dataTable Excel export

[andersun]

Sergey,
Do you plan to implement excel export feature (in client state saving mode) in dataTable

It'll be great!

[sergeysmirnov]

Could you explain what do you mean please.

[moldovan]

I'm thinking, myfaces has excelExport - Tag

Maybe, this can help you!

[andersun]

I mean - implement some component like in MyFaces Sandbox:

<s:excelExport for="table_id">
 <h:commandButton />
</s:excelExport>

on click button allows exporting HtmlDataTable contents as an excel file

!!However, Sandbox excel export component works only with server side state saving, but not CLIENT (it requires AJAX)

[amitev]

My opinion is that this component is not needed. You can implement that yourself more flexible with 20-30 sloc.

[hispeedsurfer]

hi amitev,

have you an example exporting a datatable in a environment with Facelets and JSF 1.2 (using Seam 2.0Beta) or maybe a hint.


Thanks

[lmk]

you can see:


http://wiki.apache.org/myfaces/Exporting_DataTable_To_MS-Excel

[chris.simons]

But that involves using Tomahak; yet another JAR, not to mention POI and then HTMLParser.