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 exports data to XLS file
Execute the following ColdFusion code that exports data to XLS file.
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Tutorial 28
This tutorial shows how to export data to XLS file that has
multiple sheets in ColdFusion. The first sheet is filled with data.
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--><!-- Constants Classes --><cfobject type="java"class="EasyXLS.Constants.DataType"name="DataType"action="CREATE">
Tutorial 28<br>
----------<br><!-- Create an instance of the class that exports Excel files, having two sheets --><cfobjecttype="java"class="EasyXLS.ExcelDocument"name="workbook"action="CREATE"><!-- Set the sheet names --><cfset ret = workbook.easy_addWorksheet("First tab")><cfset ret = workbook.easy_addWorksheet("Second tab")><!-- Get the table of data for the first worksheet --><cfset xlsFirstTable = workbook.easy_getSheetAt(0).easy_getExcelTable()><!-- Add data in cells for report header --><cfloop from="0"to="4"index="column"><cfset xlsFirstTable.easy_getCell(0, evaluate(column)).setValue("Column " & evaluate(column + 1))><cfset xlsFirstTable.easy_getCell(0, evaluate(column)).setDataType(DataType.STRING)></cfloop><cfset ret = xlsFirstTable.easy_getRowAt(0).setHeight(30)><!-- Add data in cells for report values --><cfloop from="0"to="99"index="row"><cfloop from="0"to="4"index="column"><cfset xlsFirstTable.easy_getCell(evaluate(row + 1), evaluate(column)).setValue(
"Data " & evaluate(row + 1) & ", " & evaluate(column + 1))><cfset xlsFirstTable.easy_getCell(evaluate(row + 1), evaluate(column)).setDataType(DataType.STRING)></cfloop></cfloop><!-- Set column widths --><cfset xlsFirstTable.setColumnWidth(0, 70)><cfset xlsFirstTable.setColumnWidth(1, 100)><cfset xlsFirstTable.setColumnWidth(2, 70)><cfset xlsFirstTable.setColumnWidth(3, 100)><cfset xlsFirstTable.setColumnWidth(4, 70)><!-- Export the XLS file -->
Writing file C:\Samples\Tutorial28 - export XLS file.xls<br><cfset ret = workbook.easy_WriteXLSFile("C:\Samples\Tutorial28 - export XLS file.xls")><!-- 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()>
