ExcelWriter offers two approaches to generating, processing and manipulating Excel documents: ExcelTemplate and ExcelApplication. This tutorial will walk you through assigning the contents of a cell using ExcelTemplate and ExcelApplication.
[Download the Hello, World sample code]
Hello World with ExcelTemplate
ExcelWriter's ExcelTemplate approach allows you to write data to a template file that contains data markers. The data markers tell ExcelWriter where to bind specific sets of data. This tutorial will show you the basics on how to dynamically insert data into a worksheet using ExcelTemplate.
Setting up the template file
In the template file there is a single data marker %%=$DataValue
. All ExcelWriter data markers are prefaced with %%=
and the $
sign means that the data source for this data marker is 1-dimensional (e.g. 1-dimensional array or single value). DataValue
is the data marker ID we'll use to bind the data to this data marker.
New to data markers? Check out our [data markers guide].
SCREEN SHOT
The template file for Hello, World can be found under \templates\Hello World.xlsx
.
Writing the code
Hello World with ExcelApplication
Next Steps
Basic tutorials will walk through everything you need to know to generate reports. Advanced tutorials help take your reporting to the next level! The page Programmer's API Reference could not be found.[Help]
The page Help could not be found.