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Excel spreadsheet in IE (did a Domino R5 Agent) - need to know how to have the agent create a second worksheet

Posted on 2006-06-14

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Agent name is "ExportCompleted.xls. In the Initialize section of my agent, I have the following code:

Sub Initialize
 Dim session As New NotesSession
 Dim db As NotesDatabase
 Dim excel As Variant
 Dim worksheet As Variant
 Dim cell As Variant
 Dim view As NotesView
 Dim nav As NotesViewNavigator
 Dim entry As NotesViewEntry
 Dim rowNum As Integer

 Print {Content-Type:application/vnd.ms-excel}
 Print {<HTML><HEAD>}
 Print {</HEAD>}
 Print {<BODY>}
 Print {<TABLE>}
 Print {<TR>}
 Print {<TD WIDTH="65">AI Change No</TD>}
 Print {<TD WIDTH="100">Status</TD>}
 Print {<TD WIDTH="90">Date Rcvd</TD>}
 Print {<TD WIDTH="120">Requestor</TD>}
 Print {<TD WIDTH="150">Platform</TD>}
 Print {<TD WIDTH="120">Servers Impacted</TD>}
 Print {<TD WIDTH="160">Applications Impacted</TD>}
 Print {<TD WIDTH="200">Type of Change</TD>}
 Print {<TD WIDTH="150">Red Watch</TD>}
 Print {<TD WIDTH="160">Start Date/Time</TD>}
 Print {<TD WIDTH="160">End Date/Time</TD>}
 Print {<TD WIDTH="80">Chg Ticket Rcvd</TD>}
 Print {<TD WIDTH="90">Risk</TD>}
 Print {<TD WIDTH="140">Mop/Backout Plan Received</TD>}
 Print {<TD WIDTH="400">Scheduling Status</TD>}
 Print {<TD WIDTH="140">NFC Created for REDWATCH Apps</TD>}
 Print {<TD WIDTH="120">Duration & Outage</TD>}
 Print {<TD WIDTH="400">Details of Change</TD>}
 Print {<TD WIDTH="120">Scheduling Prime</TD>}
 Print {<TD WIDTH="150">IBM/CSA Contact</TD>}

 Print {</TR>}

 rowNum = 2
' Current row of data

' Get a NotesViewNavigator from our view
 Set db = session.CurrentDatabase
 Set view = db.GetView("AI_CRCompleted")
 Set nav = view.CreateViewNav
 Set entry = nav.GetFirst

 ' Go through all the entries in the view
 While Not entry Is Nothing
 Print {<TR>}
 Print {<TD>} & entry.ColumnValues(2) & {</TD>}
 Print {<TD>} & entry.ColumnValues(3) & {</TD>}
 Print {<TD>} & entry.ColumnValues(4) & {</TD>}
 Print {<TD>} & Cstr(entry.ColumnValues(5)) & {</TD>}
 Print {<TD>} & Cstr(entry.ColumnValues(6)) & {</TD>}
 Print {<TD>} & Cstr(entry.ColumnValues(7)) & {</TD>}
 Print {<TD>} & Cstr(entry.ColumnValues(8)) & {</TD>}
 Print {<TD>} & Cstr(entry.ColumnValues(9)) & {</TD>}
 Print {<TD>} & Cstr(entry.ColumnValues(10)) & {</TD>}
 Print {<TD>} & Cstr(entry.ColumnValues(11)) & {</TD>}

 Print {<TD>} & Cstr(entry.ColumnValues(12)) & {</TD>}
 Print {<TD>} & Cstr(entry.ColumnValues(13)) & {</TD>}
 Print {<TD>} & Cstr(entry.ColumnValues(14)) & {</TD>}
 Print {<TD>} & Cstr(entry.ColumnValues(15)) & {</TD>}
 Print {<TD>} & Cstr(entry.ColumnValues(16)) & {</TD>}
 Print {<TD>} & Cstr(entry.ColumnValues(17)) & {</TD>}
 Print {<TD>} & Cstr(entry.ColumnValues(18)) & {</TD>}
 Print {<TD>} & Cstr(entry.ColumnValues(19)) & {</TD>}
 Print {<TD>} & Cstr(entry.ColumnValues(20)) & {</TD>}
 Print {<TD>} & Cstr(entry.ColumnValues(21)) & {</TD>}

 Print {</TR>}

 rowNum = rowNum + 1
 Set entry = nav.GetNext(entry)
 Wend


 Print "</TABLE></BODY></HTML>"

End Sub

My questions is that I have another agent that outputs "Cancelled requests" using the same columns. How can I have that report outputting to the same spreadsheet but in another worksheet when I run my agent?

The code for the cancelled requests is the same except the view name is different.

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Question by:mermaidink

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by:SysExpert

SysExpert earned 1000 total points

ID: 169081102006-06-14

From WHat I can see, you are using HTML to create an excel compatible table.

I do not see the use of the variables defined

Dim worksheet As Variant
Dim cell As Variant

Anywhere in your code.

I would say that via HTML it will NOT be possible, you will need to do it using either Excel VBA or COM objects in Excel or Notes.

I hope this helps !

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Expert Comment

by:marilyng

ID: 169081682006-06-14

Near as I can tell, you're creating your excel spreadsheet using html? And by using the content type, you're using the excel viewer in a browser to display an excel spreadsheet.

Since you're not activating the excel object directly, you can't tell it to create a workbook and then another worksheet, only to create another html page.

Is there a particular reason you did it this way? It is clever, I must admit :)

If you, instead, used the com objects, then adding a worksheet becomes really easy:

Something like this:

Set xlApp = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
      xlApp.Visible = False 'hide Excel while processing
      xlApp.Workbooks.Add
      xlApp.ReferenceStyle = 2
      Set xlSheet = xlApp.Workbooks(1).Worksheets(1)
      xlSheet.Name = "Lotus Export"
Set xlSheet2 = xlApp.Workbooks(1).Worksheets(2)
if xlSheet2 is nothing then
Set xlSheet2 = xlApp.Workbooks(1).Worksheets.add
end if
xlSheet2.Name = "Another Name"
--------

But I can be wrong, so wait for someone else to decide if you can add another worksheet using html.. hmm.. you could if you printed out to xml, and defined the second worksheet in the xml style sheet..

That's all I have!

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by:SysExpert

ID: 169082952006-06-14

See

http://www.experts-exchange.com/Applications/Email/Lotus_Notes_Domino/Q_20819577.html?query=Excel&topics=133

For more info

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Expert Comment

by:marilyng

ID: 169085182006-06-14

Sorry, Mike, I didn't refresh when I posted my comments, so yours weren't there.

I like Qwaletee's comment about the excel export posted at Q_20819577 : "That's some messed up code..." ;)

A Nice. clean example: http://www.bluestream.org/Domino/ExportToExcelViaNotes.htm

Here are others:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Applications/Email/Lotus_Notes_Domino/Q_21826566.html
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Applications/Email/Lotus_Notes_Domino/Q_21828050.html

Multiple Worksheets:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Applications/Email/Lotus_Notes_Domino/Q_20255907.html

Regards!

Author Comment

by:mermaidink

ID: 169113172006-06-15

The code I attached does work. It creates an excel sheet in the browser. I will have to look at those links in your comments and see how I can alter the code.

Author Comment

by:mermaidink

ID: 169117662006-06-15

From a link given by marilyng, I got to this page. My users are on the web and don't have Notes. This is why I wrote the initial one in HTML.
Would this type of solution (link below) have a coding ability to do multiple worksheet when exporting to excel via a web browser?
http://www.bluestream.org/Domino/ExportToExcelViaWeb.htm

I also looked closely at Q_20255907 and didn't know if that was for exporting to excel to the WEB...

Can someone clarify?

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by:marilyng

marilyng earned 1000 total points

ID: 169131122006-06-15

No, none of the links I posted, nor sysExpert's links will export to web. You would have to use the link examples to create your Excel objects and export Notes to excel, then use the Excel methods and properties to export EACH worksheet to an html file. You can probably do this all in Lotus Script.

Question - Why not just flash the Notes form or view on the web? users can be assigned an html name and password in a secondary address book, and can hit the web page via a browser using the internal server name: http://notesserver/database.nsf/Viewname?OpenView

The server has to be running the http task, and port 80 needs to be available to the internal users. (So, you don't have to enable port 80 externally if you don't want to)

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