXLS from your account.
Install the downloaded EasyXLS installer for v8.6 or earlier.
Step 2: License file setup
Step required for EasyXLS v9.0 or later.
If you are using a trial, generate a trial license file from EasyXLS trials page. The trial license is valid for 30-days.
If you own a license key, you may login to the account that purchased the license and generate the license file from: https://www.easyxls.com/my-orders
Setup the license file into your project using these guidelines.
Step 3: Add EasyXLS library to CLASSPATH in ColdFusion Administator
EasyXLS.jar must be included to class path for Java runtime environment.
EasyXLS.jar can be found: - Inside the downloaded archive at Step 1 for EasyXLS v9.0 or later - Under installation path for EasyXLS v8.6 or earlier, in "Lib" folder.
Another solution is to add EasyXLS.jar to "lib" folder from ColdFusion installation path.
Step 4: Run ColdFusion code that creates conditional formatting in Excel cells
Execute the following ColdFusion code that exports an Excel file and sets conditional formatting to a range. The first step is to set the range where the conditional formatting will be applied, then set the formatting options.
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Tutorial 14
This tutorial shows how to create an Excel file in ColdFusion
having a sheet and conditional formatting for cell ranges.
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--><!-- Constants Classes --><cfobject type="java"class="EasyXLS.Constants.DataType"name="DataType"action="CREATE"><cfobject type="java"class="EasyXLS.Constants.ConditionalFormatting"name="ConditionalFormatting"action="CREATE"><cfobject type="java"class="EasyXLS.Constants.FontSettings"name="FontSettings"action="CREATE"><cfobject type="java"class="EasyXLS.Constants.Border"name="Border"action="CREATE"><cfobject type="java"class="java.awt.Color"name="Color"action="CREATE">
Tutorial 14<br>
----------<br><!-- Create an instance of the class that exports Excel --><cfobject type="java"class="EasyXLS.ExcelDocument"name="workbook"action="CREATE"><!-- Add a worksheet --><cfset ret = workbook.easy_addWorksheet("Sheet1")><!-- Get the table of data for the first worksheet --><cfset xlsTab = workbook.easy_getSheet("Sheet1")><cfset xlsTable = xlsTab.easy_getExcelTable()><!-- Add data in cells --><cfloop from="0"to="5"index="i"><cfloop from="0"to="3"index="j"><cfif ((i lt 2) and (j lt 2))><cfset xlsTable.easy_getCell(evaluate(i), evaluate(j)).setValue("12")><cfelseif ((j eq 2) and (i lt 2))><cfset xlsTable.easy_getCell(evaluate(i), evaluate(j)).setValue("1000")><cfelse><cfset xlsTable.easy_getCell(evaluate(i), evaluate(j)).setValue("9")></cfif><cfset xlsTable.easy_getCell(evaluate(i), evaluate(j)).setDataType(DataType.NUMERIC)></cfloop></cfloop><!-- Set conditional formatting --><cfset xlsTab.easy_addConditionalFormatting("A1:C3", ConditionalFormatting.OPERATOR_BETWEEN,
"=9", "=11", true, true, Color.RED)><!-- Set another conditional formatting --><cfset xlsTab.easy_addConditionalFormatting("A6:C6", ConditionalFormatting.OPERATOR_BETWEEN,
"=COS(PI())+2", "", Color.ORANGE)><cfset xlsTab.easy_getConditionalFormattingAt("A6:C6").getConditionAt(0).setConditionType(
ConditionalFormatting.CONDITIONAL_FORMATTING_TYPE_EVALUATE_FORMULA)><!-- Export Excel file -->
Writing file C:\Samples\Tutorial14 - conditional formatting in Excel.xlsx<br><cfset ret = workbook.easy_WriteXLSXFile("C:\Samples\Tutorial14 - conditional formatting in Excel.xlsx")><!-- Confirm export of Excel file --><cfset sError = workbook.easy_getError()><cfif (sError is "")><cfoutput>
File successfully created.
</cfoutput><cfelse><cfoutput>
Error encountered: #sError#
</cfoutput></cfif><!-- Dispose memory --><cfset workbook.Dispose()>
