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: 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 3: Run ColdFusion code that creates Excel file
Execute the following ColdFusion code that creates Excel file programmatically.
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Tutorial 03
This tutorial shows how to create an Excel file that has
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Tutorial 03<br>
----------<br><!-- Create an instance of the class that creates Excel files --><cfobject type="java"class="EasyXLS.ExcelDocument"name="workbook"action="CREATE"><!-- Create two sheets --><cfset ret = workbook.easy_addWorksheet("First tab")><cfset ret = workbook.easy_addWorksheet("Second tab")><!-- Create Excel file -->
Writing file C:\Samples\Tutorial03 - create Excel file.xlsx<br><cfset ret = workbook.easy_WriteXLSXFile("C:\Samples\Tutorial03 - create Excel file.xlsx")><!-- Confirm the creation 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()>
